Man... you've got to love the Internet... I just wanted to go to bed and suddenly I fell into an unknown rabbithole. Instead of going to bed I lie on my couch drink Whiskey and watch videos about hats while thinking that I actually really learn something about history and culture. Thank you for another great evening on RUclips. 😅
Thinking that you learn about history? This is hostory! A history of one of the most important part of modern life that has fallen by the wayside as of late, but still learning about the history of anything is important
I’m just so grateful I could have a fleeting curiosity in life and can just pull up my phone and find things like this to satiate my thirst. Thank you (to the video creator, whoever you are!)
Since 1986, I wear a cycling helmet every time I ride, regardless how short the journey. They were mandated for amateur racing in my area that year, and I purchased a new Vetta helmet. Not light, not stylish, not cool, but it saved my life just 2 weeks into training with it. At the end of a 40 mile ride, on a long downhill run with a strong tailwind, I was nudged off the road by a motorist in Denton, Texas. I hit a curb, and over handlebars I flew. My then state-of-the-art Cateye Solar cylcocomputer showed 38mph seconds before I was hit, and my helmet's foam liner was compressed from an inch thick to about a 1/4 inch on the left side. The shell was also fractured in several places. Diagnosed with only a mild concussion, I felt lousy for a week or so, with a bad headache for several days. I'm still cycling, and will always don my chapeau before I go anywhere on two wheels. 😁 Happy Trails, be safe, have fun!
I had an accident on my bike while wearing a helmet some years ago in the heart of Toronto, at Yonge and St. Clair. I hit some sand - left over from winter sanding operations - at some speed and wound up partially going over the handlebars and striking my head on the tarmac road surface. The helmet I was wearing cracked, but it saved my head. I fell with sufficient force that the handlebars ruptured my gallbladder, which I painfully found out about latter and had to have removed. I'm 63 years old now and still ride a bike. I always wear my helmet.
I've destroyed two bicycle helmets; The first in a head on crash with another bicyclist coming around a blind corner, it split in the center of the forehead portion. The second when I went down on ice while turning into my driveway during a St.Paul, Minnesota winter ride. Again the foam split and was visibly deformed above my ear. I am also an avid motorcyclist and I wouldn't dream of riding without a helmet. Helmets have saved me from mental impairment, if not death, on a few occasions. I wear one for the same reason that some people refuse to wear one, vanity!
Ah, le casque à boudin. So elegant! In the 70s, my father, a former cycling champion, told me to wear it garnished with cabbage leaves during races under the sun. Very becoming... with a very persistent slight smell of cabbage. My helmet is now in a display case in my personal museum. Bravo once again for this presentation. We are looking forward the story of Sherlock Holmes' deerstalker, elementary. Merci d'avance.
If you need to replace your helmet after an accident, the manufacturer might be very happy to have you send the old one to them along with a description of the accident and any injuries you had. I'd imagine they'd be particularly interested if the helmet performs particularly poorly (like falling apart in a relatively minor accident) or well (like preventing major concussion from a high speed accident) because that's useful for their research and improving the design, but they probably want some examples of helmets performing as expected too. Some manufacturers might even offer a discount on the next helmet if you send them the old one. Different manufacturers have different programs, so it's probably best to just ask the shop where you bought the helmet about it. (You're most likely going to talk to them anyway about a new helmet)
Mountain Safety Research (MSR) produced the first modern bicycle helmet a year before Bell, adapting their climbing helmet technology to the job. I had one. MSR offered a lifetime replacement for helmets involved in accidents. The design was much different from current bike helmets, with a rigid outer shell, relatively small holes for ventilation, etc., but they did get there first. Bell claimed that their helmet was superior, but MSR challenged the validity of their testing.
One of my favorite niche interests is the history of how different industries--recreational and industrial--have influenced each other over the decades in terms of design AND culture. Really beautiful interplays of creativity and competition, all with meaningful and valuable results for end-users!
As a resident of the first place in the world to make them compulsory I always wear mine (also the fine for not wearing one here is equivalent to over £100 / USD$120). 😢Thanks for the video :).
Am an avid cyclist, and I can testify that helmets have saved my head many times. From falls against the road surface, sidewalk curbs, and a fire hydrant (once). I suggest cyclists treat helmets as one-use items; that is, if it saved your head once, it did its job. It is damaged. Trash it and buy another.
The most expensive bicycle ( or motorcycle) helmet is still far cheaper than the cheapest ambulance ride and hospital visit . BTW, all helmets ( that are designed for protection ) are only effective for a couple of years regardless of how they look as the plastics they are made from break down no matter how well you take care of them. A new helmet should be bought every 2 years or so and make certain you check the date of manufacture ( it should be inside your helmet if its a Snell/DOT approved helmet) to make certain the new helmet you are buying hasn't been sitting in inventory for more than a few months . Unapproved helmets are as useful in an accident as a baseball cap as far as your survivability in an accident is concerned . Finally,, make sure your helmet fits properly, and that you have put it on correctly . Good video, btw.
