Originally Posted by
Six jours
I hope you're warming up thoroughly before attempting those stretches, mate. You're reading all sorts of stuff into my posts, most of which isn't actually there.
For the record, and as simply as possible:
1) I don't advocate for or against helmets. I just advocate for intelligent adults making their own decisions, and not having to put up with insults as a result.
2) A helmet is of some -- but limited -- use. It can certainly prevent bumps and bruises, and in a certain kind of fall it can prevent brain damage and/or death. The "right" kind of fall -- enough energy to cause damage/death without a helmet but not enough to overwhelm the helmet's protective ability -- is unfortunately rare. Anyone who thinks it's going to save him when struck by a large, high-speed motor vehicle is kidding himself, regardless of what kind of degree he has.
1) Only one of us is tossing personal insults around. I was clear from my first post that I think intelligent adults can make whatever choice they want. I don't care if YOU wear a helmet or not. But I wanted the OP to know actual figures instead of the orders-of-magnitude-inflated energy number you through out there to justify your decision.
2) Physics and statistics suggest otherwise. Your post history in defense of your decision appears to be based only on your own intuition. As I mentioned, energy absorption is a poor metric for helmet performance. Even so, the band of energies between "helmetless severe brain injury" and "overwhelming the helmet's capability" is sufficiently large to include the energy of a fall to the ground which is the most statistically probable mode of head injury on a bike. This is true even when the collision is the result of collision with a vehicle. You might suffer a lot of internal organ injuries from the actual collision, but if you bust your noggin, it will almost certainly happen when you hit the ground.
If you want the "pro-helmet" folks to leave you alone, don't make up numbers which have nothing to do with the type of injuries that helmets are meant to protect against.