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"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >

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There may well be a lot of truth in this. Look at the list of
manufacturers certified to Snell standards:

Who cares about Snell, that's for motorcycle weenies.

My Rudy Project has the EM1078.

Anyway, riding around with a block of styrofoam on your head
looks dumb, I just bought a classic Cinelli hair net on Ebay.

Fabrizio Mazzoleni said:

Who cares about Snell, that's for motorcycle weenies.
My Rudy Project has the EM1078.

Ah, the standard Big Bell wrote themselves, among the weakest in the
world :-)

Guy
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 23:02:02 GMT, "Callistus Valerius"
<[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):

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hit a curb with my helmet on, at 20 mph, while wearing Giro Pneumo. I was
not overly impressed with the results. I was knocked out for about 1
minute. Took about 2 hours for my thinking to return to normal. There was
some cracking and broken Styrofoam, but not as much as I expected. Most of
the torn styro was where the straps connect to the helmet. I feel if more
of the helmet would have disintegrated, I wouldn't have ended up with such a
headache.

It absorbs very littel impact energy if it disintegrates. It's
designed to work by compressing from a puffy foamy material into a
flat, dense material.

And in any event, it's designed to cope with your head falling from
head height when near stationary.

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"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

Ah, the standard Big Bell wrote themselves, among the weakest in the
world :-)

Who cares about standards and other what-not?

At the elite level of road riding we wear helmets for style
reasons only.

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

Ah, the standard Big Bell wrote themselves, among the weakest in the
world :-)

Who cares about standards and other what-not?

At the elite level of road riding we wear helmets for style
reasons only.

Fabrizio Mazzoleni said:

At the elite level of road riding we wear helmets for style
reasons only.

And there was me thinking it was because the UCI /made/ you do it,
like they /make/ you ride those God-awful wedgie stick-bike
contraptions.

Guy
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"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >

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And there was me thinking it was because the UCI /made/ you do it,
like they /make/ you ride those God-awful wedgie stick-bike
contraptions.

Look, here's what we're going to do, first you must
lose at least 43lbs of body weight, then get yourself
to your local pro-shop and get a nice Campy equiped
DeRosa Merak set up for you.

Then you may come back here and talk to me.
Until then, you are a nobody.

In article <k8mIc.74569$WB5.52188@pd7tw2no>,

Fabrizio Mazzoleni said:

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >

Quoted message said:

And there was me thinking it was because the UCI /made/ you do it,
like they /make/ you ride those God-awful wedgie stick-bike
contraptions.

Look, here's what we're going to do, first you must
lose at least 43lbs of body weight, then get yourself
to your local pro-shop and get a nice Campy equiped
DeRosa Merak set up for you.

Then you may come back here and talk to me.
Until then, you are a nobody.

This weekend, I rode a team-issue Cannondale 613 (that means Record
Carbon/Ti 10v, Hollowgram cranks, and the carbon fibre bar with internal
cable routing), duly provided to me by the factory, and wearing my team
uniform proudly displaying my Cannondale sponsorship.

I am Fabrizio!

It's all true (except the part about being Fabrizio),
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Ryan Cousineau, [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com
President, Fabrizio Mazzoleni Fan Club

"Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<k8mIc.74569$WB5.52188@pd7tw2no>...

Quoted message said:

Look, here's what we're going to do, first you must
lose at least 43lbs of body weight, then get yourself
to your local pro-shop and get a nice Campy equiped
DeRosa Merak set up for you.

Then you may come back here and talk to me.
Until then, you are a nobody.

Well /that's/ a convincing argument both for the helmet you recommend
and for the superiority of uprights.

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Dave...

I was thrown out of there during my freshman year, for cheating on my
metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy
sitting next to me. — Woody Allen

Fabrizio Mazzoleni said:

Look, here's what we're going to do, first you must
lose at least 43lbs of body weight, then get yourself
to your local pro-shop and get a nice Campy equiped
DeRosa Merak set up for you.

I'd also need to lose six inches in height to be like all the other
pro midgets.

Otherwise if I lost 43lb I'd be anorexic.

Guy
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