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mickle
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Several incidents, the most serious of which were:
* I was sent backwards through the windscreen of a car which drove into me from behind at speed - drunk driver. Impacted the windscreen with the back of my head at the equator. Result: Mild concussion and scarring. Wheelchair for two months from injuries to my legs.
* Cut up by a car, fell off sidey ways - impacted the ground with the side of my head just above my right ear. Result: Lump on head.
* Cut up by a taxi at speed, launched into a junction and landed flat on my face at about 25 mph. Result: Serious oncussion.
I am quite sure that the last crash caused slight but permanent brain damage, memory loss. Though I've always been a bit vague. So. You know.
In none of the above collisions was I wearing any head protection. Had I been wearing a helmet I am sure that the health professionals who cared for me would have said that my helmet saved my life. In any case it wasn't the lack of a helmet which hurt me but the danger posed to me by the idiocy of the morons we are obliged to share road space with. I cannot see how a helmet - at the sort of speeds I banged my head - could have helped. Actually, I'm convinced that it would have exacerbated the issue - bending my neck and twisting my brain inside my skull.
Hope this helps.
* I was sent backwards through the windscreen of a car which drove into me from behind at speed - drunk driver. Impacted the windscreen with the back of my head at the equator. Result: Mild concussion and scarring. Wheelchair for two months from injuries to my legs.
* Cut up by a car, fell off sidey ways - impacted the ground with the side of my head just above my right ear. Result: Lump on head.
* Cut up by a taxi at speed, launched into a junction and landed flat on my face at about 25 mph. Result: Serious oncussion.
I am quite sure that the last crash caused slight but permanent brain damage, memory loss. Though I've always been a bit vague. So. You know.
In none of the above collisions was I wearing any head protection. Had I been wearing a helmet I am sure that the health professionals who cared for me would have said that my helmet saved my life. In any case it wasn't the lack of a helmet which hurt me but the danger posed to me by the idiocy of the morons we are obliged to share road space with. I cannot see how a helmet - at the sort of speeds I banged my head - could have helped. Actually, I'm convinced that it would have exacerbated the issue - bending my neck and twisting my brain inside my skull.
Hope this helps.
I've never been knocked off, but have fallen off on ice a couple of times, once when dismounting from the wrong side and once attempting to navigate a ford. Two of those times I've hit my head hard on the right hand side and it's felt like the energy was completely transferred by the helmet into my neck. TBH I think I would have preferred a sore head to a sore neck.
An improvement I would like to see in helmet design would be some kind of additional absorptive layer like a gel or something that will reduce such transfer of energy to the neck. Combined with lightness, and affordability - I'd rather not pay £100+ for a helmet that isn't so heavy it'll likely be contributing to the chances of me hitting my head when falling off.
Don't worry about the testing. You don't actually need to pass jack to get your helmet on sale AFAIK. Perhaps you could start doing your own testing using actual crash test conditions like the makers of the bizarre cycling airbag unlike the current 'standards' the helmet manufacturing industry has continuously lobbied to make increasingly meaningless.
An improvement I would like to see in helmet design would be some kind of additional absorptive layer like a gel or something that will reduce such transfer of energy to the neck. Combined with lightness, and affordability - I'd rather not pay £100+ for a helmet that isn't so heavy it'll likely be contributing to the chances of me hitting my head when falling off.
Don't worry about the testing. You don't actually need to pass jack to get your helmet on sale AFAIK. Perhaps you could start doing your own testing using actual crash test conditions like the makers of the bizarre cycling airbag unlike the current 'standards' the helmet manufacturing industry has continuously lobbied to make increasingly meaningless.
snailracer
Über Member
In the future bike, helmets will have solar powered cooling fans, airbags and anti-whiplash restraints. That's in addition to camera mounts, lights and visors with HUD for the GPS, bike computer and rear-view monitor.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
In the future bike, helmets will have solar powered cooling fans, airbags and anti-whiplash restraints. That's in addition to camera mounts, lights and visors with HUD for the GPS, bike computer and rear-view monitor.
And less than 300 grams
snailracer
Über Member
HUD images are typically focused beyond the screen.HUDs are no good to me, I'm long sighted
Also, windscreen wipers!
snailracer
Über Member
Helium-expanded foam.And less than 300 grams
Wobblers
Euthermic
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- Minkowski Space
Wobblers
Euthermic
- Location
- Minkowski Space
In the future bike, helmets will have solar powered cooling fans, airbags and anti-whiplash restraints. That's in addition to camera mounts, lights and visors with HUD for the GPS, bike computer and rear-view monitor.
Don't forget the rocket launchers....
Wobblers
Euthermic
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53-11, a large fraction head injuries are facial - over half, IIRC.
The one time I hit my head was to the side of my face and temple - a conventional helmet wouldn't have been much use then (though had I been wearing one, it would have ensured that the first thing to hit the ground - at 25 mph - would have been my head rather than my shoulder... ).
The one time I hit my head was to the side of my face and temple - a conventional helmet wouldn't have been much use then (though had I been wearing one, it would have ensured that the first thing to hit the ground - at 25 mph - would have been my head rather than my shoulder... ).
snailracer
Über Member
I think a targetting laser linked to the missile-equipped UAV fleet patrolling overhead would be a more practical solution.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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- Thumberland
I like the old-fashioned "bunch of sausages" leather helmets.
Read up about present design, if you want "improved performance" ,then there are several points that need to be addressed:
Snag points and ventilation which cause rotation and arrest motion, may even cause ejection of the helmet
Poor facial protection
Decreasing amount of material to actually absorb the impact, making the helmet less effective
Increasing density of the remaining material, again decreasing the ability to absorb the energy of an impact
Snag points and ventilation which cause rotation and arrest motion, may even cause ejection of the helmet
Poor facial protection
Decreasing amount of material to actually absorb the impact, making the helmet less effective
Increasing density of the remaining material, again decreasing the ability to absorb the energy of an impact
snailracer
Über Member
Ha, a helmet fitted with tiny castor wheels should allay your fears about rotational injuries