Re: Helmet efficacy test

On 3/25/2025 10:43 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:

>
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.
>
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.
>
The only real difference is you haven't yet expressed
your hatred for
running helmets.

>
Frank, you deo not run, do you?

>
On occasion I do, usually with some reluctance.
>

The entire human skeletal structure is designed by God
specifically for running.

>
If God had meant for us to be running, he would not have
given us bicycles.  ;-)
>

While you CAN fall completely out of control it is not
the case with any experienced runners or even speed walkers.

>
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. 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) ;-)
 
Rolf
 

>
Nice risk assessment!
>
Personally, I've walked away from more serious auto wrecks
than from bicycle crashes so, for me at any rate, cycling is
safer.