Rick Moranis Spaceballs
I'll admit to being a bit nervous when I clicked on this title ;o)
Rick Moranis Spaceballs
It looks like they bought this helmet and just painted it Yellow and added some logo's!
I’m getting strong Rick Moranis in Spaceballs vibes from that. I’m not sure I have the big Schwartz to handle it, personally.
edit: I should reply faster and with more economy, apparently.
The UCI has rules on tube profiles so bikes stay bike shaped and dont become aerodynamic abominations.
Do they really not have anything on helmet shape?
<checks date first> Wow !
Do they really not have anything on helmet shape?
Not yet but I suspect this might be the catalyst for them.
FWIW I unironically love this stuff. Time trialling is dorky and whichever way you cut it looks silly. I say lean into it and embrace the nerdiness.
You'd have to be really fast in the first place to even think about wearing one, because that's a strong look !
I can imagine that the theory is that the front of the helmet aligns with the hands at the end of the TT bar to create one uniform bow wave... would be rubbish if you can't keep your head still tho
Wondered if this was a Christian Horner thread ..... Thankfully not
It's got to be getting close to being banned for bringing the sport into disrepute.
Needs that space for some snacks and juice to keep the engine running...
I thought it was going to be this helmet
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/2024-oakley-aro-7-aero-helmelT
Cearly less mad than the time trial one
Neither of them look delighted to be wearing them 
The OP's helmet looks like a cross between the original Alien xenomorph's head and a giant phallus.
The Oakley looks like someone´s gone digging in the Star Trek prop cupboard.
I think it will be banned by the next round of UCI regs. Went out in my Giro Aerohead yesterday. TT was cancelled so took the fixed wheel TT bike out anyway. Rear wheel got more attention than the helmet. I did park the visor at the cafe stop!
BTW the Oakley is a just a rip off of the Giro Air Attack Shield of a few years back. I wrote off two Air Attacks in a season, but wasn't brave enough for a shield version with visor. The Aerohead is fabulously comfortable and suits most TT positions - I wear mine with contact lenses, and they're very common on the track too. The new Visma helmet fills in the gaps at the shoulders. There are a few others that do the same. From the front, it makes a lot of sense. From every other angle, less so!
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I did park the visor at the cafe stop!
I spy an aerocinnamon bun
aerocinnamon bun
indeed. It’s my local cafe I normally walk there with the dog! Full bun after a 100 km loop.
thought I’d get a few odd looks. But no.
Watching the opening TT and the Visma helmet didn't look quite so extreme from the side as the earlier online photos suggest. Now I'm no aerodynamicist, though I did study some fluid mechanics as part of my civil engineering degree, but I'm not convinced that extending the front of the helmet like that actually benefits drag reduction.
I think the Fifth Element wants its gun back
Chris Boardman did a funny Insta post:
Shame the embed function is still absent.