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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:53:59 -0400
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On 3/25/2025 11:43 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. 

Many years ago in my youth I attempted to ride to a friends house after 
I had been drinking (not drunk, but to excess). I arrived two miles 
later having crashed twice (once failing to pull out of the toe clip at 
a stop light) and with a bloody elbow and chin.

> 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) ;-)

The distance to the ground may be halved, but for me, I don't know that 
it would be any easier to keep vertical.


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