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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:07:00 -0400
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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