6D's bicycle-specific full face helmet features their Omni-Dimensional Suspension technology. This high-tech construction provides an in-helmet float zone that drastically minimizes the effects of impacts by managing the kinetic energry.
The ODS system starts with an internal EPS liner not unlike traditional helmets; but that is where the similarities end. With the ODS system, the EPS liner is divided, creating a compound-liner assembly.
These two liners are separated by a very specific programmed array of elastomeric isolation dampers creating an air-gap. It is this array of isolation dampers surrounding the entire liner, combined with the air-gap, that affords the free-motion suspension capability of ODS.
The unique ‘hourglass’ shape designed into the elastomeric isolation dampers function with specially designed frusto-conical ramping chambers within the ODS system to produce a rapidly escalating spring rate under compressive load. These same features allow the split liner system to shear omni-directionally within itself to provide improved performance against oblique impacts and angular acceleration demands. There is no other helmet technology that can offer these combined energy management features.
The helmet is is visibly bigger than most MTB full face helmets, but head injuries are serious business and the creator of the 6D is not willing to sacrifice safety for a perceived style perk.
