Re: Helmet efficacy test

On 3/25/2025 11:43 AM, Rolf Mantel wrote:

Am 25.03.2025 um 15:29 schrieb Frank Krygowski:

On 3/24/2025 9:36 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Mon Mar 24 17:13:48 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

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I'm stating my opinion in a discussion group. You should be able to
tolerate that, especially since over the years I've backed up my opinion
with mountains of data.
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Please note that your statements above, about the nasty "leftover
affects" and "you can fall over bad just barely moving" apply exactly as
well to running. Yet I'll bet you'd hate hearing that all runners should
always wear a helmet when running.
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The only real difference is you haven't yet expressed your hatred for
running helmets.

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Frank, you deo not run, do you?

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On occasion I do, usually with some reluctance.
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The entire human skeletal structure is designed by God specifically for running.

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If God had meant for us to be running, he would not have given us bicycles.  ;-)
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While you CAN fall completely out of control it is not the case with any experienced runners or even speed walkers.

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It's also not the case for me on a bicycle. Only three moving on-road falls in over 50 years of riding. Zero head injuries. Most avid cyclists never ever hit their head, and certainly never hard enough to induce brain injury.

 Attention: the reflexes keeping our heads away from the ground are strongly reduced by old age and by inebriation.

Many years ago in my youth I attempted to ride to a friends house after I had been drinking (not drunk, but to excess). I arrived two miles later having crashed twice (once failing to pull out of the toe clip at a stop light) and with a bloody elbow and chin.

I sincerely plan to start wearing a bicycle helmet from age 80 onwards and not to ride an upright bicycle when drunk (on the recumbent, the distance to ground is halved) ;-)

The distance to the ground may be halved, but for me, I don't know that it would be any easier to keep vertical.
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