Home made aero helmet

Lae: if you send me a hard shell I can re build it in CAD and run some stress simulation through it..

Shit just got real.

i'm glad to see you are using a broadsheet rather than a tabloid for this project
far better quality of papier mache

@Polka Dot: if you can provide me with your geometry, I can run some CFD simulations for you. Sadly the only laser scanner I can get free access to is desktop sized. You're not a Borrower, are you?

If you send me the scanned mesh file I can mill it out of sikablock and vacform a hard shell over it... then we can start charging for CFD-approved custom aero helmets.

Lae: if you send me a hard shell I can re build it in CAD and run some stress simulation through it..

Shit just got real.

Feck. Theres some usful bods on here these days. I'm a polymer chemist currently specialised in polystyrene foam. We really should produce some LFGSS aero helmets, for more efficient fixie skidding.

can't someone just 3D print it
save having to fanny around with all those broadsheets and flour water paste

@polkadot, if you zoom me over the wras docs I can calibrate it's stress forms and refunction the aft, then we can bore through the MOS, scour the tonnage and hey presto you've got yourself a street legal aero helmet. Pm me and we can get this going.

i could honour it via the medium of dance
send me a instagrammed photo of it and i will interpret that and come up with a 5 minuite piece entitled " hat not hat ? "

here are some friends and myself interpreting chrobin's derny

OK, starting a list of those who would buy a fully produced, designed and tested Polka Dot aero helmet. Let's see if this is viable;

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Ha, this could be the highest tech home made aero evar. I can use these facilities if that's any help:
http://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk

This thread has inspired me to get back to one of my own papier mache aero projects....... I dug it out of the shed this morning

Some great interest here. So many questions...

Next picture:

At this point, using the Mk1 eyeball that I have exclusive access to, I discovered that the helmet was not perfectly symmetrical.
This was a little bit annoying.
The left side of the helmet (our right) looks better to me. I think this must be something to do with being right handed.

Thanks to Cecco and Ronny.

A home made paper-mache helmet not being symmetrical? Strange.

I'm sure you could add some more paper-mache to the right hand side to bring it out a bit to match the left?

if he using it on a velodrome that lopsidedness might help him go round corners better
just pray it's lopsided on the correct side or you'll have to be countersteering all the way around

Polka Dot aero helmet.

To go with the matching road lid?
http://cdn4.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net//2012/07/11/1/bettiniphoto_0116130_1_full_600.jpg

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I'm sure you could add some more paper-mache to the right hand side to bring it out a bit to match the left?

Steady on. Think of the weight. Marginal gains and all that.

Have you considered moisture Polka Dot? Internal and external to the helmet. What happens when you break the sound barrier and your understandable perspiration causes your head to resemble a finished bag of fish and chips from the high street?

You're forgetting about the wooly hat - that should soak up a fair bit of sweat before the paper-mache disolves.

you guys are putting too much thought into it, he just needs to wear a swimming cap under the helmet.

This is comedy gold.

Try the van Gogh solution to uneven weight distribution, cut off an ear.

This thread has inspired me to get back to one of my own papier mache aero projects....... I dug it out of the shed this morning

an admirable attempt to re invent the wheel imho

Right,
Let me answer a some questions,

Will you be including a layer of tin foil in the lay-up?

Funny. Next time.

I think your knees are too close to your elbows but otherwise where do I buy one of these custom lids?!

Not currently taking orders. Price would probably be somewhere in the region of £1000.

Is that Kurt Cobain?

Thanks for that. I never got one of those, but now I feel like I have.

op, can you be persuaded to venture into footwear perchance?

What do you have in mind?

amazing. i can see this idea taking off. Perhaps there'll even be a homemade aero helmet ride to brighton

List...

"fatto quotidiano" helmet?
it looks like :)

Can't remember. Must have just got back from trip to Italy. Mostly Guardian I think.

^^^(lots) another music student?

Former.

Now for a couple more pictures:

It's come on some way from the 'ear flaps' stage.

Yet, still some way to go.

[QUOTE=Polka Dot;3554308]Right,
Let me answer a some questions,

What do you have in mind?

Ideally some duck ankle boot type with an spd sole please
would they have to be laminated to be water proof?

Missed one. Sorry.

are you related to skrtluv?

No.