Re: Helmet efficacy test

Am Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:36:01 -0400 schrieb Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>:

On 3/24/2025 9:26 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Mon Mar 24 13:12:49 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

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I agree that the afteraffects of concussions might be commonly
underestimated.
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I disagree that ordinary bicycling's risk of concussion is significantly
higher than other activities'. Society would do better by stopping the
scare tactics regarding bicycling, and by convincing motorists or
pedestrians to wear helmets.

 
 
 
 
Frank, most of the people posting here ride a great deal faster than you. There's nothing wrong with riding any speed you like. But faster riders have more of a chance of not just falling but being out of control when they fall.

First, I don't know that's true. Based on your claims here, I think my
typical riding speed is faster than yours. I'm sure I couldn't keep up
with Zen or Mark, but I suspect most of us old guys here would ride at
similar speeds. I know that on the club rides I attend (I'm typically
the oldest of the attendees) I usually finish in the front half of the
group, and often first. Not that they're races. I just enjoy speeding up
at times.
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Not that it matters. I dispute the implication that faster riders
naturally crash more. It takes miles of riding to get fast, and people
with miles of experience tend to be more skillful.

That's the point indeed.

Let's not forget that even in Germany, where almost every person older
that say eight years own's and rides a bicycle, cycling deaths caused by
head injury are extremely rare. Even rarer are deaths in which a cyclist
was traveling very fast.  Pushing a bicycle when crossing a roadway or
riding slowly is dangerous, not riding fast on the roadway. At least
that's what the accident statistics say. But even that is rare. Death
from a head injury while walking around at home is much more common.


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