The world's safest bicycle helmet isn’t a helmet, it's a Hövding

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The world's safest bicycle helmet...isn’t a helmet

Hövding 3. The world’s safest head protection is worn like a collar around the neck. In the event of an accident the airbag inflates to protect your head. The next generation in Swedish safety technology is here.

1. Superior protection
   Our airbag technology protects up to 8x better than traditional bicycle helmets
   
   
2. Reads your movements
   In the event of an accident the airbag inflates in 0.1 sec
   
   
3. Bluetooth® connected
   Notifies selected ICE contacts in the event of an accident
   
   
4. Adjustable size
   The size can be adjusted by using the BOA® Fit System inside the collar

Hövding is the safest head protection for cyclists in the world. You wear Hövding around your neck as a collar that monitors the movements of your head 200 times a second. In an accident, an airbag inflates and protects your head. Ride safely with Hövding.

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Hövding 2.0 Review - November 23, 2016

After Stanford University gave its officially safety stamp of approval, Swedish startup Hövding is poised to take over the cycling industry. Confirmed by Stanford researchers to have 8x’s better protection than traditional bike helmets, the Hövding 2.0 high-tech airbag helmet inflates in a tenth of a second.

Designed to mitigate catastrophic injury, the Hövding helmet senses a cyclist’s unorthodox movement patterns immediately after impact. This deploys the company’s shock absorbing helmet – inflating the air bag around the user’s neck protecting the cyclist’s head from whiplash, concussions or maybe worse.

Strategically housed within its waterproof collar, Hövding’s built-in airbag system records a cyclist’s movement 200 times a second. The airbag inflates only when it detects an out-of-whack body position and when deployed, covers all of the vital areas in and around your neck and head.

Hövding’s recently-gone-viral safety video (one million viewers) illustrates the effectiveness of its helmet. In the video, not only is the airbag inflated instantaneously upon a car’s bumper hitting the back wheel of the staged bicycle tire, but even more importantly, the test dummy’s entire neck and the head region is engulfed in the Hövding 2.0 ultra strong nylon fabric. As the back of test dummy’s head hits the car’s windshield, you can easily see the shock absorbing properties take full effect – protecting the skull from massive trauma.

According to the Stanford University study, “the thickness and stiffness of the Hövding helmet is “near perfect” in terms of protecting against concussions and head injuries caused by accidents.” The study concludes that there is “an eight-fold reduction in the risk of concussion with a Hövding 2.0 airbag compared to traditional helmets.”

Designed like a hood and made out of ultra-strong nylon fabric, the Hövding 2.0 airbag system protects nearly all of the rider’s head and has been rigorously tested. According to Hövding’s site, “the pressure remains constant for several seconds, making it able to withstand multiple head impacts during the same accident – after that the airbag slowly deflates.”

The technology is rather impressive, to say the least. Using helium gas to inflate the airbag, Hövding ergonomic design is strategically positioned on the cyclist’s collar. Hövding’s proprietary tech, which includes sensor and algorithms, is the result of testing thousands of re-enacted cycling accidents using crash-test dummies. The end result: the more comfortable Hövding 2.0 that has been adapted for mini and folding bikes.

Since the technology is so new ...

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Can I wear Hövding on any kind of bicycle?
Hövding is designed to be used with two wheeled standard bikes, e-bikes (max 25 km / h) and bikes. Hövding can be used with racer bikes but is ergonomically optimized for a more upright sitting position.

Hövding is not designed or approved to use with special bikes such as monocycles, tandems, BMX bikes, recumbents, cargo bikes, electric kick bikes, Segways etc.