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Sunset Lowracer [TM] Fanatic wrote:


Next topic: Generator versus battery powered lights for urban cycle
commuting (be sure to cross-post to rec.bicycles.tech).


Is Campag better than Shimano?


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Tony

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right."
- Lord Hailsham

wrote:

Remember, that all the experts agree that helmets are very effective in
preventing head injuries in the event of a head impact crash.

For some values of "head injuries" including the very superficial ones,
and if you are saved some grazes then you can still claim the above even
if extra rotation on the neck has snapped it. So a rather dubious claim.

Pete.
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Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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Tony Raven wrote:
Sunset Lowracer [TM] Fanatic wrote:


Next topic: Generator versus battery powered lights for urban cycle
commuting (be sure to cross-post to rec.bicycles.tech).


Is Campag better than Shimano?

Does hard anodizing cause premature rim cracking due to its brittle
nature, or is rim cracking caused by excessive spoke tension?

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley
"Twisting may help if yawl can chew gum and walk." - G. Daniels

Peter Clinch, Medical Physics IT Officer, wrote:
wrote:

Remember, that all the experts agree that helmets are very effective in
preventing head injuries in the event of a head impact crash.

For some values of "head injuries" including the very superficial ones,
and if you are saved some grazes then you can still claim the above even
if extra rotation on the neck has snapped it. So a rather dubious claim.

I was wearing my bicycle h*lm*t when loading a bicycle into the back of
a minivan. I hit my head on the open hatch. If I had not been wearing a
h*lm*t, I undoubtedly would have suffered TEMPORARY MINOR DISCOMFORT!!!

A law should be passed requiring h*lm*t use when loading bicycles into
minivans.

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley
"Twisting may help if yawl can chew gum and walk." - G. Daniels

Sunset Lowracer [TM] Fanatic wrote:

Peter Clinch, Medical Physics IT Officer, wrote:
wrote:

Remember, that all the experts agree that helmets are very
effective in preventing head injuries in the event of a head impact
crash.

For some values of "head injuries" including the very superficial
ones, and if you are saved some grazes then you can still claim the
above even if extra rotation on the neck has snapped it. So a
rather dubious claim.

I was wearing my bicycle h*lm*t when loading a bicycle into the back
of a minivan. I hit my head on the open hatch. If I had not been
wearing a h*lm*t, I undoubtedly would have suffered TEMPORARY MINOR
DISCOMFORT!!!

A law should be passed requiring h*lm*t use when loading bicycles into
minivans.

I once tolchocked my gulliver upon a low pipe while walking across a
basement car park. Fortunately, I was wearing a MartleHat and was thus
unhurt. I have on more than one occasion done similar things in the lower
doorways of Dr Larrington's Country Residence, and sustained a lrge bump to
the bonce.

I am therefore going to lobby my MP to make MartleHats compulsory in car
parks and eighteenth century cottages in the Cotswolds.

--
Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
This Unit is a productive Unit.

Sunset Lowracer [TM] Fanatic wrote:

Does hard anodizing cause premature rim cracking due to its brittle
nature, or is rim cracking caused by excessive spoke tension?


I don't know about that but I do know you should always grease the
bottom bracket tapers when fitting the cranks ;-)



--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

Sunset Lowracer [TM] Fanatic wrote:
Peter Clinch, Medical Physics IT Officer, wrote:

wrote:


Remember, that all the experts agree that helmets are very effective in
preventing head injuries in the event of a head impact crash.

For some values of "head injuries" including the very superficial ones,
and if you are saved some grazes then you can still claim the above even
if extra rotation on the neck has snapped it. So a rather dubious claim.


I was wearing my bicycle h*lm*t when loading a bicycle into the back of
a minivan. I hit my head on the open hatch. If I had not been wearing a
h*lm*t, I undoubtedly would have suffered TEMPORARY MINOR DISCOMFORT!!!

A law should be passed requiring h*lm*t use when loading bicycles into
minivans.

--
Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley
"Twisting may help if yawl can chew gum and walk." - G. Daniels


What about just a law banning minivans?

Dave Larrington wrote:

I am therefore going to lobby my MP to make MartleHats compulsory in car
parks and eighteenth century cottages in the Cotswolds.


Is the wrong answer. What we need is better training for car parks and
eighteenth century cottages so that they don't hit you in the first
place. ;-)

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

On 21 Nov 2005 14:41:07 -0800, said in
.com:

Be sure to get a Snell approved helmet (B90 is the most commonly
available bicycle helmet).

The most commonly available helmet in the US is CPSC certified, not
Snell, and B95 is the current standard. In most of Europe, Snell
certified helmets are all but unobtainable.

Here is a list of Snell certified helmets:
http://www.smf.org/certlist/std_B-90...90C_B-95C.html

Note the lack of any products from the market leader, Bell Sports.

Guy
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"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:50:06 +0000, Peter Clinch
said in :

Remember, that all the experts agree that helmets are very effective in
preventing head injuries in the event of a head impact crash.

For some values of "head injuries" including the very superficial ones,

And for values of "all" which excludes the numerous experts who
disagree :-)

Guy
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simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken