True the Skid Lid and Brancale didn't have a sophisitcated design, but please raise your hands if your neck still aches from holding up your head with a solid lead Bell Biker attached to it---. The minimal ventilation is another reason you often saw the Biker securely strapped to the luggage rack on hot days, too. Thank goodness lighter designs quickly supplanted this "heavy" of my early years.
Tom Adams, Shrewsbury NJ
ritzmon@aol.com wrote: Mark said,
snipConsumers Reports?) about helmet testing. Don't remember who did the testing either.
Anyway, they used some sort of an accellerometer, inside a head shaped weight which was dropped from 3 feet and 6 feet. IRRC the weight was on an arm so they could control where it hit, and it wasn't in the top.
When they dropped the SL from 3 feet they got higher readings than with the other helmets at 6 feet. They did not test the SL at 6 feet for fear of damaging their equipment.>end snip.
It was Bike World magazine and the SkidLid was the only helmet tested thatr actually INCREASED the readings over a bare head...
Cheers, Mark "used to wear a Brancale" Ritz Arcata, CA home of the Great Kinetic Sculpture Race this weekend
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