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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:45:24 -0500
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On 3/25/2025 10:43 AM, Rolf Mantel 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
> 

Nice risk assessment!

Personally, I've walked away from more serious auto wrecks 
than from bicycle crashes so, for me at any rate, cycling is 
safer.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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