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Old 06-Jan-2006, 12:45
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Am I the First Sucker of 2006 ?
In a conversation (you guessed it ... in a pub) over Christmas a friend mentioned that there had been a recent development in crash helmet technology. The development projected an image of what was behind you onto you your visor by way of a series of periscope type mirrors running through the helmet.

Am I the first (and probably biggest) sucker of 2006 or has anyone else heard of this ? I suspect I was the unwitting recipient of the first wind up of the year. If such a device exists does anyone have any details - manufacturer, cost, distributor, experience of using one, etc, etc.

If this is pure fantasy then please ignore this thread and I will skulk off into obscurity for being so easily taken in !!

Happy New Year everyone.

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Old 06-Jan-2006, 12:48
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It exists, no idea if it's the same one, but I've seen some photo's of it ages ago now, didn't look fantastic but it worked I guess
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Old 06-Jan-2006, 12:48
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It's not a projection as such as far as I'm aware, it's just a series of mirrors that allow you to look up and behind yourself from the top of your visor, there was a concept picture in MCN a while back.
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Old 06-Jan-2006, 12:49
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there is actually something like this around yes. someone posted up a pic a while back.
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Old 06-Jan-2006, 13:14
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I'm told that a major uk lid distributor tested it and threw it out.
Don't know if anyone else has taken it on tho??
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Old 06-Jan-2006, 13:24
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It was called revu and it made me feel sick when I tried it....total pants
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Old 06-Jan-2006, 13:30
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thats the one Berto, was around about 18 months ago at the 04 NEC bike show, they had 3 or 4 lids that they were letting visitors try ... very distracting ... but I guess you'd get used to it ....
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Old 06-Jan-2006, 13:48
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Only after running into folk cos you had to take your eyes off where you were going....Head up display would be good laugh though
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Old 06-Jan-2006, 14:03
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I had seen it before on a bicycle helmet, it is called Reevu. Here is a pic of the m/cycle helmet.

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Old 06-Jan-2006, 14:03
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I tried one at Ally Pally last year - I found it even less useful than the mirrors on a 749....
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