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I add aux lights similar to the two bottom configuration. This creates a triangle with the headlight and makes me more visible. The two lights to the side is e

I add aux lights similar to the two bottom configuration. This creates a triangle with the headlight and makes me more visible. The two lights to the side is excessive because it can confuse drivers with the turn signal lights. I would not attach any lights to the helmet. Helmets are ideally glancing off impacts and gopro or light add ons can cause catastrophic failure for the helmet if its hit during impact. See Schumacher's ski accident

minitoar 4y ago
Agreed about not modifying the helmet but I could imagine a helmet with such a thing built in.
- _carbyau_ 4y ago
  Where's my inbuilt headcam already? Honestly, first motorcycle helmet with inbuilt front and back cams that is at a vaguely mainstream price (premium allowed for extra features!) has my serious interest.
- Scoundreller 4y ago
  Built-in seems worse? I'd rather it sit outside on something flimsy and break away at impact.
  - minitoar 4y ago
    Helmets are tested in a variety of impact scenarios without modification. Who knows how some random attachment might negatively affect those outcomes. Presumably you might use some sort of adhesive to attach things — that adhesive can damage and weaken the shell of the helmet.
    - Scoundreller 4y ago
      I just use my brain and assume that the plastic 'candy' shell on the helmet doesn't do anything (other than moisture protection) and as long as the styrofoam innards are in-tact, then nothing materially changes. Otherwise we'd also see warnings against stickers and artwork on the shell of helmets, but we don't. Or at least I didn't, but I don't really read manuals.
      - minitoar 4y ago
        Every motorcycle helmet manual I’ve read explicitly says not to put stickers on the helmet. Protecting the foam from moisture is important — a rainy ride can significantly weaken the foam. Eg: https://www.bellhelmets.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-bellhelmets-Library/default/dw840d32d4/manuals/Bell-Helmets-Motorcycle-Helmet-Instruction-Manual-PS100856-INT.pdf https://www.bellhelmets.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-bel...
Scoundreller 4y ago
Trick is to have the light held with some kind of rubber band type thingy, so that in an impact, it just breaks off sacrificially. But I guess, in the unlikely event, if the impact is at just the wrong angle, it just drives through the impact-absorber. But I don't think it's possible to fall straight down (negative Y speed, but no X/Z speed vector) when travelling at speed. At least that's how my bicycle helmet light works.

minitoar 4y ago

Agreed about not modifying the helmet but I could imagine a helmet with such a thing built in.

_carbyau_ 4y ago
Where's my inbuilt headcam already? Honestly, first motorcycle helmet with inbuilt front and back cams that is at a vaguely mainstream price (premium allowed for extra features!) has my serious interest.
Scoundreller 4y ago
Built-in seems worse? I'd rather it sit outside on something flimsy and break away at impact.
- minitoar 4y ago
  Helmets are tested in a variety of impact scenarios without modification. Who knows how some random attachment might negatively affect those outcomes. Presumably you might use some sort of adhesive to attach things — that adhesive can damage and weaken the shell of the helmet.
  - Scoundreller 4y ago
    I just use my brain and assume that the plastic 'candy' shell on the helmet doesn't do anything (other than moisture protection) and as long as the styrofoam innards are in-tact, then nothing materially changes. Otherwise we'd also see warnings against stickers and artwork on the shell of helmets, but we don't. Or at least I didn't, but I don't really read manuals.
    - minitoar 4y ago
      Every motorcycle helmet manual I’ve read explicitly says not to put stickers on the helmet. Protecting the foam from moisture is important — a rainy ride can significantly weaken the foam. Eg: https://www.bellhelmets.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-bellhelmets-Library/default/dw840d32d4/manuals/Bell-Helmets-Motorcycle-Helmet-Instruction-Manual-PS100856-INT.pdf https://www.bellhelmets.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-bel...

Scoundreller 4y ago

Trick is to have the light held with some kind of rubber band type thingy, so that in an impact, it just breaks off sacrificially. But I guess, in the unlikely event, if the impact is at just the wrong angle, it just drives through the impact-absorber. But I don't think it's possible to fall straight down (negative Y speed, but no X/Z speed vector) when travelling at speed. At least that's how my bicycle helmet light works.