Our good friends at Motoblog.it have revealed to us what the updated REEVU helmet looks like with shots taken during this years Milan show, which in my opinion looks much better than the original REEVU MSX-1 Prototype seen in loitering around European news agencies this time LAST year.
If you don’t recall this marvel of helmet engineering, REEVU is the helmet that gives the user the superpower of nearly 360 degree vision… Kinda like Triclops, and the whole system uses NO electronics, but instead a complex array of mirrors to project the rear image to a little mirror sitting at eyebrow level in the front on the helmet.
What’s the importance of a rearview system in a full face helmet? Well, through urban legend or actual experience, most riders have heard stories about someone being stopped at a light behind someone else when suddenly another vehicle comes unbridled over the hill to turn the bike and possibly the rider, (though I have also heard stories of a tingly spider-sense saving riders in this situation) into the rich, creamy center of a steel oreo cookie… Well… I’ll say a Paul Newman’s Newman-O’s, since they are transfat free.
The only downside right now appears to be, what Motoblog.it calls, a prohibitively high price of around $490 EURO. Does that REALLY amount to $650 USD when it’s all said and done? I guess we’ll have to see. Reevu, a UK company, was in the process of selecting a US distributor last I checked and I imagine we’ll start seeing them around these parts by Q2 of 2007.
***UPDATE***
The new models are the MSXP and the JET (prototype). You should check out CyberScooter for some more shots and info on these two.
8. December 2006 at 6:15 pm
GREAT! That’s just MORE glass to clean. I need to buy stock in Windex!
8. December 2006 at 6:53 pm
yeah, i thought it sounded like a great idea last year, but since then I’ve had enough time to consider how badly a bunch of mirrors inside a helmet would fog up.
11. December 2006 at 1:01 pm
From what I remember, the mirror thing is supposed to be sealed at both ends. Of course, over time those seals could go bad and condensation could make its way in.
13. December 2006 at 4:16 am
Possibly! It a technology they’ve been using in some bicycle helmets, and I’m not sure how long THOSE have been around. Sounds like a good long term test.
That WOULD stink though, to just have a big, blurry cloud in the mirror. I guess you’d still see headlights at least.