Re: [CR]Helmet for Classic Rider?

(Example: Framebuilding:Brazing Technique)

From: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:55:28 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]Helmet for Classic Rider?
To: bulger@erim-int.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 3/5/2001 9:42:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, bulger@erim-int.com writes:

<< Skid Lid. >>

There was a tremendous stink in the bike press and industry over SkidLid helmets when they were being sold.

They used springy, rebounding foam rather than the harder, destroys-itself-in-saving- your-head stuff. They argued long and vociferously that they used helicopter pilot helmets technology and that their design was the real trick. Meanwhile Bell was bring automotive and motorcycle technology to the fray with their Bell Biker cranium protector.

There were two Camps.. The boingy foam SkidLid proponents versus the crushable foam gang, Bailen, Bell and I think MSR (Mountain Safety Research) We know who won. But SkidLid didn't go out without a lot of rhetorical fights!

Of course then there was the Oh so conformable Brancale hard plastic helmet. Maybe that is where the affectionate term "sweat bucket" came from!

Dale Brown