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From: jeff@dual.UUCP (Jeff Houston)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Helmet reviews
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 16:44:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 16:44:01 1984
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Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA
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I tend to be of the crowd that doesn't use cycling helmets.  This is
probably due to having a very thick head, oh well.  Helmets do help
and are recommended by just about everyone even the folks I usually
ride with, namely bike racers.  Most of the time racers, myself included,
ride with no helmet, but when its race time everyone has one on their head!
Racers prefer using the leather hair-nets for protection, the main reason
I can see is that in most cases when you're racing and crash you will
usually slide along the ground and the helmet will provide a surface to
slide on other than the side of your head.  I admit that this isn't
saying much for the intelligence of most racing cyclists but the prefer
to bank on their own riding skill to keep them out of most potential crashes.

I have graduated from a leather hair-net to a Brancale hard shell model
for additional protection and have also tried the MSR helmet.  I have
found the Brancale helmet reasonably comfortable and never to warm. The
MSR Helmet is quite a bit bulkier and rather warm on the old head if the
weather heats up any, although it does offer quite a bit more protection.
Any sanctioned racing requires all riders to use some sort of helmet but
just which model is always up to the rider.

	Jeff Houston
	Dual Systems Corp., Berkeley, CA
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