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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!quadsys!roland
- From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
- Subject: Re: HELMETS
- Message-ID: <By209y.49F@quadsys.com>
- Organization: QUAD Systems
- References: <1992Nov18.121615.3330@cs.hw.ac.uk> <1992Nov19.001059.7670@megatek.com> <1992Nov19.033924.25567@spdc.ti.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:49:10 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Nov19.033924.25567@spdc.ti.com> serafin@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Mike Serafin) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.001059.7670@megatek.com> randy@megatek.com writes:
- >>In article 3330@cs.hw.ac.uk, geirs@cs.hw.ac.uk (Geir Solvang) writes:
- >>|But why on earth would anyone *NOT* wear a helmet.
- >>
-
- >Oh horse shit! If you don't want to wear a helmet then that is your
- >preference, but don't try to justify your position by arguing the same tired
- >old vision and hearing theories. A helmet does not limit your forward or
- >perpherial vision. DOT requires all helmets to meet a minimum p-vision of 105
- >degrees, I don't know to many folks that have p-vision beyond 90 degrees. As
- >for the noise, by wearing the helmet you are afforded protection from hearing
- >damage so you don't need to remove it to hear. Even wearing a helmet I hear
- >much more of what's going on around me than I ever do in the cage. And as for
- >your statement about not needing one below 40 mph, that is absolute and utter
- >bull (cow?) shit. The only time I ever dumped a bike I was doing 35-40 and if
- >it weren't for the helmet I would not have been able to pick the bike up and
- >ride home.
- >
- >If you want to ride without a helmet, fine. Get the leg. to repeal the helmet
- >laws and go splatter your brains on some highway, I won't stop you. But quit
- >trying to justify the fact that you are not being the most intelligent person
- >in the world. I really don't know why the government insists on protecting
- >the less intelligent from themselves any. I say leave it up to natural
- >selection, Darwin WAS right, you know.
-
- Finally a voice of reason. Couldn't have said it better. Having riding without
- a helmet a couple of times, just to see what all this 'can't hear/can't see'
- BS is all about, I know that virtually any sound is masked by wind and engine
- noise at speeds over 30mph. As stated, the argument that a helme impairs
- vision is so obviously and utterly false, it discredits anyone using it.
-
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-
- Roland Besserer
- QUAD Systems
- roland@quadsys.com
-