A common EMS joke is that we hope we never see you. Excellent point that we didn't have time to include in this guest spot--it doesn't take a super expensive helmet to protect your cranium and they DO need to be replaced on a regular basis regardless of use. In fact, I was t-boned in my car and had a bike helmet sitting in the backseat, and my bike shop (and I) made the very easy deicisoin to declare the helmet finished since it rattled around on impact. Better safe than sorry.
You wear it for the accidents you can't predict. Which is a problem, because most people think they already are predicting everything that will be happening to them in the next few minutes. In reality, though, there are so many unknown variables when riding a bicycle that it is impossible to be 100% capable of knowing what is going to happen next.
Alors, on se lance tête baissé dans l'humour visuel ? 😁 (je l'aurais bien vu en style "film muet" en noir et blanc) Encore une fois très intéressant ! 🎩 (And thanks Alainna for your scientific point of view)
Here in the Netherlands, you can instantly recognize tourists by the bicycle helmet. Absolutely no one except sporting people wears one, since motor traffic is only allowed close to bikers at 30-50 km/h at the most. Beyond that, bicycle lanes are separate from motor lanes. The helmet is therefore mostly seen as typical of people who either don't know how to ride, or come from countries without proper bicycle infrastructure.
IIRC, you all tend to ride heavier, more practical bikes there too. In the US, for whatever reason, people tend to ride lightweight mountain bikes that provide less stability at low, city-riding speeds. The change in the center of gravity and overall weight distribution makes a big difference. I'd love a chunky 3-wheeler with a grocery basket on the back, but they don't really sell them here.
I commute by bike in the UK in a major city and compared to the infrastructure I'm familiar with in Belgium our attitude to bikes is absolutely pitiful. Cycle lanes are nothing more than a vague concept, a bit of white line occasionally on the road for a few dozen metres and even the ones separated from the car traffic by a curb are full of pedestrians or parked vehicles or roadworks. I definitely wouldn't ride here without a helmet but I think it says a lot about the wider cultural attitude
I had an old bell biker back in the day. When I was racing from the late 80’s - early 90’s everyone was wearing helmets, usually the Giro design with covered by stretchy fabric that was popular at the time, as it was very lightweight.
Merci de votre patience en attendant la version française. Le retard était entièrement dû à moi. Heureusement pour vous, Jean-Charles sait très bien traquer son commentateur médical avec un filet à papillons pour que vous puissiez éventuellement regarder Le Casque !
The old hairnet helmet is also often referred to as a sausage helmet, for obvious reasons. Improved suspension techniques have been introduced to reduce risk of concussion from oblique impacts. And very recent developments in time trial-specific models take aerodynamic considerations to ridiculous levels. Worth Googling if you haven't seen them already.
😂🤣 BRILLIANT intro, lol ... and oh yeah, I've technically had my life saved by a bicycle helmet TWICE; once while ~8-10 or so and slamming into a metal fire hydrant that would have torn my skull open, and then 2015 when a truck going 42mph (67kph?) slammed into me on the road and gave me a traumatic brain injury Oh yeah, and somebody else hit me in a parking lot later, but that didn't save my life; that one was low-speed Very important piece of equipment!!!
The worst cycling injury I've witnessed in the wild was a head-on collision between two cyclists going less than 10mph. Never underestimate the power of mechanism independent of speed. So glad you are okay after your multiple experiences!
As someone who bikes regularly, thank you for the informative and interesting video on the biking helmet. Have you considered doing a video on the American football helmet?
I wish RUclips had shown my your channel earlier. Great to see some hat history and was surprised to see it extended to the cycle helmet. I'd love to see a video on the 8-point hat and how it filtered down from the military to gas station attendants and milk deliverypeople...
I didnt wear a helmet for a long time, until i slipped on ice and got a concussion so bad I lost my job from being off sick. I recently fell off my bike and my helmet prevented a 3rd bike related concussion.
I've only recently learned to ride a bicycle. Wearing a helmet is important. Although I've never been in an accident. It's better to be safe than sorry. Or worse, dead.
That is interresting to me, that the expert says it is better to let the helmet on until arrival in the emergency. Here in Germany every participant of first aid courses learns how to take off helmets carefully and are told that it is important and time saving if the helmet is off by the arrival of the paramedics, because they would take it off anyway as their first job to fully inspect the person. Maybe this is different for bike helmets, as they are not enclosing the head as a full face motorcycle helmet would do.
I love your work. But lets not mince our words, the biggest risk to people on bikes is cars. Helmets can reduce the trauma from hitting the windshield or pavement. Car speed is the biggest factor here. Helmets can save lives.
