Red wrote in :

Ya pays
yer dues, ya takes yer chances...


What I STILL can't figure out is why we're allowed to buy a plastic Honda
Reflex motorcycle and drive it on our roads....while the damned bribed
government bureaucrats refuse to let me import a tiny European car that
gets 85mpg in the city "because it's not safe".

How ABSURD!

Don White wrote:
"Red" wrote in message
...
Larry opined:
At 125 mph, a helmet never saved anyone. It's one of Darwin's laws...(c;

Back when I started riding the DOT rules were to test helmets for a max of
3mph crash protection. That consisted of dropping a small weight on it
from some specified height and if it didn't crack or deform past a certain
point then it passed and was "DOT certified". Basically that meant that
any helmet made from something stronger than paper mache' passed. To be
effective in any sort of real crash (other than for road rash) it is the
thickness and properties of the padding inside that determines its
protective effectiveness. I talked to a surgeon once who said that with
helmets on in a hard smack the person usually dies from brain swelling -
which he said would be orders of magnitude more painful and just as deadly
as crushing the skull, or, they would die from a broken neck from the
helmet rebounding from the stored energy. Ya pays yer dues, ya takes yer
chances...

Might be smarter to just outlaw motorcycles.
There goes that Harley Davidson 'Rocker' and the 'Indian Chief' I was trying
to decide on.



Or outlaw helmets and let nature take its course!
Gordon