Originally Posted by jwc
You can call me a moron (maybe a hypocrite, since I do wear a helmet at times) or you can call me one who questions the greed of these companies and the lengths they will go to just for profit. Let's look at it another way....what are these plastic helmets made of...petroleum based materials.
I wonder how many millions of dollars the oil companies make off bike helmets? You know how dastardly those oil companies are...they will stoop to anything to make a profit.
Or how about we look at supply and demand. Parents demand safety products for their children when they do a dangerous activity. Someone says "hey, helmets seem to prevent people from spilling their brains everywhere." And thus demand and supply work themselves out and we have a new industry. Yes, helmets don't work for everything but they work for some things which can happen on any bike ride any day.
Also good way to bring in oil company conspiracies, we hadn't gotten off track quite enough. Maybe you work for a cycling cap company and are in fact trying to smear helmet companies so that people will go back to wearing just cycling caps with no guilt. Cause we all know they aren't very comfortable under helmets. Cause the greed and etc etc.