Helios can transform a normal bike into a smart bike

After the invention of motorbikes the uses of our traditional normal bikes has been reduced considerably, but still they are known as the ultimate way to stay fit and burn your calories. I personally have a bike which I maintain regularly, but listen this is the era of modernization and everything from phone to home is becoming smart, so why not a normal bike can be?

The Helios Bars

                                                       The simple answer of this question is Helios bars, these bars are so smart that they can do all the smart things for you. The price is nothing if we compare it with the features the Helios bars offer us. From navigation to simple lighting and from Bluetooth to GPS Tracker, the Helios can offer you them all. With this amazing gadget you can explore many things. Now let’s take a look at the type of bars that Helios offers and the features of Helios.             

                

                   Variety of Bars offered by Helios

There are three types of bars that are offered by Helios currently –

The Drop Bars –

The Helios Drop Bar

Weight : 810 g

Width : 440 mm

Stem : 1 1/8’’

Brakes : 23.7 mm Hooded, 31.8 mm Clamp Open

The Bull Horn bars–

The Helios Bull Horn Bar

Weight : 729 g

Width : 420 mm

Stem :  1 1/8’’

Brakes : 19 mm Reverse Pull, 31.8 mm Clamp Open,  19 mm Bar Shifters

The straight bars –

The Helios Straight Bar

Weight : 610 g

Width : 530 mm

Stem :  1 1/8’’

Brakes : 22.2 mm Standard, 22.2 mm Brake/Shifter         

                                        Each handle is first of it kind in the world because it has integrated headlight and blinker that makes it different and more convenient from other normal handles and following are the some technical specifications of these handles, the specifications are of each handle specified above-

Brightness of various lights : 500 lumens

Battery : Lithium Ion

Battery life of 250 lm : 20 hours

Battery life of 500 lm : 9 hours

Made of material : Reinforced Aluminum

Weather proof : all type of handles are weather proof, whether it is rainy or sunny.       

                                Parts of Helios

There are 4 parts of Helios bars for which they are so viral among the people and becoming famous and style statement of the people, these are the parts of the Helios bars on which they depend-

• It has Powerful HeadLight – It has a CREE LEDs powerful headlight which enables you to light up the area of the road equivalent to a car’s headlight. When set to its brightest settings it can light up your ways for 9 hours with its rechargeable batteries.

• It has Bluetooth smart – With Bluetooth smart you can connect with the Helios bars with your apple iphone’s app and can set various features of the Helios Bars.

• It has GPS Tracker – Just send an sms to get the location of your smart bike from anywhere in the world and your will get the coordinates of it within 30 seconds and a link which will show you its location in the Google Maps. For this you have to take a pay-as-you-go SIM and slide it into the Helios bars.

• It has Rear LEDs – Through the blinker button on the stem of the Helios bars it enables you to indicate other vehicles that you are turning, it blinks for 5 seconds.

  

  The Helios rear LED of Drop Bar

                                                                    

                              Features of Helios bars

There are lots of smart features offered by Helios, because of which they have become viral and those features are smart enough to attract you –

• Smart phone App (Helios Connect) – Helios offers an apple iphone app which can communicate with your Helios bars effectively and enables you to instruct the Helios bars. There are multiple settings that you can adjust according to your need as you can change the color of the LED light, change the distance at which your Helios bars can detect you by communicating with your Helios Connect app. It uses Bluetooth 4.0, which uses low energy, so draining of battery because of using Bluetooth will not be a problem anymore for you.

• It has Proximity Lighting  – This feature makes you feel that your smart bike is actually alive and can identify you, well in real it is possible because of the apple iphone app which is able to communicate with the Helios bars and your Helios bars will detect that you are coming towards it using Bluetooth technology and it will switch on the lights for you automatically, there is an option in the Helios app to turn this feature off or on and also you can set the distance too.

• It has Ambient Lighting  – It also makes you distinguished from others in the crowd by using 9 different colors of LED lights, you can change the light color of LEDs with your Apple Iphone app.

• It hasTurn Signals – Just like the motor bikes you can enjoy the turn signals with Helios also, just by pressing the tactile button on the stem and 2 RGB LED lights are ready to work like a blinker for 5 seconds for you.

• It has Visual Speedometer – As I mentioned earlier, it communicates with your apple iphone regularly and it also monitors your speed with the help of GPS of your Apple iphone and changes it’s LED light color according to the speed of your smart bike and just by watching at the color of the LED light you can know your speed, yes its just so cool.

• It has Turn by Turn Navigation – Using the Google Maps API, Helios navigation system can guide you to the destination by pulsing the right or left rear LEDs. At first it will pulse at lower speed when you will come near to the turn it will pulse at higher speed thus indicating you that the turn is near.

                                         I hope that you all like this app, there is one thing more that if you don’t have an apple iphone, don’t be panic because you can handle it manually too, there are several buttons on the Helios bars to control them manually. It’s price is $279 (US Dollars) and additionally you will be charged for shipping.