a cardboard helmet is safer than existing helmets.

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

i don't wear a helmet, i don't think they're much kop.....this kinda confirms it to me....cardboard is safer than polyytsraform mushrooms.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/cardboard-bike-helmet-better-than-plastic/

 

[musa]

I think your using the word safer completely wrong here perhaps strength and construction wise. How I see this is merely from the engineering side of things (being a student of engineering)

 

[redcard]

So you'll get a cardboard one?

 

[Gary E]

Yawn

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

I think your using the word safer completely wrong here perhaps strength and construction wise. How I see this is merely from the engineering side of things (being a student of engineering)

eh? the article says it all really. the design surpasses current helmets and is 5 times safer.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

eh? the article says it all really. the design surpasses current helmets and is 5 times safer.

The helmets we had in the 80's and 90's surpassed the current standards too. Funny how the manufacturers have so much say over the standards isn't it.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

The helmets we had in the 80's and 90's surpassed the current standards too. Funny how the manufacturers have so much say over the standards isn't it.

i thought snell was invented by the family of a person who died from head trauma?

but yeah your right to be cynical, it's a billion pound industry after all.

it's funny though how a picture of a cardboard jigsaw style helmet evokes a 'no way that's worth wearing' even tho it's claimed to be proven to be safer.

 

[subaqua]

i could claim to have a 12 inch knob. i haven't said what sort of knob though.

when its been independently tested by a reputable testing house then i might believe.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

it has, it was in an article in ctc.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

i could claim to have a 12 inch knob. i haven't said what sort of knob though.

when its been independently tested by a reputable testing house then i might believe.

http://www.anirudharao.com/index.php?/project/kranium/

independently tested at 'The Imperial College', take your knob and ask 'em to check it for you.

 

[subaqua]

http://www.anirudharao.com/index.php?/project/kranium/

independently tested at 'The Imperial College', take your knob and ask 'em to check it for you.

i wouldn't always beleive just a university study. you never know who pays the research fees.

 

[Red Light]

i could claim to have a 12 inch knob. i haven't said what sort of knob though.

I dread to think what size door goes with a knob that big.

 

[subaqua]

i wouldn't always beleive just a university study. you never know who pays the research fees.

and without a link to the research paper either.

its like me setting up a website claiming my plumber nobbed kelly brook - no proof its not credible

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

i think trading standards would have something to say. plus the british standards agency, have you read the research paper for your helmet?

would it be a research paper on testing to current standards?

for example i test electrical systems and issue cert's to say it's to bs7671.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

i wouldn't always beleive just a university study. you never know who pays the research fees.

how is that different to current helmets?