Originally Posted by
Drummerboy1975
So what happens on a nice summer day, it's 70 degrees, birds are single, your tooling along helmetless, and a dog runs right out in front of you less than a few feet away? You tell me not to reley solely on a helmet but your relying on your falling abilities.....
Again, at speeds above c. 13 mph, helmets seem to have no significant effect. Apparently because any protection it may give the head as such is outweighed by the harm it may cause to the neck and in other ways due to rotational forces. It may seem counter-intuitional, but that goes for the shape of the Earth, too
I'd like to remind you that the fatality rate among pros in the TdF, the Giro etc. has been steady through the last many many years, and that helmets do not seem to have made any change in it.