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I had heard the latter, which is probably why they moved away from the fabric covers pretty quickly. I don't know if the increased risk was ever proven or just hypothetical. Back then they mainly did drop tests which don't really consider rotation forces.
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I had several of the Giro beer cooler helmets. Around 1988, the USCF (now USA Cycling) was doing a study on these helets because they were very popular in US racing and it had been proposed that the fabric cover "gripped" the paveent during a crash and amplified certain injuries.
So, I crashed in a criterium and woke up in the hospital with a concussion and loss of recent memory. My Giro helmet had totally disintegrated. Within 24 hours, the helmet had been collected and sent off soewhere for study.
Never saw the results of the study but the helmet did disappear fro production within the year or shortly thereafter.
So, I crashed in a criterium and woke up in the hospital with a concussion and loss of recent memory. My Giro helmet had totally disintegrated. Within 24 hours, the helmet had been collected and sent off soewhere for study.
Never saw the results of the study but the helmet did disappear fro production within the year or shortly thereafter.
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I mentioned this recently but in 2016 after our tandem crash and subsequent injuries, I had over a hundred scans and tests while in ICU which yielded a laundry list of incidental conditions, one of which was white matter disease too advanced for y age. I had a follow up CT or MRI, don't remember which, and saw a neurologist.
I had three concentrated spots of damage. He asked e if I had ever had a concussion and I told hi that I raced bikes in the 80s and knew that I had had two for sure. IIRC, he said I did not have general white after disease but injury related damage. Anyway, we spent about 15 minutes talking about cycling and I never had to go back.
I had three concentrated spots of damage. He asked e if I had ever had a concussion and I told hi that I raced bikes in the 80s and knew that I had had two for sure. IIRC, he said I did not have general white after disease but injury related damage. Anyway, we spent about 15 minutes talking about cycling and I never had to go back.
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Fro the March, 1988 newsletter of the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute:
"We Need Reports of Shell-Less Helmet Performance
Since the performance in the field of shell-less helmets is one of the big question marks of our day, we would appreciate anything you can share with us in the way of war stories or performance reports of actual field crashes. We are also interested in any stories of breaking apart during crashes, or of any damage by solvents or normal handling. Please send them to our new address."
Lots of info at helmets.org
"We Need Reports of Shell-Less Helmet Performance
Since the performance in the field of shell-less helmets is one of the big question marks of our day, we would appreciate anything you can share with us in the way of war stories or performance reports of actual field crashes. We are also interested in any stories of breaking apart during crashes, or of any damage by solvents or normal handling. Please send them to our new address."
Lots of info at helmets.org
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Thanks for that tip. You travel more heavily loaded than I will be, that providing a deterrent in and of itself. I will also be riding a 40 year old bike that, while valuable to me, might not have value on the bike theft market. I will be traveling through the land of my childhood as a stranger to the traffic and bike culture of the area. I look forward to it still, and am living for May 2, the day I set out.
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Mine was RhodeGear, to this day my favorite bike accessory company. I still use a wing mirror and flickstands from them.
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For anyone interested in why we know as much as we do about concussion and no more, this is most of the reason. The results at the time the lab was closed are described briefly on p. IV. Not saying this work should have continued, but these guys discovered what we think is the important mechanism and had the last chance to test prevention and treatment in a large primate TBI model. Helmet design has been complete guesswork ever since.
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For anyone interested in why we know as much as we do about concussion and no more, this is most of the reason. The results at the time the lab was closed are described briefly on p. IV. Not saying this work should have continued, but these guys discovered what we think is the important mechanism and had the last chance to test prevention and treatment in a large primate TBI model. Helmet design has been complete guesswork ever since.
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For anyone interested in why we know as much as we do about concussion and no more, this is most of the reason. The results at the time the lab was closed are described briefly on p. IV. Not saying this work should have continued, but these guys discovered what we think is the important mechanism and had the last chance to test prevention and treatment in a large primate TBI model. Helmet design has been complete guesswork ever since.
