We wouldn’t normally get excited over a single photograph, posted in a ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ Instagram story, on a personal account.

But with the DerbyWheel organisation having gone silent for weeks, if not months, it’s a major event to see CEO James Pope posting a photograph this evening of a piece of actual equipment with the DerbyWheel name and logo on it.

We can’t immediately identify the helmet in question, but it certainly isn’t the HJC Furion 2.0, still the only helmet in DerbyWheel’s online list of approved equipment.

It isn’t a radical design (phew!), but the smooth aero shaping and lack of vents seem like what you would expect of a velodrome helmet. It comes relatively far down at the back – just behind the ears, we’d guess – presumably for added head protection.

We’ll stop there, before we over-interpret this. But honestly, it’s just a relief to see something happen after so long.