The CycleChat Helmet Debate Thread

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Eureka!
I've just found a helmet aimed for pedestrians, see, they are available, soon we'll all be wearing them, should keep some of you happy.
http://uk.babyhaven.com/thudguard-i...+shopping+uk&gclid=CPD-iLek7M4CFdEV0wodJxQObg


A product I have been supporting on this forum since 2009!

It ticks all the boxes for a positive campaign that shows they should be compulsory

Support from professional bodies:
... should make a valuable contribution to risk reduction in a similar way to cycle helmets...

David W. Jenkins BA MPhil(Eng) PhD DCA FTSI
Product Safety Adviser to RoSPA

It is a pleasure to support the 'Thudguard' in my capacity as President of the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine. Any device which helps to reduce the number of head injuries sustained by young children each year is most welcome

John Heyworth
President

British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine


Anecdotal evidence:

I just wanted to comment that, recently our 15 month old was playing outside in the parking area, trying to follow our 4 yr-old around. She fell forward and caught herself with her hands, sat on her bum, then jerked back and hit her head on the cement. She had a 10 minute long seizure from the trauma (so they THINK). It was the most traumatizing experience we've ever had. Between my husband and I, I've always been very loose at 'letting the kids go and experience being a kid'. But after having my 19lb daughter convulsing, with her eyes rolling back and foaming at the mouth, while in my arms for 8.5 mins before the ambulance arrived. I think this is a much NEEDED PRODUCT. I can honestly admit, I was one of those people that thought parents were just being over-protective. But now I really think it's just being cautious. I would not wish the experience upon anyone. I would have rather gone the rest of my life being care-free from the fear that it could happen again.

Evangeline Acda, US

Hi Ms. Kelly,

My first born is worth more than life to me and I want to protect her from the start and not look back and say, "Well, if I only would have bought that Head-Guard she wouldn't have hurt her head when she fell over".

Thank-you for this invention, Dave Avers, US



Interesting how these can be ignored / dismissed in the case the Thudguard and we somehow don't see campaigns for its compulsion
 
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My bet is 5 minutes. Anyone else?

(Waits patiently for the inevitable....)

I can claim the original introduction of the Thudguard into the helmet debate..... back in 2009

.. and I was very patient..... almost ten minutes
 
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I felt the same way riding the Brompton World Championships.

I couldn't get in to Goodwood....

The access was across the race track, and you had to wear a helmet to cross it!

You could cycle to and from teh site, around the site without a helmet, but to get in you needed a helmet

Only cycle event I have ever been to where you had to dismount and walk in
 

Justinslow

Lovely jubbly
Location
Suffolk
I can claim the original introduction of the Thudguard into the helmet debate..... back in 2009

.. and I was very patient..... almost ten minutes
I assumed srw meant till it got deleted. But yes think of all the money the NHS would save if we all wore one, all the time, one of the reviewers did say they get a bit sweaty though, need more vents, sound familiar.
 

Justinslow

Lovely jubbly
Location
Suffolk
Oh my, @mjr is gonna have kittens
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http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/uk_577528b5e4b08b8610d7a037?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
I assumed srw meant till it got deleted. .
Nope!

Yet another assumption dashed.
 
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