Even in the NL, the countries brain surgeons are pleading with the government to pass law. Not wearing one is only vanity. Let be honest & truthful. Been wearing long before laws & always do. Not all car crashes with bikes are head on, and in North America with the large SUV’s & trucks, there’s not much flipping over the hood anymore. That was old safety standard when people drove cars.
When it comes to helmet wearing on bicycles I tend to only wear them for off roading which in my case is the time when most incidents have happened. However for everything else I tend not to bother with one as in those cases I'm spending more time off rather on the bike, simply using it for transport (and abit of leisure). Ride with the assumption you are invisible (which you probably are in a lot of cases) while actually following the road rules and you'll be fine in my experience. Although to be fair I don't tend to ride if it's quite icy or race at all, in which case I would likely wear a helmet.
Mz Brown or Dr Brown, not sure if you are a an MD yet, but i had a question as a Military Medic. It makes perfect sense to leave the helmet on after a significant impact due to the possible severity of fractures that maybe stay anatomically in place due to it. Would there still be times that removing it still make sense? I can think of a couple but that makes more sense in hospital than prehospital. And in military it is dependant on many factures but typically we remove quickly during assessments and replace because the situation dictates they still need protection, but i can also see if CSF and the triad is present to assume more severe TBI, espcialiy with lower Glasgow Coma Scale Numbers, and leave it on unless we needed to treat a penetrating injury. Thoughts?
Heya Doc, thank you for your question. I'm not an MD yet (soooon) and all of my emergency care experience is prehospital (BLS EMT, WFR, W-EMT) and civilian. In terms of prehospital vs. hospital removal, and based on the EMS protocols under which I've practiced, we typically want to transfer pts to definitive care with helmets still in place if possible. This is because head imaging lets the ED have more insight into potential injury that could decompensate upon helmet removel. That imaging allows for helmet removal consistent with the degree of injury likely or known to be present. Operational med protocols are, as you noted, often different because of the nature of the practical setting. One super interesting space for comparing civilian and military emergency medicine is wilderness medicine--I know I've seen a number of REALLY interesting talks and journal articles out of the Wilderness Medical Society where this has come up! Highly recommend. (And I believe that WMS's Journal of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine is open-access!)
@AlainnaBrennanBrown I have wanted to do Wildernes Medicine and once I get back from my deployment I may talk with my county and try to work with CERT as a team leader or just additional training with them. But in the future I wanted to do SAR and Wilderness Medicine.
Supposedly the additional risk from wearing a helmet is less from the rider and more from the drivers of cars who will drive closer to riders wearing helmets.
There is a substantial body of literature around the association of helmet-wearing and driver behavior. My personal take as a mixed-methods design researcher is that much of the quantitative inquiry is either strong or generally well-debated. HOWEVER, in most of the studies with which I'm familiar, my take is that there are sufficiently many qualitative factors for which the studies don't account (or, based on a given study's methods, regardless of how appropriate to the question and of how appropriately-applied, for which they CANNOT account) that basing real-world decisions on those studies' outcomes in a vacuum may not be appropriate. Context is everything. What may be a more meaningful application of such research could be in driver and cyclist education, pointing at human tendencies rather than at specific decision-making criteria. In contrast to this, *the benefits of wearing helmets have been demonstrated strongly and consistently through a plurality of research lenses, and clinical and designerly recommendations are solidly in favor of wearing bicyle helmets.*
It should be noted that the leather “hairnet” was preferred by racing cyclists up through the ‘80’s and ‘90’s, with the last users retiring in the early 2000’s. Racing cyclists (especially pros) are very tradition-bound as well as being very hesitant to use anything that may negatively affect their performance (I.e. a hot, heavy hard shell helmet)…this,combined with a bit of machismo is what led to the slow adoption of a “real” helmet when compared to so many other sports.
hmm, when I was racing in the us in the late 80’s / early 90’s everyone was wearing helmets, usually the Giro style with Lycra over foam at first. Pretty sure that it was required but don’t recall exactly. Every now and then you’d see a guy with a leather helmet, usually in the senior class and pretty rarely. Can’t remember seeing one in the current century.
@@PRH123 Hardshells we’re required for amateurs in the U.S.A by the mid ‘80’s, but NOT required for pros until the early 2000’s, which was what my original comment was referring to.🚴🏻
Cycle helmets are a very effective measure at preventing head injury, in countries that mandate them 30% of riders permanently quit cycling altogether, to an offsetting reduction in overall health for the population that costs more lives than the helmets save. Actually makes sense for them to remain optional. Encourage them by all means, but before mandating them consider that a significant minority of riders find them unbearable to wear & will leave the bicycle at home in preference.
From what I understand, at least in the Netherlands The idea of helmets providing a false sense security does not just apply to the cyclists. But more important to the car drivers. Most deadly accidents for cyclists include being hit by a car and protecting the head is a bit dubious when you get hit by a car. So the real false sense of security is drivers thinking that cyclists are protected and being less careful around them.
