Re: [CR]Helmet for Classic Rider?

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Chater-Lea)

From: "Diane Feldman" <feldmanbike@home.com>
To: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>, <bulger@erim-int.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <bd.c44c209.27d51f00@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Helmet for Classic Rider?
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:00:38 -0800


I used to tell customers that a Brancale (which I intentionally mispronounced "brain kill") was a "helmet replica," and that Bells were real
helmets.
David Feldman


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To: bulger@erim-int.com
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [CR]Helmet for Classic Rider?



> 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