What is most most dangerous?

Simon Brooke

in message <MadDog62.1h8291@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com>, MadDog62
('MadDog62.1h8291@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com') wrote:

>
> I am new around here yes. I consequently apologise if I step on
> someone´s toes or smash in wide open doors here.
>
> Don´t follow the bit about Goretex hats though... Goretex for me is
> soft, warm things that do not protect you for anything else than deep
> frozen ears...?
>
> I suppose the fact that your arm was "smashed to bits" cannot relate
> to the head/helmet issue that I am facing?

I am simply not going to repeat the whole helmet argument now. If you
want it, it is here:
<URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/dogfood/story/article_20.html>

All I suggest to you is that you write to the manufacturer of your cycle
helmet, stating the model, and ask them whether in their opinion it is
strong enough to protect you in a collision with a car.

--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; making jokes about dyslexia isn't big, it isn't clever and
;; it isn't furry.

Just zis Guy, you know?

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:31:00 +1100, MadDog62
<MadDog62.1h7zgy@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote:

>I still believe cycling to be a safe sport for most people.

For most people it is not a sport at all.

>Wearing a helmet is a necessity

Ahem. I refer the hon. gentleman to my previous answer (or rather,
the previous answers, in their multiple forms, of multiple posters).

http://www.cyclehelmets.org
http://www.cycle-helmets.com
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/web...axi-faq-helmets

etc. etc.

>If I had not, I would not be typing this now.

You went back and tried it again without did you?

It's funny how since the invention of helmets all cycling crashes have
become inevitably fatal without the magic polystyrene headgear.
Unless the rider is not wearing one and manages to survive, in which
case it is blind luck and they would have been even more completely
unharmed if they had worn one :-)

>Helmet used is in pieces

Ah, so it failed then. Typical polystyrene foam deflector beanie -
falls apart at the first sign of any force! Just as well the human
skull is good and tough. You do know that helmets are not supposed to
break, don't you? You are aware that polystyrene absorbs virtually no
energy in brittle failure, and helmets are designed to work by plastic
deformation?

If a helmet cracks inna Saved My Life[tm] stylee during the ANSI
tests, it fails and is rejected.

Guy
--
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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at CHS, Puget Sound