Review of the helmet for Smart Sena S1 cycling: listen to everything

One of the The most important senses we have as cyclists are our hearing. Whether you are in a group race, in which other cyclists call road and busy dangers, or alone, to keep your ears out for vehicles or other rides that come from our back, our ears are as essential as our eyes.

The headphones of the bone conduction-which sit out of the ears and deliver the sound through the vibrations-scraps around for some time. But Sena based in Irvine, California, has constantly raised the bar on bicycle helmets with integrated speakers. Their most recent offer, the S1, merges sena audio technology with the aerodynamic advantages craved by so many road cyclists.

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Photography: Michael Venutolo-Mantovani

With a smooth external shell, the appearance of Sena S1, adapts and feels every part of the aerodynamic helmet that has grown in popularity in the last decade. It is elegant, with a quintet of front air intakes and a couple out of the back to keep the head fresh during the hot races. His mixture of flat and shiny finishes gives the helmet a modern contrasting style that would look home in the Tour de France Peloton.

It is light, which weighs only 360 grams and $ 229, has a price of a high-end aerodynamic helmet, despite being equipped with a pair of overshadow speakers and a microphone, a Bluetooth connectivity, a built-in fanole and a built-in fanra and a built-in sentence and a sena seine sentence.

I tested the seine S1 on one of the stupid rides I have done for a long time: that is, when I started to travel one hundred miles around a quarry of a quarter of a mile near my house. (I am not totally crazy. I swear I was doing it for another story.) For a boring and monotonous lap like the century of ¼ of mile that I was ready to undertake, I needed a little distraction. Fortunately, I had an S1 sena sitting in my office.

I have never really confused with any kind of headphones while I am on a bike for some reasons. First of all, security. I like to hear what’s going on around me, especially when I ride on the road. Secondly, as far as I am concerned, feeling the wind in my ears, the birds chirp over my head, my tires that navigate without hitches on the sidewalk or creak the dirt under my wheels, it is part of the experience of bike-valued as much as to turn my pedals. Third, we live in an era in which we are all subject to a constant assault on content. The bike is my sanctuary from all this, a place where no Instagram coil or a hot podcast on a podcast can find me.

Photography: Michael Venutolo-Mantovani