Helmets

[Waylander]

I hear they nead more rubbish collectors.....



Try being a geotechnical technition, you dont nead any skills for that job All I do is sit around and play cards all day

While it might be fun to get paid to play cards, I've been doin to much of that already. I need a job where I actually do something productive. (no offense) Just don't like having nothing to do... Goin up for an interview tomorrow to deliver milk.

[The Pastor]

While it might be fun to get paid to play cards, I've been doin to much of that already. I need a job where I actually do something productive. (no offense) Just don't like having nothing to do...

What has this world come to??

[jrandom]

What has this world come to??

... where a 21-year-old male can be studying for an engineering degree and, at the SAME TIME, want to do real work for a paying job? Dreadful, isn't it. You'd better make sure you keep standing as a lonely beacon in this encroaching darkness.

[sAsLEX]

... where a 21-year-old male can be studying for an engineering degree and, at the SAME TIME, want to do real work for a paying job? Dreadful, isn't it. You'd better make sure you keep standing as a lonely beacon in this encroaching darkness.

i kinda fit that bill!!!

[Waylander]

... where a 21-year-old male can be studying for an engineering degree and, at the SAME TIME, want to do real work for a paying job? Dreadful, isn't it. You'd better make sure you keep standing as a lonely beacon in this encroaching darkness.

Not only that but I am from the states aswell, where peaple are fat lazy and feel the urge to sue you for some silly reason like eating fast food making you fatter.....

[jrandom]

Not only that but I am from the states aswell, where peaple are fat lazy and feel the urge to sue you for some silly reason like eating fast food making you fatter.....

In 'Super Size Me', wasn't Houston reported to be the fattest city in the USA?

I get the impression that it's not so much that EVERYONE is fat, as that when they do get fat, they get REEEEEAAAAAL fat.

And now I have that Weird Al Yankovic song stuck in my head.

[The Pastor]

... where a 21-year-old male can be studying for an engineering degree and, at the SAME TIME, want to do real work for a paying job? Dreadful, isn't it. You'd better make sure you keep standing as a lonely beacon in this encroaching darkness.

Im doing the same thing, just in civil, and when it rains I get to play cards. Its a really good job esp. since they are paying for uni. too.


Just keep in mind this;

Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a bannana

[Biff]

In 'Super Size Me', wasn't Houston reported to be the fattest city in the USA?

I went to Houston last year, and I must admit to walking around in absolute horror at the size of some of the people I saw. Whenever I think back to the sights I saw while there (and I didn't see many, are there any apart from the odd sports stadium? A genuine question), all I see is fat people.

[Gasman]

Hey everyone,


Its bean a while. I sold my zxr and am now looking at somthing better.


My question is, would my old helmet look stupid on a cruiser or chopper? In my mind its kind of a sports bike type helmet.
What do you guys reckon?


EDIT: Thanks firestormer for the helmet and gloves

Who cares, as long as your'e safe. Ever seen the chin of a guy wearing an open face helmet after a session on the tarmac? Not a pretty site!

[Jackrat]

Who cares, as long as your'e safe. Ever seen the chin of a guy wearing an open face helmet after a session on the tarmac? Not a pretty site!

Ever seen the head of a 200+kph sportbike rider after it hit the road.
Horses for courses I think.

[scumdog]

Who cares, as long as your'e safe. Ever seen the chin of a guy wearing an open face helmet after a session on the tarmac? Not a pretty site!

In some ways it seems like you might as well be in a cage when wearing a full-face.

Case in point: I decided for a change to wear my full-face (weather had a potential to turn wet) when I went to Roxburgh to catch up with Jantar, Lynda Blair and Hamish yesterday.

On the way back I saw a cage go past in the opposite direction and thought I recognised it so went to look in the mirror to see who it might be.

What did I do? I glanced up at the top left of my visor to look in the mirror (well that's the approximate location for the mirror in a cage) then realised I wasn't in a cage at all!! Duh!

[Ixion]

I sometimes think that bikers place too much confidence in helmets (especially expensive ones). Yes, maybe it cost $1000, and can absorb x amount of impact.

But, where is all that impact going? It has to be taken up by your neck, which can only absorb so much force. Beyond that point the spine breaks or compresses.

And apart from that, hit something hard enough with your head, and you'll die , even though your helmet is intact. Because your brain wobbles about inside your skull, like an orange on a drinking straw. Hit your head hard, and the brain bounces off the inside of the skull. Do it hard enough and the brain damage will be fatal. It's called (I think) contra-coup injury

I sometimes sense an unstated (and doubtless unarticulated) notion of " Well, I've spent $x000 on really good gear, so if (when ?) I bin, I should be OK ". Which IMHO is rather a dangerous notion.

Interestingly, bikers are not the first people to come up against this "helmets limitation in preventing head injury" problem.

Mediaeval knights had the same issue (though in their case it wasn't falling off, it was other blokes wacking them over the head with horrid great maces and swords)

What they did, they extended the helmet down and put a ridge on the bottom, and if the helmet was hit hard, it moved down a bit so the ridge came up against their shoulder armour. So the force of the blow was transmitted through to the shoulders. You can take a hell of an impact on your shoulders. This saved their neck, and by "locking up" the head so it didn't move, helped reduce contra coup.

Don't know how this could be extended to motorcycle helmets though

[flyin]

In some ways it seems like you might as well be in a cage when wearing a full-face.

Case in point: I decided for a change to wear my full-face (weather had a potential to turn wet) when I went to Roxburgh to catch up with Jantar, Lynda Blair and Hamish yesterday.

On the way back I saw a cage go past in the opposite direction and thought I recognised it so went to look in the mirror to see who it might be.

What did I do? I glanced up at the top left of my visor to look in the mirror (well that's the approximate location for the mirror in a cage) then realised I wasn't in a cage at all!! Duh!

u'r still sitting on top of a bigass motor with nothin holdin you on and a couple cms of traction holdin you on the road..... not much like a cage at all really is it?!?!

- hehe yeah i look for my rear view mirror occasionly after getting out of the cage...... feels real stupid when your walking along a!....... i want wingmirrors on my sunnies......

[Big Dave]

I have a good open face Davida jet helmet and a Shoei XR900 full face.

The open face is for cruising, low speed around town riding. Better peripheral vision and a much better riding experience. It slows me down, a lot - because I know it isn't as safe - but I'm comfortable with the decision.

When i'm hard at it - sports riding, testing bikes, full face and full kit.

There isn't a right answer - just assess the level of risk, type of riding and make an appropriate decison for the conditions.

Open faces suck in the rain.

I'd also wear no helmet sometimes if i was allowed. It should be MY decision.

bd

[Ixion]

..
- i want wingmirrors on my sunnies......

Years and years and years ago, I wasted a bit of money on these little mirrors that you clipped onto the rims of your Mk VIII's (goggles for you youngsters).

Wonderful idea, just flick your eyes sideways to see behind.

Needless to say it was a complete waste of money. Just didn't work.

Ah well, back to the drawing board