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08-24-2004, 04:10 AM

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:56:13 GMT, Glm <nospam@nospam.com> wrote (more
or less):

>On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:43:36 +0100, Just zis Guy, you know?
><outlook.bugs@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:34:04 GMT, Glm <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in
>> message <opsc7fiwvj16xmc7@artemis.mshome.net>:
>>
>> Yes, that's essentially right. Just as you wouldn't expect a computer
>> to survive being hit by a car when packed in its foam packaging
>> (actually rather thicker than the average lid!), you would be mad to
>> rely on a cycle helmet to protect you against serious injury or death.
>> Wear one or not, just remember it's made of meringue covered in
>> eggshell and ride accordingly :-)
>>
>>> Thank you for the response; and for the site.
>>
>> You're welcome.
>>
>> Guy
>
>I spent my youth cycling around the Cheshire countryside, and never wore a
>helmet. If I got hit by a car doing 80mph then I understood that that
>would be that. My mother cared more than I did. Always wore one on my
>motorbikes, though (which I raced off public highways, once or twice
>directly into trees in friends' orchards!).
>
>Now living in New York. Do my best to avoid metropolitan traffic, but
>spent quite some time riding around the Park at night and on weekends,
>when the place is closed to traffic. They have cycle lanes anyway
>(largely populated by careening rollerbladers, though). Having in the
>last fortnight witnessed 4 people decorate the road with lashings of blood
>after falling from bikes, I observed that a helmet might be useful in this
>kind of accident (six foot fall, 9.81 metres per second per second and all
>that). So, now I need to find one I actually like wearing; and which
>offers whatever protection is possible.

For cycle lane travel, where, as you point out, the worst injury to
the head is a minor (i.e. shallow) cut (albeit one that looks very
bloody), why not try a woolly cap. Or one of the 70's bike helmets
made of strips of padded leather.

>
>Failing that, I'll put a condom on my head. Should complement the spandex
>rather well, actually.
>
>
>Glm

--
Cheers,
Euan
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08-24-2004, 04:10 AM	#22 (permalink)
Gawnsoft Posts: n/a	Re: CPSC/Safety Test Statistics - Where? On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:56:13 GMT, Glm <nospam@nospam.com> wrote (more or less): >On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:43:36 +0100, Just zis Guy, you know? ><outlook.bugs@microsoft.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:34:04 GMT, Glm <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in >> message <opsc7fiwvj16xmc7@artemis.mshome.net>: >> >> Yes, that's essentially right. Just as you wouldn't expect a computer >> to survive being hit by a car when packed in its foam packaging >> (actually rather thicker than the average lid!), you would be mad to >> rely on a cycle helmet to protect you against serious injury or death. >> Wear one or not, just remember it's made of meringue covered in >> eggshell and ride accordingly :-) >> >>> Thank you for the response; and for the site. >> >> You're welcome. >> >> Guy > >I spent my youth cycling around the Cheshire countryside, and never wore a >helmet. If I got hit by a car doing 80mph then I understood that that >would be that. My mother cared more than I did. Always wore one on my >motorbikes, though (which I raced off public highways, once or twice >directly into trees in friends' orchards!). > >Now living in New York. Do my best to avoid metropolitan traffic, but >spent quite some time riding around the Park at night and on weekends, >when the place is closed to traffic. They have cycle lanes anyway >(largely populated by careening rollerbladers, though). Having in the >last fortnight witnessed 4 people decorate the road with lashings of blood >after falling from bikes, I observed that a helmet might be useful in this >kind of accident (six foot fall, 9.81 metres per second per second and all >that). So, now I need to find one I actually like wearing; and which >offers whatever protection is possible. For cycle lane travel, where, as you point out, the worst injury to the head is a minor (i.e. shallow) cut (albeit one that looks very bloody), why not try a woolly cap. Or one of the 70's bike helmets made of strips of padded leather. > >Failing that, I'll put a condom on my head. Should complement the spandex >rather well, actually. > > >Glm -- Cheers, Euan Gawnsoft: http://www.gawnsoft.co.sr Symbian/Epoc wiki: http://html.dnsalias.net:1122 Smalltalk links (harvested from comp.lang.smalltalk) http://html.dnsalias.net/gawnsoft/smalltalk