Protected my head when I was hit by a car, I wouldn’t be here now without that helmet The myth about drivers paying attention to helmets is due to a very poor and sloppy paper released in Australia, nobody believes it
I don't wear them. In all the times (lots) I've fallen off a bicycle, I've never once landed on my head. You generally don't go fast enough to do so at regular cycling speeds, and the helmet causes overheating and sensory issues that cause accidents. The one time I DID hit my head, it was at an angle the helmet wouldn't have connected with the wall anyway. And even if it had, the wall would have just shredded it into powder on the way to my face. A motorbike helmet is a different matter. Not only are you moving way faster, but they're much more effective, and you ALSO need to stop bugs, bits of road, water, and objects thrown from cars from hitting you in the face at high speed.
I think context is everything here. The worst cycling accident I've ever witnessed was two experienced cyclists hitting each other head-on going less than 10mph on a local bike path while on leisurely weekend afternoon rides. Regarding the shredding-angle impact, that's actually the helmet's job: just like how cars are manufactured more or less to smash apart in the act of absorbing the impact of a collision so that your body doesn't absorb it, helmets can and often do break apart in the act of absorbing impact so that the force to your body (in this case, your skull and its contents) is markedly reduced. (Always happy to chat more!)
@@AlainnaBrennanBrown I've been cycling since I could balance one, and on three wheels before that. I've put lots of thought into the use of helmets, and decided it caused more harm than it would solve. I'd rather be able to see and avoid issues. After 7 years of motorbiking, I won't move the thing under it's own power without a helmet on, and ideally full gear. I'm very wary of sitting on it at all with no helmet, so I'm very careful moving it out the garage for washing and maintenance.
I wear a bicycle helmet and recommend everybody should. But it should not be compulsory. A person driving a car is more likely to cause the death of a bicyclist than a bicyclist without helmet.
I had the ability to bike commute in earnest for a few years in my early 20s abnd was lucky enough to have access to a shower at work. About 6 months in, I without a second thought just chopped my hair into a pixie cut because I was tired of how long it took to clean myself up before going into my office.
Was kind of a thing going on at the end of the 19th century, I think it was more humor in the press than people actually believing it. There were also articles about tennis face, and hiking face, etc…. I think it was the same kind of thing that you often see today, when overweight lazy people complain about “Lycra clad cyclists”…. they project their guilt about their lifestyle onto resentment towards active people…
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Man... you've got to love the Internet... I just wanted to go to bed and suddenly I fell into an unknown rabbithole. Instead of going to bed I lie on my couch drink Whiskey and watch videos about hats while thinking that I actually really learn something about history and culture. Thank you for another great evening on RUclips. 😅
Thinking that you learn about history? This is hostory! A history of one of the most important part of modern life that has fallen by the wayside as of late, but still learning about the history of anything is important
I’m just so grateful I could have a fleeting curiosity in life and can just pull up my phone and find things like this to satiate my thirst. Thank you (to the video creator, whoever you are!)
Since 1986, I wear a cycling helmet every time I ride, regardless how short the journey. They were mandated for amateur racing in my area that year, and I purchased a new Vetta helmet. Not light, not stylish, not cool, but it saved my life just 2 weeks into training with it. At the end of a 40 mile ride, on a long downhill run with a strong tailwind, I was nudged off the road by a motorist in Denton, Texas. I hit a curb, and over handlebars I flew. My then state-of-the-art Cateye Solar cylcocomputer showed 38mph seconds before I was hit, and my helmet's foam liner was compressed from an inch thick to about a 1/4 inch on the left side. The shell was also fractured in several places. Diagnosed with only a mild concussion, I felt lousy for a week or so, with a bad headache for several days. I'm still cycling, and will always don my chapeau before I go anywhere on two wheels. 😁 Happy Trails, be safe, have fun!
I had an accident on my bike while wearing a helmet some years ago in the heart of Toronto, at Yonge and St. Clair. I hit some sand - left over from winter sanding operations - at some speed and wound up partially going over the handlebars and striking my head on the tarmac road surface.
The helmet I was wearing cracked, but it saved my head.
I fell with sufficient force that the handlebars ruptured my gallbladder, which I painfully found out about latter and had to have removed.
I'm 63 years old now and still ride a bike. I always wear my helmet.
What a novel surprise. Never expected a Bicycle Helmet video. It is a brilliant and clever turn of events on the Hat Historian channel.
I've destroyed two bicycle helmets; The first in a head on crash with another bicyclist coming around a blind corner, it split in the center of the forehead portion. The second when I went down on ice while turning into my driveway during a St.Paul, Minnesota winter ride. Again the foam split and was visibly deformed above my ear. I am also an avid motorcyclist and I wouldn't dream of riding without a helmet. Helmets have saved me from mental impairment, if not death, on a few occasions. I wear one for the same reason that some people refuse to wear one, vanity!
