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my, what a confident, dashing, GQ-catalog-tv-personality-quality idiot. On Monday, May 19, 2014 8:42:50 AM UTC-5, Eunice Chang wrote: > > Here's a counter-link: > > http://www.vox.com/2014/5/16/5720762/stop-forcing-people-to-wear-bike-helmets > > At this point, I think it's more important that we encourage people to > bike, rather than scaring them out of biking. That alone will help > awareness and hopefully change transportation infrastructure. And it's safe > to say in my experience, helmets WILL make a difference in *head* injuries > but won't protect you from dying. To be fair, nothing will actually prevent > us from dying... > > -E. (wears a helmet by choice b/c she has a lousy sense of balance) > > > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Ron Mc <[email protected] > <javascript:>>wrote: > >> The data is irrelevant. It doesn't matter how many helmets you're >> wearing if you go head-to-head with an automobile in a collision. But by >> yourself on a bicycle, 12 mph with just the wrong impact will kill you. >> All of us are going to flip our bikes at some point. Wearing a helmet >> then will make all the difference in impact and laceration injuries. >> >> >> On Monday, May 19, 2014 6:25:40 AM UTC-5, Edwin W wrote: >>> >>> I would love to see the same chart for car wrecks. Walking deaths. Stair >>> falls. For biking in the Netherlands. >>> I know a guy who was in a bike crash. He lived, with no head injury. He >>> was not wearing a helmet. I'm not convinced that is why he lived, with no >>> head injury, but it is a correlation. >>> >>> Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, >>> >>> Edwin >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
