Re: Helmet efficacy test

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:43:09 +0100, Rolf Mantel
<news@hartig-mantel.de> 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

Two wheel recumbents can be trickier than standard diamond frames
because the center of grvity is lower. You can feel the difference
between sitting upright and being on the drops with a regular bike.

--
C'est bon
Soloman