Smart...& thanks for sharing
Ah, le casque à boudin. So elegant! In the 70s, my father, a former cycling champion, told me to wear it garnished with cabbage leaves during races under the sun. Very becoming... with a very persistent slight smell of cabbage. My helmet is now in a display case in my personal museum. Bravo once again for this presentation. We are looking forward the story of Sherlock Holmes' deerstalker, elementary. Merci d'avance.
If you need to replace your helmet after an accident, the manufacturer might be very happy to have you send the old one to them along with a description of the accident and any injuries you had. I'd imagine they'd be particularly interested if the helmet performs particularly poorly (like falling apart in a relatively minor accident) or well (like preventing major concussion from a high speed accident) because that's useful for their research and improving the design, but they probably want some examples of helmets performing as expected too. Some manufacturers might even offer a discount on the next helmet if you send them the old one.
Different manufacturers have different programs, so it's probably best to just ask the shop where you bought the helmet about it. (You're most likely going to talk to them anyway about a new helmet)
Mountain Safety Research (MSR) produced the first modern bicycle helmet a year before Bell, adapting their climbing helmet technology to the job. I had one. MSR offered a lifetime replacement for helmets involved in accidents. The design was much different from current bike helmets, with a rigid outer shell, relatively small holes for ventilation, etc., but they did get there first. Bell claimed that their helmet was superior, but MSR challenged the validity of their testing.
One of my favorite niche interests is the history of how different industries--recreational and industrial--have influenced each other over the decades in terms of design AND culture. Really beautiful interplays of creativity and competition, all with meaningful and valuable results for end-users!
As a resident of the first place in the world to make them compulsory I always wear mine (also the fine for not wearing one here is equivalent to over £100 / USD$120). 😢Thanks for the video :).
I love that intro.especially the broken glasses!!!
Am an avid cyclist, and I can testify that helmets have saved my head many times. From falls against the road surface, sidewalk curbs, and a fire hydrant (once). I suggest cyclists treat helmets as one-use items; that is, if it saved your head once, it did its job. It is damaged. Trash it and buy another.
I did not see this coming! But still fun to watch!
The most expensive bicycle ( or motorcycle) helmet is still far cheaper than the cheapest ambulance ride and hospital visit .
BTW, all helmets ( that are designed for protection ) are only effective for a couple of years regardless of how they look as the plastics they are made from break down no matter how well you take care of them.
A new helmet should be bought every 2 years or so and make certain you check the date of manufacture ( it should be inside your helmet if its a Snell/DOT approved helmet) to make certain the new helmet you are buying hasn't been sitting in inventory for more than a few months . Unapproved helmets are as useful in an accident as a baseball cap as far as your survivability in an accident is concerned . Finally,, make sure your helmet fits properly, and that you have put it on correctly . Good video, btw.
A common EMS joke is that we hope we never see you. Excellent point that we didn't have time to include in this guest spot--it doesn't take a super expensive helmet to protect your cranium and they DO need to be replaced on a regular basis regardless of use. In fact, I was t-boned in my car and had a bike helmet sitting in the backseat, and my bike shop (and I) made the very easy deicisoin to declare the helmet finished since it rattled around on impact. Better safe than sorry.
You wear it for the accidents you can't predict. Which is a problem, because most people think they already are predicting everything that will be happening to them in the next few minutes. In reality, though, there are so many unknown variables when riding a bicycle that it is impossible to be 100% capable of knowing what is going to happen next.
Who would have thought hat history was so interesting and delivered with such panache.
Well put
Je suis fan, hâte d’avoir la VF 👍
Thank you. The vinegar valentine at 2:00 was a amusing illustration of a header. Cheers.
Jamais je n’aurais pensé regarder une vidéo sur l’historique du casque de vélo😂
Comme quoi, tout est intéressant quand c’est bien raconté 😊
Alors, on se lance tête baissé dans l'humour visuel ? 😁 (je l'aurais bien vu en style "film muet" en noir et blanc)
Encore une fois très intéressant ! 🎩
(And thanks Alainna for your scientific point of view)
Faut bien un peu d'humour de temps en temps!
@@hathistorianjc Oh que oui !
Here in the Netherlands, you can instantly recognize tourists by the bicycle helmet. Absolutely no one except sporting people wears one, since motor traffic is only allowed close to bikers at 30-50 km/h at the most. Beyond that, bicycle lanes are separate from motor lanes.
The helmet is therefore mostly seen as typical of people who either don't know how to ride, or come from countries without proper bicycle infrastructure.
IIRC, you all tend to ride heavier, more practical bikes there too. In the US, for whatever reason, people tend to ride lightweight mountain bikes that provide less stability at low, city-riding speeds. The change in the center of gravity and overall weight distribution makes a big difference. I'd love a chunky 3-wheeler with a grocery basket on the back, but they don't really sell them here.
@@PongoXBongo I was thinking the same thing. I did take the plunge and bought a Dutch bike. I feel much more in control, that's for sure.
