Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ISM780.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!cca!ISM780!darryl 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 Article-I.D.: ISM780.28300024 Posted: Wed Aug 21 08:44:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 19:01:54 EDT References: <11@cornell.UUCP> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:cornell:-1100:ISM780:28300024:000:1093 Nf-From: ISM780!darryl Aug 21 08:44:00 1985 /* 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.