Thanks to the Russian motorcycle company Nitronos Motostudio those who like to zoom around on motorcycles can now protect their precious brains by wearing awesome cat-themed helmets. They’re called Neko-helmets and each one features a prominent pair of fiberglass kitty ears. One of them even looks like a grinning Cheshire cat.
“Fiberglass ears are firmly fixed to the body of the helmet, but in case of an accident, they are destroyed without any danger. The ears are performed of through type. Thus, up to a speed of 100 km/h, the ears do not generate additional resistance.”
they’ve got the helmet of that one headless motorcycle lady from… that one anime… my brain is a howling void rn for some reason but she was super cool and i want her helmet.
brb i gotta go get my motorcycle license immediately
These are amazing. Unfortunately I can’t find anything about their safety rating. It says they took a IXS-1000 ‘as the basis’ but do they mean that it actually is an IXS-1000 (which is a perfectly serviceable German helmet rated by the ECE) with ears on top? Could the modding have compromised the shell’s integrity? I kinda want to know these things before I actually crash-test my head.
