I am happy to have any contributions people feel like sending in.
Guy, I'd like to see some advice on how to fit a helmet.
If one has read the evidence and still decides that one's child should wear a helmet, it would be reasonable to tell the parent what constitutes a good fit. Having seen one of my children face plant over the bars and write off one helmet, it was only fit that prevented serious injury.
I frequently adjust poorly fitting helmets that would otherwise offer almost no protection
If one has read the evidence and still decides that one's child should wear a helmet, it would be reasonable to tell the parent what constitutes a good fit. Having seen one of my children face plant over the bars and write off one helmet, it was only fit that prevented serious injury.
Point Of Order: ITYM "probably fit that possibly prevented a /more/ serious injury"
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I frequently adjust poorly fitting helmets that would otherwise offer almost no protection
There's poorly fitting helmets and poorly fitted straps. There's not very much one can do about the former because helmets are rigid and so are skulls. If you just put soft padding to bulk up the inner fit or fiddle with a rear cradle not designed to take a crash load then it won't be load spreading properly if it all goes TWOTP.
(and it wouldn't hurt to say that in a "how to make sure they're not /completely/ pointless" page.)
Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
If one has read the evidence and still decides that one's child should wear a helmet, it would be reasonable to tell the parent what constitutes a good fit. Having seen one of my children face plant over the bars and write off one helmet, it was only fit that prevented serious injury.
Point Of Order: ITYM "probably fit that possibly prevented a /more/ serious injury"
I think he may well have been thinking of strap related injuries rather than tarmac related ones. But ICBW, and often am. -- Ambrose
