On Sat Jun 28 20:09:03 2025 cyclintom wrote:
On Sat Jun 28 21:35:24 2025 Wolfgang Strobl wrote:
Am Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:54:40 GMT schrieb cyclintom
<cyclintom@yahoo.com>:
On Sat Jun 28 18:13:26 2025 Wolfgang Strobl wrote:
Bicycle helmets are the Bach flower remedies of traffic
That's indeed a signature that I sometimes use.
So you think that people are afraid of traffic and allay that fear by convincing themselves that a helmet will protect them?
No, I don't think so. I rarely see people wearing helmets while
traveling by car.
But 90% of bicycle accidents are fall-overs that are likely to lead to serious injuries that helmets can reduct.
You just made that up, didn't you?
If I wasn't wearing that shitty foam helmet it is very likely that I would have been killed when my fork fell apart.
If you hadn't been wearing a shitty foam helmet, you might have
inspected and fixed your shitty fork.
And if I were wearing a Wavecel helmet I probably would have received the concusion.
I don't know what a Wavecel helmet is. Perhaps a talking magic hat
telling you to inspect your shitty fork?
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Guessing from some distance, allow me to make a recommendation: wear
your helmet around the clock, even if you only get up from the sofa to switch off the TV. Most fatal head injuries occur at home and if you
have a history of head injuries, you should be even more careful. This
is no joke.
Wolfgang, I have no need to make anything up
https://www.cdc.gov/pedestrian-bike-safety/about/bicycle-safety.html
That is from the CDC and is mostly a bunch of bullshit but it DOES give you a sence of thed difference between injuries abnd deaths,
I published the orginal test of helmets, traveled to Bell in southern Californai and discussed it with hem but since at the time their market was almost entirely motorcycle helmets they took no heed.
https://www.vehicularcyclist.com/kunich.html
What my paper revealed is that there is onloy a tiny number of people killed on bicycles each year, and these are almost exclusively due to motor vehicles.
But while the helmets at the time that paper was published showed helmets to be of no use in fatalities, it DID NOT show that helmets were useless and you appear to believe.
Perhaps you can tell me how you could know when a carbon fiber fork is going to fail?
https://wavecel.com/science/ Up to 98% less concussion risk than the standard helmet.*
If you are not involved in an incident with a motor vehicle it is very unlikely that you will be seriously injured on a bicycle. But the chance does exist And people who ride a great deal like I do are not stupid nor excessively fearful of head injuries.
I know a very great deal more about helmets and head injuries and their prevention than you do.
My concussion was probably reduced from death to a serious concussion that has permanently effected my life. Had it not been for a cop friend of mine I would already have been dead some 15 years. If the helmet I had been wearing was a Wavecel (which hadn'
t been invented at that time) it is likely that I wouldn't have even had the concussion and it would have been nothing more than a funny incident of a carbon fiber fork falling apart from poor construction techniques.
If you don't wish to wear a helmet it is likely that you can go your entire life without a serious injury. But preparing for a possible serious injury is hardly being excessively fearful.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9853880/
Of 76,000 bicycle related injuries, only 22% of them were wearing a helmet and it was directly related to time in the hospital. And funniest of all was that those most likely to be wearing a helmet were blacks, hispanics and children under the age of 17.
Do whatever you will but making fun of people more likely to respect their health than you doesn't reflect on them but on you.
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