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From: Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de>
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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:43:09 +0100
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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