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Re: [ST] Arai phone/internet sales policy
- Subject: Re: [ST] Arai phone/internet sales policy
- From: "Anderson, Neil G (CPR)" <andersng@xxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:34:28 -0600
Philip Las Gourgues wrote:
> I can understand you wanting to take every precaution with your head but
of
> all the motorbike accidents you're seen or heard about have you ever known
a
> helmet to suffer shell failure to a large enough degree to allow injury? I
> haven't so I think the whole thing is pretty academic really. As long as
the
> internal foam hasn't deteriorated and can absorb some of the impact and
the
> shell is strong enough to survive the initial impact and protect the foam
> then I can't see that there's much more any helmet can do for you.
Not a motorbike accident, but I have seen a substantial hole in a climbing
helmet shell after my girlfriend fell 20-30 feet and bounced off the back of
her head. The helmet was not one of the modern lightweight plastic climbing
helmets - it was one of the old, heavy fibreglass Joe Brown ones which
provide something like the same protection as a motorbike helmet. It was in
pristine condition before the fall and had a one inch hole afterwards. If
it had previously been weakened, the helmet might well have split. I expect
that falling off a motorbike and hitting a lamppost or sidewalk kerb at
30mph would do about the same damage to a helmet.
She got up and walked away with only a broken collarbone, if you wondered!
Neil
Following STeve's example of irrelevant quotes,
"My ST is in Scotland and I'm in the USA, what the heck am I doing reading a
motorbike list?"
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