I have also crashed and thought the helmet stopped me from being hurt worse than I could have been but studies have shown that is just how we feel, which is not always accurate to what is actually going on. The evidence is pretty substantial that putting and inch of foam between your head and the road isnt really going to save you, its not like an airbag or a crumple zone or anything that substanial. I will continue to wear mine though and hope for the day where instead of putting batteries in shifters the bike bike companies can work on a helmet strong enough to actually save our lives. On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 16:09 -0400, Peter Morgano wrote: > > I think that what Grant is driving at is that while seatbelts and > > other safety improvements have gone a long way to save lives (in cars, > > sorry) helmet technology simply has not advanced that far and is being > > applied as a panacea to tell people they are "safer" when in fact they > > are probably not. > > I think there are many here who have crashed while wearing a helmet and > have the evidence that in fact they /were/ safer because of it. I'm one > of them. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
