This is where a helmet can help a lot as Ive done the same...

[Brahan]

Yip, just pull your head down onto the ground.

Perhaps they should come equipped with some kind of saftey device. Maybe something that fits snugly around it.

 

[yenrod]

Well either way, you joking lads; they cetainly cushion the blow. My 'brain' likes that fact ! [bless]

 

[Wigsie]

Well it serves him right! If he hadn't had a helmet on he would have magically held his head off the ground and received no head impact whatsoever. In fact, if he'd been naked he'd have missed the ground all together!

Where are those nob ends now??

Struggling to type with a pointer attached to their wheelchair perhaps??

 

[ufkacbln]

Question is......

If he had been going slower would the accident have happened?

Protective devices should not be a replacement for unsafe riding technique.

 

[Crackle]

Well he was racing Cuno, give him a break chance.

 

[ufkacbln]

Well he was racing Cuno, give him a break chance.

Does that make it safe?

 

[ufkacbln]

and......

unequivocal proof that pedestrians should wear helmets?

 

[Wigsie]

and......

unequivocal proof that pedestrians should wear helmets?

As you say.... "Protective devices should not be a replacement for unsafe riding technique."

He was in a race riding round a corner.... what was unsafe? bunny hopping off the road into the bushes would be unsafe..

You could also argue that if you walk down ice covered steps without holding onto the banister your a div and deserve to be shamed on YouTube!

 

[very-near]

Question is......

If he had been going slower would the accident have happened?

Protective devices should not be a replacement for unsafe riding technique.

Given your job as a radiographer, and the fact he got up and carried on riding (indicating he was not badly hurt) , do you think that bouncing ones head off the road like that would result in a serious shaking of its contents without a protective helmet ?

 

[Keith Oates]

Thankfully he didn't seem to be seriously hurt but with a slide like that across the road he must have had a big road rash that would have been very sore for a few days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mr Pig]

Question is......if he had been going slower would the accident have happened?

Good point. Make for a rather dull race though eh? You could invent a new kind of race! You've got to cover a set distance as slowly as possible without going backwards or putting your feet down, either of those and you're out!

That's brilliant! I want to try that. Who wants to be in my anti-race race? ...does that make me racist? Or the safety race? What should we call it?

 

[ufkacbln]

Good point. Make for a rather dull race though eh? You could invent a new kind of race! You've got to cover a set distance as slowly as possible without going backwards or putting your feet down, either of those and you're out!

That's brilliant! I want to try that. Who wants to be in my anti-race race? ...does that make me racist? Or the safety race? What should we call it?

Also .... unequivocal proof that car helmets are required

 

[very-near]

Also .... unequivocal proof that car helmets are required

Given your job as a radiographer, and the fact he got up and carried on riding (indicating he was not badly hurt) , do you think that bouncing ones head off the road like that would result in a serious shaking of its contents without a protective helmet ?

 

[ufkacbln]

Given your job as a radiographer, and the fact he got up and carried on riding (indicating he was not badly hurt) , do you think that bouncing ones head off the road like that would result in a serious shaking of its contents without a protective helmet ?

My profession is irrelevant here....

I am simply referring to the typically stupid and offensive:

Where are those nob ends now??

Struggling to type with a pointer attached to their wheelchair perhaps??

I have produced equally valid evidence that car occupants suffer head injuries as do pedestrians. Does that make anyone who does not wear a helmet in their car a "Nob End in a wheelchair"?

Is anyone going to deny that full face helmets would not have reduced the head injuries in the video of the driver an car occupants?

Or are we back to the weird conjecture that we only need to save cyclists - driver head injuries are acceptable

 

[Wigsie]

I feel you may be mis quoting or have misunderstood my reference to nob ends!

I was simply refering to those that suggest that you are able to decide to hold your head up off the road when crashing in that manner.