| Re: CPSC/Safety Test Statistics - Where?
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:43:36 +0100, Just zis Guy, you know?
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> 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.
Failing that, I'll put a condom on my head. Should complement the spandex
rather well, actually.
Glm
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