Timeline for What are the reasons for and against wearing a bicycle helmet?
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| Sep 15, 2011 at 12:34 | comment | added | lawndartcatcher | Helmet shells are designed to separate from the shell and prevent this kind of injury. The old golf-ball helmets may have had this issue (although styrofoam disintegrates when dragged along pavement) any modern helmet won't have this issue. | |
| Dec 11, 2010 at 0:41 | comment | added | Jay Bazuzi | @David no I don't have any such research. | |
| Dec 10, 2010 at 5:52 | comment | added | David LeBauer | I heard this said in the 80's about the old styrofoam helmets that had a separate lycra cover, that the styrofoam would stick to the road. But I don't think it is any longer valid. @Jay do you have any research to back this up? At the same time I have heard that the main benefits of the leather helmets over no helmet at all is that they reduce this risk. | |
| Oct 26, 2010 at 1:06 | comment | added | Tom Stephens | While there are numerous injuries that can actually be caused by wearing a seatbelt, I once heard a traffic officer claim that he has never had to unbuckle a dead person from their automobile... Think about this one. | |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 6:21 | comment | added | LanceH | This is generally why helmets (of all kinds) are slick on the outside, so they don't stick to surfaces and wrench the neck. It can happen, but a glancing blow is far more likely to be the cause of injury than twisting the neck. | |
| S Oct 18, 2010 at 3:25 | history | answered | Jay Bazuzi | CC BY-SA 2.5 | |
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