POC steps up their aero highway helmet sport once more with the all-new Cytal Carbon, utilizing a home made carbon wing to lend construction for optimum rider security however more room for airflow to maintain you cool. In profile, the brand new Cytal Carbon appears comparatively acquainted – not not like earlier aero highway helmets from POC – simply with some carbon weave peeking out in between ribs. However from the entrance it’s instantly obvious that this co-molded-in carbon wing freed up the Swedish helmet maker to essentially open the Cytal up for improved air flow…
POC Cytal Carbon max ventilated aero highway bike helmet
This season POC has utterly reshaped their highway race helmet line-up. First, they remodeled a time trial lid into the super-aero Procen Air with just a few vents, an built-in visor, and mushy covers excessive of your ears. And now the Italian carbon wing lets this new Cytal profit from most front-to-back air flow whereas sustaining head safety and smooth-over-the-top aerodynamics.
POC calls it a “new strategy to security, aerodynamics, and air flow”, all centered round that in-molded carbon wing.
“With the Cytal Carbon we requested ourselves how we may take our information of creating high-performance highway helmets and take it to a different stage of security, aerodynamics and cooling. Specifically, we wished to reinforce a rider’s efficiency with much more air flow and cooling, which is essential to human efficiency. By difficult typical considering, utilizing distinctive supplies and creating new shapes, we discovered a solution by making a brand-new helmet and integrating a carbon wing handmade in Italy. And we’re extraordinarily constructive in regards to the end result.”
– Oscar Huss, POC Chief Product Officer
Optimized aerodynamics AND air flow
From an aero perspective, POC did the requisite CFD simulation, wind tunnel verification, and real-world testing – along with EF Professional Biking ladies & males. POC declare that aerodynamic drag has been lowered in comparison with their earlier vented aero highway helmets – particularly at larger speeds – even with a lot greater frontal openings.
Like a lot of their earlier aero designs, the entrance vents of the Cytal Carbon are designed to seize the air that varieties a high-pressure space in entrance of the helmet, and redirect it inside and across the riders head. Apparently although, the thinner edges of the carbon wing higher allowed for {smooth} airflow, each “decreasing turbulence and sustaining a linear airflow off the helmet and rider“. The end result, after all, lowered aero drag.
this CFD strain visualization, you get a great sense of that airflow, and the way it interprets to Venturi impact inside air flow based on POC. Decreased inside strain as air flows sooner by means of the smaller inside channels.
However what actually jumps out at me in that graphic is simply how skinny the carbon wing is. Normally a bit reduce like this can be a bit misleading. However it seems right here that the carbon wing actually is that skinny over the complete high of the Cytal Carbon helmet, with simply 4 EPS foam ribs crossing it.
Carbon Wing development and 5-star security score
The key based on POC is basically the shaping and construction of the carbon wing – “impressed by high-performance race automotive use”. POC
Shaping the carbon like a wing optimized airflow, however it was together with the Koridion materials sandwiched inside that helped POC optimize energy and security in a crash. Koridion appears to be a singular and light-weight inside mildew factor that expands when heated to extra evenly press the carbon towards the outer form of the metallic mildew. That allowed POC to create the skinny double-walled wing with max ridgity at minimal weight.
Security is after all precedence one for a helmet, and POC say their “Entire Helmet Idea” from new to conventional supplies & development have yielded one among their most secure highway helmets ever. Whereas there don’t seem like as many buzzword acronyms like we see in numerous hlemets, this new POC Cytal Carbon has been examined by the impartial Virigian Tech helmet lab, and obtain the very best 5-star security score.
Tech particulars
- built-in carbon wing improves air flow and aerodynamic efficiency
- Koridion-filled carbon wing improves security, helmet integrity, and power distribution
- max through-ventilation and improved cooling by way of 5 entrance vents, inside airflow channels & 3 formed exhaust vents – at each low & excessive speeds
- 5-star rated security by Virgina Tech helmet testing lab
- CFD optimized aerodynamics with minimal air turbulence
- optimized density EPS liner for low weight and crash safety
- full-wrap polycarbonate in-mold shell for rigidity & sturdiness
- gentle 360° dial modify match
- sun shades storage
- CE, CPSC, and AS/NZS 2063 licensed model accessible
- light-weight from simply 250g (claimed) for a CE licensed medium POC Cytal Carbon helmet
POC Cytal Carbon helmet – Pricing, choices & availability
The brand new aero POC Cytal Carbon highway helmet is accessible now in choose retailers in Europe & North America. We’ve noticed it in pink on among the EF riders on the Tour de France in current weeks, together with Italian highway nation champ Alberto Bettiol – benefiting from that Italian-made carbon wing.
The Cytal Carbon is available in 3 sizes (S 50-56cm, M 54-59cm & L 56-61cm) and in any colour you’d like so long as it’s black – uranium black.
The brand new helmet sells for $400 / 400€ and it’s also possible to choose one up on-line instantly from POC.com. Asia & Pacific markets will get the brand new lid inside a month or two.
