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From: darryl@ISM780.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Re: motorscooter advice? Helmet!
Message-ID: <28300024@ISM780.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 08:44:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 08:44:00 1985
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/* Written  5:19 pm  Aug 19, 1985 by prins@cornell in ISM780:net.cycle */
Just to keep things complicated.... 

At least one review article on motorcycle helmets suggested that the demanding 
requirements of the Snell test are biased towards race-track speed motorcycle
and car crashes.  These conditions are less representative of motorscooter
operation, I would think.
/* End of text from ISM780:net.cycle */

    Perhaps so, but the Snell '85 standards now separate the car racers
    from the motorcyclists.  The Snell M85 standard should be more
    represntative of what motorcyclists will need.  BTW, helmets can't
    possibly hope to help you survive a high speed impact into a stationary
    object (e.g., 55 mph into a concrete barricade, head first);  instead,
    they help you survive falling 5 feet onto the ground, head first.  With
    some luck, your body will be able to absorb all of the energy it takes
    to slow you down horizontally.

	    --Darryl Richman, INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.
	    ...!cca!ima!ism780!darryl
	    The views expressed above are my opinions only.