Originally Posted by Frankie
I also feel there's probably a little truth in his bold statement about helmets only being affective under 15 miles per hour. I couldn't guess at the speed in which a helmet becomes inaffective, but with the stress on meeting DOT and Snell requirements, I'd imagine helmets are more engineered towards passing those tests than being as affective as they could be in a crash. I mean, making and selling helmets, at the root of it all, is a business, right? The bottom of line of any business is profit in today's soulless world.
true, but with the amount of people that go down, if a certain brand was to show poor workmanship, it would get around quickly, and they would be in for a big treat.
but when you think about it...the vertical velocity of someone coming off a bike is probably right in that range of 15mph...no matter what their speed cumulative velocity is. and i can also understand his fight for basalar injuries, but helmets are only 3-5 lbs or so nowadays..even pulling 2-3G's your talking 15lbs of weight exerted at most, and i cant exactly see that killing someone but im not physiologist.
i will always wear a helmet though. end of story.
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