I think you are still being qualititve - rather than quantitive
as it should be amount of people walking x time on feet = hours/head injuries due to collisions with cars
and
people cycling x time on bike = hours/head injuries due to collisions with cars
I think you will find no comparison. How many people do you hear say, I'm scared to walk down the road in case I get hit by a car. Practically none, how many potential cyclists say the same?
Brian
Helmets
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I love helmets, the cycling variety that is. Don't care too much about the military sort, and tried never to wear those doing national service. Oh yes, kept you all safe during a crucial 2 years of the cold war!
My love affair with cycling helmets ( I now keep 3 on the go simultaneously) took off one Sunday morning 2 years ago on a club run, when I was brought down to a soft landing on top of a fellow Cliftonite, who had thoughtlessly landed just in front. Soft landing for the body, not so for the head!
But....in place of the expected skull-numbing crunch there was only an almost pleasant little thud. No streaming blood, no concussion, no panic at all.
So now I also use them in town, never before. Having tasted the benefit once, it would be really inexplicable not to use them in town especially. More hazards, just think of landing head first on a roadside kerb!
As for CTC: they only within my memory gave up their perpetual campaigning for cyclists NOT to have to use lights! Argument was that cyclist were riding happily before cars arrived, therefore the onus was on drivers to illuminate the road well enough not to mow down other road users, whether pedestrians or cyclists.
CTC does useful stuff, some of it exceedingly stuffily!
Oh, and those experiments about drivers passing distances showing that more room is given to non-helmeted baldies: this research was all conducted in a psychology lab using computer simulation!
My love affair with cycling helmets ( I now keep 3 on the go simultaneously) took off one Sunday morning 2 years ago on a club run, when I was brought down to a soft landing on top of a fellow Cliftonite, who had thoughtlessly landed just in front. Soft landing for the body, not so for the head!
But....in place of the expected skull-numbing crunch there was only an almost pleasant little thud. No streaming blood, no concussion, no panic at all.
So now I also use them in town, never before. Having tasted the benefit once, it would be really inexplicable not to use them in town especially. More hazards, just think of landing head first on a roadside kerb!
As for CTC: they only within my memory gave up their perpetual campaigning for cyclists NOT to have to use lights! Argument was that cyclist were riding happily before cars arrived, therefore the onus was on drivers to illuminate the road well enough not to mow down other road users, whether pedestrians or cyclists.
CTC does useful stuff, some of it exceedingly stuffily!
Oh, and those experiments about drivers passing distances showing that more room is given to non-helmeted baldies: this research was all conducted in a psychology lab using computer simulation!
Pilots are largely trained using simulators. Do you never travel by air because the pilot's are inadequately trained?willyh wrote: Oh, and those experiments about drivers passing distances showing that more room is given to non-helmeted baldies: this research was all conducted in a psychology lab using computer simulation!
