I am always happy to share my eclectic finds with my readers. I am a giver like that, you know??? When I read this article in the Wall Street Journal magazine I was amazed that I did not come up with this fashionable idea myself. I am sure these products are going to be leaping off the shelves at approximately $609 each. Who says you have to have helmet hair? Who says that biking can not be where you make your own fashion statement???
Two Swedish designers have come up with possibly the answer to that dreaded helmet hair—an inflatable biking helmet. The Hovding (imagine two little dots over that o –can’t get the keyboard to cooperate on that one) invisible helmet sits on the bike rider’s neck like an attractive ( 🙂 ) scarf until it senses a collision is imminent. Whoosh—air fills it in a tenth of a second and walaa—the head is immediately surrounded by a cushion before the impact occurs.
BEFORE
image from www.hovding.com
AFTER
image from www.hovding.com
The jury is still out on this one but I am doubtful I will be seeing many of these beauties during RAGBRAI next summer here in Iowa. Call me crazy but I don’t think the trend is going to hit Iowa for quite awhile! Check out their website for more info at Hovding.