@@gubbins1933If you don't mind my asking, which brand of Dutch bike and where did you find one to buy?
@@PongoXBongo Azor Omafiets from Urkai in Ontario. 🚲
I commute by bike in the UK in a major city and compared to the infrastructure I'm familiar with in Belgium our attitude to bikes is absolutely pitiful. Cycle lanes are nothing more than a vague concept, a bit of white line occasionally on the road for a few dozen metres and even the ones separated from the car traffic by a curb are full of pedestrians or parked vehicles or roadworks. I definitely wouldn't ride here without a helmet but I think it says a lot about the wider cultural attitude
Very good video. An excellent innovation. Encourage you to do a motorcycle helmet video. THAT would be totally cool. Enjoy your channel.
I had an old bell biker back in the day. When I was racing from the late 80’s - early 90’s everyone was wearing helmets, usually the Giro design with covered by stretchy fabric that was popular at the time, as it was very lightweight.
Both of my current helmets are Giros and I love them to bits (but not bits as in smashed-to-bits).
Sound advice👍. I always wear a helmet. No debate.
I have only 80 % understand. I wait on the french version. I apologize, my english isn't so good like you perfect french.
Have a nice day.
Merci de votre patience en attendant la version française. Le retard était entièrement dû à moi. Heureusement pour vous, Jean-Charles sait très bien traquer son commentateur médical avec un filet à papillons pour que vous puissiez éventuellement regarder Le Casque !
What an intro! 🙌
Love your Brandon imitation
The old hairnet helmet is also often referred to as a sausage helmet, for obvious reasons. Improved suspension techniques have been introduced to reduce risk of concussion from oblique impacts. And very recent developments in time trial-specific models take aerodynamic considerations to ridiculous levels. Worth Googling if you haven't seen them already.
A two- fer! That was very informative Two great presentations….. if only we’d follow the instructions
Will you do a video on the peaked cap?
Bravo pour toutes vos vidéos. Mais, n'étant pas familiarisé avec la langue de Shakespeare, j'attends la version "in french".
À quand la version française ? Merci par avance.
😂🤣 BRILLIANT intro, lol
... and oh yeah, I've technically had my life saved by a bicycle helmet TWICE; once while ~8-10 or so and slamming into a metal fire hydrant that would have torn my skull open, and then 2015 when a truck going 42mph (67kph?) slammed into me on the road and gave me a traumatic brain injury
Oh yeah, and somebody else hit me in a parking lot later, but that didn't save my life; that one was low-speed
Very important piece of equipment!!!
The worst cycling injury I've witnessed in the wild was a head-on collision between two cyclists going less than 10mph. Never underestimate the power of mechanism independent of speed. So glad you are okay after your multiple experiences!
"Taking a header . . ." Thanks. I did not know what that meant in 1982.
As someone who bikes regularly, thank you for the informative and interesting video on the biking helmet. Have you considered doing a video on the American football helmet?
I wish RUclips had shown my your channel earlier. Great to see some hat history and was surprised to see it extended to the cycle helmet. I'd love to see a video on the 8-point hat and how it filtered down from the military to gas station attendants and milk deliverypeople...
I didnt wear a helmet for a long time, until i slipped on ice and got a concussion so bad I lost my job from being off sick. I recently fell off my bike and my helmet prevented a 3rd bike related concussion.
Great explanation of the benefit of a shock-absorbing shell in a crash but.... the Kardashian vocal fry! 😮
I've only recently learned to ride a bicycle. Wearing a helmet is important. Although I've never been in an accident. It's better to be safe than sorry. Or worse, dead.
Next up:
Pros and cons of half, 3/4, and full-face helmets among motorcycle riding, and the various motorcycle helmet styles and designs that exist
Great video!
What about BMX riders? They have a different style of helmet.
That is interresting to me, that the expert says it is better to let the helmet on until arrival in the emergency. Here in Germany every participant of first aid courses learns how to take off helmets carefully and are told that it is important and time saving if the helmet is off by the arrival of the paramedics, because they would take it off anyway as their first job to fully inspect the person. Maybe this is different for bike helmets, as they are not enclosing the head as a full face motorcycle helmet would do.
Y aurait-il assez de trucs a dire sur le bonnet phrygien de la Nouvelle-France? Ce serait vraiment interessant! :)
J'espère en faire une sur le bonnet phrygien un de ces jours, oui!
I love your work. But lets not mince our words, the biggest risk to people on bikes is cars. Helmets can reduce the trauma from hitting the windshield or pavement. Car speed is the biggest factor here. Helmets can save lives.
Even in the NL, the countries brain surgeons are pleading with the government to pass law. Not wearing one is only vanity. Let be honest & truthful. Been wearing long before laws & always do. Not all car crashes with bikes are head on, and in North America with the large SUV’s & trucks, there’s not much flipping over the hood anymore. That was old safety standard when people drove cars.
