kedab
Veteran
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- nr cambridge
i'm looking at an advert for the new endura airshell helmet right now - i like it. i might not get it but i like it.
2429327 said:Do you wear knee and elbow protection on the same basis?
You'll see them in a lot of motorsport on the drivers' shoulders like a neck brace, with little tethers to the helmet, like a helmet seatbelt. Several drivers across both F1 and NASCAR (probably others) including Senna, died from high impact crashes where their body is braced by the seatbelts and the car does its best to absorb the energy, but their helmet-weighted head flies forward and tears things inside the neck/brain stem area.Good idea for the lights. Never seen anyone lit up like that apart from miners.
I don't know what a F1 HANS device is. Please can you enlighten me? Unless the F1 stands for Formula 1 and I've got the wrong end of the stick.
granted and it depends on when you ride and how often you fall off. I'm very much in the ride in dusk/dark for at least 8 months of the year fall off once or twice a year if I'm unlucky. For me and my little lezyne lights I'll take my chances on regular daily visibility over the off chance of the sort of injury that might occur once every 5-10 years if that.Fixing lights <> to helmets increases the number of projections which can snag on the ground causing rotational injuries if you do come off.
Do you drive?granted and it depends on when you ride and how often you fall off. I'm very much in the ride in dusk/dark for at least 8 months of the year fall off once or twice a year if I'm unlucky. For me and my little lezyne lights I'll take my chances on regular daily visibility over the off chance of the sort of injury that might occur once every 5-10 years if that.
Do you drive?
If so you'll have realised that helmet lights simply aren't seen by drivers. It's the ones on the frame that are seen, where drivers are looking and where they don't point the wrong way most of the time.
If you do have helmet lights make sure you have decent bright ones at the 'legal requirement' height as well. Apart from effectiveness, if you don't have those legal requirement lights you'll have problems if someone does hit you.
If you want one, get one. If you don't, don't bother.
Don't let others tell you you need/don't need one as an essential piece of cycling equipment.
I take you do use a saddle on your bike, when riding. If you find the fence comfortable!I'm completely on the fence on this one - and I find it a comfortable place to be.
Carry on.
And probably also beyond the "rating" of my uncovered skull.2433226 said:Which is way beyond their rated effectiveness.