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- From: svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda)
- Subject: Re: HELMETS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.160519.12423@rtsg.mot.com>
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- References: <1992Nov19.001059.7670@megatek.com> <1992Nov19.033924.25567@spdc.ti.com> <By209y.49F@quadsys.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:05:19 GMT
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- In article <By209y.49F@quadsys.com> roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer) writes:
- |>
- |>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.
-
- Anyone? When you can climb inside my head, and ride on MY bike,using MY
- perceptions, you can speak for me. At the moment, you are showing yourself
- you be a control freak, and completely without recognition that people are
- different, and use their senses differently.
-
- One very good article here rightly stated that hearing at speed is affected
- by physiological differences like ear shape, and I can certainly testify
- that a good fairing and a quiet engine (called a Kawasaki Concours) can
- give quite good hearing at anything up to about highway speed with no helmet.
-
- After that, it makes no difference, as I wear earplugs.
-
- As for vision, I challenge you to ride in a car with a helmet. In fact, just
- to show the difference in hearing it makes, have your SO ride in the passenger
- seat, also with a helmet on. Just try to carry on a simply conversation,
- and watch those blind spots!
-
- Dave Svoboda (svoboda@void.rtsg.mot.com) | "I just can't take
- 90 Concours 1000 (Mmmmmmmmmm!) | this weird shit
- 84 RZ 350 (Ring Ding) (Woops!) | before breakfast!"
- AMA 583905 DoD #0330 COG 939 (Chicago) | -- Evo Woman
-