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Dommage ! pas de version française donc ?
j'ai fait un post dans l'onglet "communauté" expliquant pourquoi elle a du retard
When it comes to helmet wearing on bicycles I tend to only wear them for off roading which in my case is the time when most incidents have happened.
However for everything else I tend not to bother with one as in those cases I'm spending more time off rather on the bike, simply using it for transport (and abit of leisure).
Ride with the assumption you are invisible (which you probably are in a lot of cases) while actually following the road rules and you'll be fine in my experience.
Although to be fair I don't tend to ride if it's quite icy or race at all, in which case I would likely wear a helmet.
Mz Brown or Dr Brown, not sure if you are a an MD yet, but i had a question as a Military Medic. It makes perfect sense to leave the helmet on after a significant impact due to the possible severity of fractures that maybe stay anatomically in place due to it. Would there still be times that removing it still make sense? I can think of a couple but that makes more sense in hospital than prehospital. And in military it is dependant on many factures but typically we remove quickly during assessments and replace because the situation dictates they still need protection, but i can also see if CSF and the triad is present to assume more severe TBI, espcialiy with lower Glasgow Coma Scale Numbers, and leave it on unless we needed to treat a penetrating injury. Thoughts?
Heya Doc, thank you for your question. I'm not an MD yet (soooon) and all of my emergency care experience is prehospital (BLS EMT, WFR, W-EMT) and civilian. In terms of prehospital vs. hospital removal, and based on the EMS protocols under which I've practiced, we typically want to transfer pts to definitive care with helmets still in place if possible. This is because head imaging lets the ED have more insight into potential injury that could decompensate upon helmet removel. That imaging allows for helmet removal consistent with the degree of injury likely or known to be present. Operational med protocols are, as you noted, often different because of the nature of the practical setting. One super interesting space for comparing civilian and military emergency medicine is wilderness medicine--I know I've seen a number of REALLY interesting talks and journal articles out of the Wilderness Medical Society where this has come up! Highly recommend. (And I believe that WMS's Journal of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine is open-access!)
@AlainnaBrennanBrown I have wanted to do Wildernes Medicine and once I get back from my deployment I may talk with my county and try to work with CERT as a team leader or just additional training with them. But in the future I wanted to do SAR and Wilderness Medicine.
Supposedly the additional risk from wearing a helmet is less from the rider and more from the drivers of cars who will drive closer to riders wearing helmets.
hmm, that myth derives from a very sloppy and poorly done study in Australia, it’s nonsense in my opinion
There is a substantial body of literature around the association of helmet-wearing and driver behavior. My personal take as a mixed-methods design researcher is that much of the quantitative inquiry is either strong or generally well-debated. HOWEVER, in most of the studies with which I'm familiar, my take is that there are sufficiently many qualitative factors for which the studies don't account (or, based on a given study's methods, regardless of how appropriate to the question and of how appropriately-applied, for which they CANNOT account) that basing real-world decisions on those studies' outcomes in a vacuum may not be appropriate. Context is everything. What may be a more meaningful application of such research could be in driver and cyclist education, pointing at human tendencies rather than at specific decision-making criteria. In contrast to this, *the benefits of wearing helmets have been demonstrated strongly and consistently through a plurality of research lenses, and clinical and designerly recommendations are solidly in favor of wearing bicyle helmets.*
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Tour de France!!!!🚵♀️🚵♀️🚵♀️
il n'a pas en france merci
It should be noted that the leather “hairnet” was preferred by racing cyclists up through the ‘80’s and ‘90’s, with the last users retiring in the early 2000’s. Racing cyclists (especially pros) are very tradition-bound as well as being very hesitant to use anything that may negatively affect their performance (I.e. a hot, heavy hard shell helmet)…this,combined with a bit of machismo is what led to the slow adoption of a “real” helmet when compared to so many other sports.
hmm, when I was racing in the us in the late 80’s / early 90’s everyone was wearing helmets, usually the Giro style with Lycra over foam at first. Pretty sure that it was required but don’t recall exactly. Every now and then you’d see a guy with a leather helmet, usually in the senior class and pretty rarely. Can’t remember seeing one in the current century.
@@PRH123 Hardshells we’re required for amateurs in the U.S.A by the mid ‘80’s, but NOT required for pros until the early 2000’s, which was what my original comment was referring to.🚴🏻
Possibly your best video, but with a paradoxically low view count. Maybe war stuff is more popular. keep doing it anyway!
Cycle helmets are a very effective measure at preventing head injury, in countries that mandate them 30% of riders permanently quit cycling altogether, to an offsetting reduction in overall health for the population that costs more lives than the helmets save.
Actually makes sense for them to remain optional.
Encourage them by all means, but before mandating them consider that a significant minority of riders find them unbearable to wear & will leave the bicycle at home in preference.
Do you have any sources/writing on this? I'd be curious to look into that more deeply...
But where is the version francaise ?
