Smart...& thanks for sharing

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!

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.

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

Faut bien un peu d'humour de temps en temps!

@@hathistorianjc Oh que oui !

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 !

Both of my current helmets are Giros and I love them to bits (but not bits as in smashed-to-bits).

Well put

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.*

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.

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!

J'espère en faire une sur le bonnet phrygien un de ces jours, oui!

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.

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.🚴🏻

j'ai fait un post dans l'onglet "communauté" expliquant pourquoi elle a du retard

They do look similar.

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. 😄

Do you have any sources/writing on this? I'd be curious to look into that more deeply...

J'ai fait un post dans l'onglet "communauté" qui explique le retard

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 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.

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 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.

Ideally NO TIPPING of this hat!!

La VF arrive

Merci et merci beaucoup pour vos vidéos@@hathistorianjc

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?

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. 🙃

I'm not sure I'm understanding your question. Could you rephrase?