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My biggest concern is grocery shopping before camp, when I have all my gear attached. It wouldn't be hard to snatch a pannier, jump into a car and dash off. One reason I prefer to make camp and then go shopping with one pannier that I can carry with me into the store. If I am shopping fully loaded in a populated place, I will sometimes ask to bring the bike inside the store. Never been turned down. I did that in Brattleboro, VT last year because there are quite a few junkies in town. If there is a large vestibule, I will roll it in without asking.
In the end, I am not worried in most situations. The only time someone tried to steal something of mine was in WY. I was at a private campground. The tent area was close to a dirt road that led to some residential area. The night before I had camped in an undeveloped area with no access to water, so my pots were dirty. Set up the stove to boil water to clean them. I left the stove sitting in the grass and went to do laundry by the campground office. Two kids drove by and stopped. One got out, jumped the little fence and was headed towards my stove. Fortunately, I was sitting outside the laundry room reading and saw what was going on. I made a bee line for my tent. Kid jumped back over the fence, jumped into the car and it sped off.
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Welp, I decided against buying a U lock, because I don't really need one. I also decided to do some waistband reduction on a stretched out pair of tri shorts, instead of buying new, and a few other cuts. So I bought a NOS L&M Rando 500, which can be used as a dyno light, or not. I have an extra dyno wheel, so of course the obvious choice is to build a bike around it, no? The issue I have with dyno lights is that when you stop moving, the light goes out, and if there is a repair to do, you have to carry an extra light. This should solve that problem.
So I spent the morning learning about lights, and dynos, and the differences between lumens and luxes, and rectifier bridges and the like. And beam angles and focus and, and and. I'm a bit paranoid about visibility out on the road, especially in unfamiliar territory, especially where there is lots more traffic and it's generally moving much faster than what I'm used to. How many of us think about the colorblind drivers out there when we pick out a jersey?
So I spent the morning learning about lights, and dynos, and the differences between lumens and luxes, and rectifier bridges and the like. And beam angles and focus and, and and. I'm a bit paranoid about visibility out on the road, especially in unfamiliar territory, especially where there is lots more traffic and it's generally moving much faster than what I'm used to. How many of us think about the colorblind drivers out there when we pick out a jersey?
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i should have added that the lab was closed permanently in 1991 in the midst of ongoing controversy.
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Not wishing to start a helmet debate but I've heard a zillion anecdotes where people claimed that they would have been severely injured or worse if they hadn't had a helmet on. But, and it's a controversial but, how do we know for sure? There are no measurements or recordings to be had after the fact and I'm pretty sure that no one is going to go out and try to repeat their accident without a helmet.
And then there is the helmet itself which increases the size and weight of the head. I know in my construction field, I wasn't required to wear a hard hat until after at least 20 years of work and I was amazed at how any times that I hit my head on bridge beams and such after that. I don't ever remember smacking my head before I started wearing a hard hat. My own anecdote, I know.
Regardless, I wear a helmet religiously. Just always wondered.
And then there is the helmet itself which increases the size and weight of the head. I know in my construction field, I wasn't required to wear a hard hat until after at least 20 years of work and I was amazed at how any times that I hit my head on bridge beams and such after that. I don't ever remember smacking my head before I started wearing a hard hat. My own anecdote, I know.
Regardless, I wear a helmet religiously. Just always wondered.
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Not wishing to start a helmet debate but I've heard a zillion anecdotes where people claimed that they would have been severely injured or worse if they hadn't had a helmet on. But, and it's a controversial but, how do we know for sure? There are no measurements or recordings to be had after the fact and I'm pretty sure that no one is going to go out and try to repeat their accident without a helmet.
And then there is the helmet itself which increases the size and weight of the head. I know in my construction field, I wasn't required to wear a hard hat until after at least 20 years of work and I was amazed at how any times that I hit my head on bridge beams and such after that. I don't ever remember smacking my head before I started wearing a hard hat. My own anecdote, I know.
Regardless, I wear a helmet religiously. Just always wondered.
