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Who’s a Maltese? Did he play with your balls?
Have a little respect and stop acting like you started the sport last year cat 3/4 filler.
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I heard Greg Olson went to the hospital due to an accident today how is he?
Hope he’s okay, but what’s up with wearing a 380 gram track helmet with no ventilation in a road race.
Spent about 30min getting checked out by the EMT’s before they told me I was ok to go. Very sore and can’t really walk now that the adreneline has worn off.
My head hit the pavement extremely hard and I honestly believe my much maligned Casco is the only reason I do not have a concussion right now. To me that is worth the extra 100g and the ridicule.
Thank you for your concern.
Glad to hear you’re ok. Hope you heal quickly?
Are track helmets better protection than normal road ones? I didn’t know that. You may start a trend.
As much as people believe that helmets protect against concussions, I don’t believe that’s the case. A helmet is meant to protect your skull from being fractured, thus the helmet cracks versus your skull. A concussion, however, is your brain rapidly moving and banging against the inside of your skull. This will occur when your head is hit hard enough with or without a helmet. I think Olson just hit his head in a way that he fortunately did not suffer the symptoms of concussion.
Ok, then does a track helmet help prevent my skull from fracturing less than a road helmet?
when the helmet material absorbs energy from the impact, it saves your brain from being hurled against your skull with the same force it would have sans helmet.
if the only helmets that protected your brain from concussion broke upon impact as opposed to re-distributing the energy from the impact, why don’t motorcyclist wear them?
bicycle helmets & motorcycle helmets both have the same “active ingredient”, expanded polystyrene, which compresses only once to absorb impact and redistribute force. Both are considered to be destroyed after one crash. bicycle helmets have to protect the head but still dissipate a lot of heat.
football/hockey helmets have to be able to deal with repeated impacts so they use air or other types of foam which spring back after impact.
the opposite of the sandbagger is the teabagger
the opposite of a schmalz is a schlitz (mmmm….)