06-29-2004, 08:38 AM
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In article <40e18470@news.ysu.edu>, frkrygow@mousepotato.com says...
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> > I think I recall seeing something about helmets not being available for
> > children under about one year of age for similar reasons.
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> ... yet try to find ANY evidence that a kid less than one year old has
> ever been seriously hurt on a bicycle, or in a bike trailer! If it's
> out there, I certainly haven't seen it. And if it's happened, it's
> certainly very, very rare. But that won't stop the handwringers' warnings.
Probably because people carrying kids under 1 year old in a trailer are
also very, very rare.
> It's interesting to me that a jogger can (apparently) push that trialer
> as fast as they can run, and it remains "safe." But if a bicycle is
> towing it, it will be "dangerous."
That jogger is almost certainly not going over about 6 to 8 mph, and can
stop a LOT quicker than a bike can. On a bike, you could easily double
that speed, and triple it on not much of a hill.
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