Originally Posted by
wphamilton
Same reason that we have loose scalp, there's some give there instead of yanking our head around. I'm more than a little skeptical about the plastic over styrofoam performing that way though, since we still have our scalp inside after all, and the harness has some give in it as well. Nevertheless my plan is to have a covering over it - the vinyl should slide fine.
Not that I'm modding it to be safety equipment
It just needs to have that visual aspect.
Note: compare the coefficient of friction for plastic vs. the human scalp.
Originally Posted by
wphamilton
Some people just like to make things better. Some don't see the point. It's all good.
This is insane. You've taken a safety device and made it much less safe and this somehow qualifies as "better?" This is similar to me taking a car and removing all the doors and the back and front windows to save weight and claiming it's "better" regardless of the aerodynamic and safety compromises. I know safety is not your goal here, and your actual goal remains elusive, other than the objective of wasting your own time, but the word better has no place in the description of what you've created.
Seriously, if you don't like helmets (or for some reason don't want to spend good money on helmets that do exactly what you want and already exist and are actually safe and require zero modification), then just don't wear a freaking helmet. This is not a hard concept. You don't have anything to prove to anybody.