Funny intro
WHEN FOR THE FRENCH VERSION?
quand for the version Francais? English is 40% French after all.
@@neilwilson5785 60 % words in english are coming from the french, it's worst then you says. 😄
La VF n'est pas sortie?
J'ai fait un post dans l'onglet "communauté" qui explique le retard
From what I understand, at least in the Netherlands The idea of helmets providing a false sense security does not just apply to the cyclists. But more important to the car drivers. Most deadly accidents for cyclists include being hit by a car and protecting the head is a bit dubious when you get hit by a car. So the real false sense of security is drivers thinking that cyclists are protected and being less careful around them.
Protected my head when I was hit by a car, I wouldn’t be here now without that helmet
The myth about drivers paying attention to helmets is due to a very poor and sloppy paper released in Australia, nobody believes it
There are so many videos out there that show bystanders trying to get the person on to their feet, then removing the helmet. Not good!
I prefer Skate board type helmets. Much heavier outershell.
Early leather bike helmets sound a lot like Soviet tanker helmets.
They do look similar.
I think I had a trapper keeper in the 80s with that cyclist on it
I wish I hadnn't stopped biking, as soon as t hedriver's license came, I gave up the bike
I don't wear them. In all the times (lots) I've fallen off a bicycle, I've never once landed on my head. You generally don't go fast enough to do so at regular cycling speeds, and the helmet causes overheating and sensory issues that cause accidents. The one time I DID hit my head, it was at an angle the helmet wouldn't have connected with the wall anyway. And even if it had, the wall would have just shredded it into powder on the way to my face.
A motorbike helmet is a different matter. Not only are you moving way faster, but they're much more effective, and you ALSO need to stop bugs, bits of road, water, and objects thrown from cars from hitting you in the face at high speed.
I think context is everything here. The worst cycling accident I've ever witnessed was two experienced cyclists hitting each other head-on going less than 10mph on a local bike path while on leisurely weekend afternoon rides. Regarding the shredding-angle impact, that's actually the helmet's job: just like how cars are manufactured more or less to smash apart in the act of absorbing the impact of a collision so that your body doesn't absorb it, helmets can and often do break apart in the act of absorbing impact so that the force to your body (in this case, your skull and its contents) is markedly reduced. (Always happy to chat more!)
@@AlainnaBrennanBrown I've been cycling since I could balance one, and on three wheels before that. I've put lots of thought into the use of helmets, and decided it caused more harm than it would solve. I'd rather be able to see and avoid issues.
After 7 years of motorbiking, I won't move the thing under it's own power without a helmet on, and ideally full gear. I'm very wary of sitting on it at all with no helmet, so I'm very careful moving it out the garage for washing and maintenance.
7:07 You mean hesitant, not reticent.
This video is interesting 👍
🤡je parle fronçais 😂
I wear a bicycle helmet and recommend everybody should. But it should not be compulsory. A person driving a car is more likely to cause the death of a bicyclist than a bicyclist without helmet.
"We ride at dawn......."
I don’t care what law says, I wear helmet.. period.
I guess that’s one upside to going bald, i don’t have to worry admit helmet hair when i take my bike helmet off.
I had the ability to bike commute in earnest for a few years in my early 20s abnd was lucky enough to have access to a shower at work. About 6 months in, I without a second thought just chopped my hair into a pixie cut because I was tired of how long it took to clean myself up before going into my office.
Dommage que cette vidéo soit en anglais.
La VF arrive
Merci et merci beaucoup pour vos vidéos@@hathistorianjc
When is a French Man going to win the Tour de France!!!!
The plastic shell of the original Bell helmets was made of lexan
I have at least 2 vintage helmets in my basement. If you wan them contact me
hello sorry but why not in french? please =)
I posted in the "community" section explaining why it's late
@@hathistorianjcsorry and thanks you ! See you to plaisir youre movies!😊
@@hathistorianjcenjoying your videos. Could you do the porkpie hat?
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16:10 One of the least practical "hats" to tip so far 😂
Ideally NO TIPPING of this hat!!
You forgot to mention the problem of women getting Bicycle face. It was believed to be a real problem.
Was kind of a thing going on at the end of the 19th century, I think it was more humor in the press than people actually believing it. There were also articles about tennis face, and hiking face, etc….
I think it was the same kind of thing that you often see today, when overweight lazy people complain about “Lycra clad cyclists”…. they project their guilt about their lifestyle onto resentment towards active people…
Love me some paternalistic Victorian nonsense. 🙃
Never worn a helmt even whe I did BMX, never even came close to hitting my head cause I know how to land.
Risk is abstract until it's not. Always happy to chat about the ups and downs of protective gear if you're inclined!
@AlainnaBrennanBrown Its simple dont land on your head.
I wonder if the host ever...ummmm...you know...with miss Brown.😍😋😳
I'm not sure I'm understanding your question. Could you rephrase?