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Bicycle Helmets

Bicycle Helmets

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Some people said that bloodletting is impossible since George Washington was lost a few hundred years ago. He was

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believed his rhetoric rather than logic when agreed to it as treatment for a nasty cold. And now the bicycle helmets together with law always promote to wear helmet in order to prevent head  from dangerous hit.

In fact its unusual to wear bicycle helmets. Some people said if you so much as swing your leg over a bicycle without wearing a bicycle helmets you will smash your head open. Even in one place, not wearing a bicycle helmets are claim as a person who reckless and irresponsible.

This propaganda was presented by insurance company, government agencies, and health practitioners. They want to reduce countless law suits that given by bicyclist in accident for not wearing a bicycle helmets. They even make slogan ‘bicycle helmets prevent 85% of head injuries and 88% of brain injuries’. Curnow in 2001 research said that only little part of major head injuries beyond minor skull fractures can protect by bicycle helmets.

toddler bicycle helmet

The development in produce bicycle helmets are increase safety standard in bicycling. But it contrary with bloodletting that has common sense for 2000 years. To make sure lets try the fun quiz about the danger of bicycling at bicyclinglife.com/SafetySkills/SafetyQuiz.htm

The regulation to wear bicycle helmet is follow by helmet rhetoric. The regulation creates images that bicycle is the most dangerous transportation, so you must wear bicycle helmets. As you see on a quiz above, to protects from any major head injuries all of the people should wear helmets as well include pedestrian and car driver. And may be wearing helmets inside home wouldn’t never be a good idea.

giro bicycle helmet

Bicycle helmets may provide some protection against minor skull fractures and lacerations, but they do not prevent major brain trauma that happens within the skull. In fact, because bicycle helmets are soft which increases friction in certain crashes, unlike motorcycle helmets, some studies have shown that they can cause neck and brain injuries from rotational motion (V J M St Clair, B P Chinn. 2007).