Re: 1972 Legnano in the news

On 11/10/2024 8:19 AM, John B. wrote:

On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 21:57:56 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 11/9/2024 4:13 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:

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I always wear a helmet and if you don't want to wear one it is free
county, don't wear one. I am not about to argue just that I wear a helmet.

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Since this is a discussion group, when you make a statement like
"Generally it is much safer to wear a helmet" you can expect it to be
discussed. There's ample data available calling your statement into
question. Wolfgang knows this.

 "Generally it is much safer to wear a helmet"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8909479/
An average of 247 traumatic brain injury deaths and 140,000 head
injuries among children and adolescents younger than 20 years were
related to bicycle crashes each year in the United States. As many as
184 deaths and 116,000 head injuries might have been prevented
annually if these riders had worn helmets.

"... MIGHT have," says the propaganda source.
But only for bicycling, which last I looked was the cause of only 0.6% of America's brain injury deaths? Why let the other 99+% go without helmets?
And as Andrew asked, John, what percentage of _your_ lifetime riding miles occurred while wearing a styrofoam beanie?
This nonsense is all based on the carefully constructed marketing myth that ordinary bicycling is terribly dangerous.
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- Frank Krygowski