How can wearing a helmet offer no protection from injury?

[ufkacbln]

Which is why you can make it much simpler.

Look at patients where a head injury has happened.....that will give you an unequivocal breakdown of which groups are experiencing head injuries

 

[ufkacbln]

Because at the end of the day, these are the only cases where we can say a helmet would or would not have had a significant effect

 

[Licramite]

It,s been suggested in earlier posts that if you wear a helmet drivers give you less room when passing you, do you think this is true ? -
when passing cyclists I've never considered if they are helmeted or not, does anyone here check out the cyclists head before overtaking. (as we are all probably typical car drivers)

I wonder how many of you have the cycle safety arm that sticks out from the bike, which drivers avoid and so makes them pass with more room (you see it allot in holland or on the continent) - but then maybe this is for a different discussion area.

 

[benb]

It,s been suggested in earlier posts that if you wear a helmet drivers give you less room when passing you, do you think this is true ? -
when passing cyclists I've never considered if they are helmeted or not, does anyone here check out the cyclists head before overtaking. (as we are all probably typical car drivers)

I think the idea is that it is subconscious rather than the driver explicitly thinking "There's a helmeted cyclist, I can overtake them closer".

As far as I am aware the evidence is suggestive rather than compelling, so further studies would be welcome.

 

[Licramite]

work is a bit slow this week, lots of sites closed due to weather.
So I was looking at sites about cycle helmet safety and design again and I've notice a pattern emerging.
Every report,study that confirms helmets are beneficial to cyclists safety and aid and reduce head injuries , is challenged and disputed.
Every counter study saying helmets have no benefit or are even a dangerous or discourage cycling - are not challenged or disputed.

I wonder why this is.

 

[Licramite]

It's those damned hair gel companies. - its all this wind whistling through your flowing locks.
helmets just ruin those extreme styles !

me I,m aerodynamic - slice through the air like a ripe tomato.(same colour to)

 

[theclaud]

It's those damned hair gel companies. - its all this wind whistling through your flowing locks.
helmets just ruin those extreme styles !

Then I can see why Adrian would object..

 

[theclaud]

As I might have mentioned once or twice before, it is not the wind in your hair, it is the wind across your scalp.

You have mentioned it before. Your tone was similarly brusque.

 

[theclaud]

That's brusque?

Perhaps I imagined it. If you want to borrow my Canadian nerd hat, you only have to ask...

 

[Licramite]

As I might have mentioned once or twice before, it is not the wind in your hair, it is the wind across your scalp.

as long as its not the tarmac across your scalp.

I must admit its getting a bit nippy for the wind across my scalp, I was wondering about a lycra hat to go under my helmet, the helmet cover look a bit baggy and liable to be left on a branch as I crash through over hanging trees.

 

[ufkacbln]

Perhaps I imagined it. If you want to borrow my Canadian nerd hat, you only have to ask...

Is that the one with the (in)famous elephant digestive tract test?

"Elephant trainer Michael Hackenberger of the Bowmanville (Ontario) Zoo, had his Tilley Hat snatched from his head and eaten by an elephant. Three times. Michael later would find and pick up his Hat, wash it thoroughly, and wear it. He had declined to accept a new Tilley Hat in order that we may have his well-traveled Tilley for our museum. (We were secretly pleased!)" Alex Tilley, Ontario

If so I also wear one.

The question is how many elephant s would pass a cycle helmet - snag points take a whole new meaning!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Is that the one with the (in)famous elephant digestive tract test?

If so I also wear one.

Me too, it's known as my 'Old Mans hat' ....

 

[ufkacbln]

OK - we now have a number of wearers.....


Do we campaign for compulsion?

 

[Licramite]

what - hats that have been through an elephants digestive system ? - oh yea I really want to stick that on my head.

its like the scotty lad who lost his tam-o-shanta in a field full of cows , it took him five attempts to find the one that fitted.

 

[defy-one]

I came off today,landed on my side, still glad i was wearing one.