And then there is the helmet itself which increases the size and weight of the head. I know in my construction field, I wasn't required to wear a hard hat until after at least 20 years of work and I was amazed at how any times that I hit my head on bridge beams and such after that. I don't ever remember smacking my head before I started wearing a hard hat. My own anecdote, I know.
Regardless, I wear a helmet religiously. Just always wondered.
I don't think there are a whole lot of crash situations where a crash without helmet involving zero contact or a light grazing would equate to the same crash with a helmet practically tearing your head off
I'm sure they can occur but rarely I'd guess.
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Not wishing to start a helmet debate but I've heard a zillion anecdotes where people claimed that they would have been severely injured or worse if they hadn't had a helmet on. But, and it's a controversial but, how do we know for sure? There are no measurements or recordings to be had after the fact and I'm pretty sure that no one is going to go out and try to repeat their accident without a helmet.
And then there is the helmet itself which increases the size and weight of the head. I know in my construction field, I wasn't required to wear a hard hat until after at least 20 years of work and I was amazed at how any times that I hit my head on bridge beams and such after that. I don't ever remember smacking my head before I started wearing a hard hat. My own anecdote, I know.
Regardless, I wear a helmet religiously. Just always wondered.
And then there is the helmet itself which increases the size and weight of the head. I know in my construction field, I wasn't required to wear a hard hat until after at least 20 years of work and I was amazed at how any times that I hit my head on bridge beams and such after that. I don't ever remember smacking my head before I started wearing a hard hat. My own anecdote, I know.
Regardless, I wear a helmet religiously. Just always wondered.
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Not wishing to start a helmet debate but I've heard a zillion anecdotes where people claimed that they would have been severely injured or worse if they hadn't had a helmet on. But, and it's a controversial but, how do we know for sure? There are no measurements or recordings to be had after the fact and I'm pretty sure that no one is going to go out and try to repeat their accident without a helmet.
And then there is the helmet itself which increases the size and weight of the head. I know in my construction field, I wasn't required to wear a hard hat until after at least 20 years of work and I was amazed at how any times that I hit my head on bridge beams and such after that. I don't ever remember smacking my head before I started wearing a hard hat. My own anecdote, I know.
Regardless, I wear a helmet religiously. Just always wondered.
And then there is the helmet itself which increases the size and weight of the head. I know in my construction field, I wasn't required to wear a hard hat until after at least 20 years of work and I was amazed at how any times that I hit my head on bridge beams and such after that. I don't ever remember smacking my head before I started wearing a hard hat. My own anecdote, I know.
Regardless, I wear a helmet religiously. Just always wondered.
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There is no reliable way to model the response of the contents of the head, especially the brain. We don’t know much about its mechanical properties or how it moves under acceleration forces. Any useful model has to provide information at the level of the individual nerve fiber. They can do this in rodents, but those injury models have very little to do with the kind of thing that might happen to you or me on a bike.
i should have added that the lab was closed permanently in 1991 in the midst of ongoing controversy.
One of the things she has said is that gauging head injury levels can be difficult because it can vary so much despite the similarity of the cause. The outlook for me was not very good -- and mine had nothing to do with cycling -- but I seem to have surprised more than a few of my medical people with my ability to make what is regarded as a "remarkable recovery".
I still a little way to go, but it has made me ultra-aware of safety important when riding a bicycle, and doing just about anything else in my day-to-day living.
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I believe in helmets. I need a new one for the upcoming busy riding year.
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Oh, and two of the other important factors that I picked up were medical questions often during my initial treatment related to smoking and alcohol consumption. For me, alcohol intake went down to almost zero about a decade ago (Machka is not a drinker at all, so my own life has to fit that) and is now permanently zero for the rest of my life. I finished cigarette smoking even longer ago than that. And I have never been an illegal drug user.
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I was a reader of an another bicycle group a long time ago, and was devastated to read one of the members had his wife fall from a bike while on tour after literally just getting on it. She died because her unprotected head hit the ground. So I understand you post, BillyD.
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