# DerbyWheel CEO presents branded race helmet

*By Simon | November 13, 2024*

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## 󠀁[DerbyWheel CEO presents branded race helmet](https://globalkeirin.com/2024/11/derbywheel-ceo-presents-branded-race-helmet/)󠁿

13 November 2024

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](https://globalkeirin.com/2024/04/updated-equipment-list-hints-at-a-more-modern-keirin-spectacle/)
.

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.

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