Posts by Steve Barnes
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to George Darroch,
Steve, did you even look at the page you were linking to? I do not think it means what you think it means.
Yes but I made my point badly, edited to clarify.
The point I was trying to make was that helmets are ok if you happen to fall off your bike and bang your head but worth very little when you get hit by a truck. -
Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to George Darroch,
The safety of cycle helmets is something that people take as an article of faith.
Others do research
A case-control study of the effectiveness of bicycle safety helmetsSeven percent of the case patients were wearing helmets at the time of their head injuries, as compared with 24 percent of the emergency room controls and 23 percent of the second control group. Of the 99 cyclists with serious brain injury only 4 percent wore helmets. In regression analyses to control for age, sex, income, education, cycling experience, and the severity of the accident, we found that riders with helmets had an 85 percent reduction in their risk of head injury (odds ratio, 0.15; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.07 to 0.29) and an 88 percent reduction in their risk of brain injury (odds ratio, 0.12; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.04 to 0.40).
We conclude that bicycle safety helmets are highly effective in preventing head injury. Helmets are particularly important for children, since they suffer the majority of serious head injuries from bicycling accidents.
Sound convincing eh?
However..To be consistent and just, the public health benefit of mandatory helmet wearing for cycling needs to be viewed in the context of similar requirements for other road users, especially as research has suggested that motoring helmets are more effective than cycle helmets, and motor vehicle occupants suffer many more head injuries
So, helmets for car passengers too?. Now who is going to get sniggered at?.
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to BenWilson,
After mucking around for ages searching for the hole, I realized all that was wrong with it was that she had not understood how to operate the hand pump, and it was just a bit flat.
That just sounds soo wrong, the incompetence these days is astounding.
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I am often coming across adults who have never learnt to ride (just like others who have never learnt to swim).
Add that to a growing list.
Who, these days can repair anything? who can change a tap washer or a tyre. Or repack a flange or even rewind an armature?
Things have come to a pretty pass I tell you.
I blame Ann Tolley. -
Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to Alice Ronald,
Lycra shorts that seem to enrage car drivers.
They just Scream "Hit Me" don't they?
It cant be an Underwear Comfort thing, surely? -
Field Theory: Gruts, in reply to Ross Mason,
(My Dad told me to dress to the left)
Sinister...
Not really as "Dressing" on the left is a right handed thing, tucking,.. as you understand... -
May I suggest a new political movement, 'The New Luddites"
I mean. How much new stuff do we need? why do we need this "Growth" (back in my day we had those sort of thing removed on the National Health you know) Like, you know I can program my PVR and choose what music I want to listen to over the whole house audio system from my mobile phone and we need GROWTH ?New Luddites say Enough is Enough!!!
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Frédéric Bastiat stirs –
Ah, a Trustafarian.
Don’t you just love the self entitlement of them?
I believe our Oily friend is of that ilk -
Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Sacha,
the NZTA Economic Evaluation Manual used for roading projects
I can imagine that...
Minister.. "So how many more trucks can we get through Auckland if we build this rail tunnel?"
Research assistant with a copy of the NZTA Economic Evaluation Manual used for roading projects in his shaking hands.. "None Sir"
"Well that's no good then is it"
"No, Sir"Do they not have an "NZTA Economic Evaluation Manual used for rail projects"?
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All this nonsense is a smokescreen, for what I have yet to figure out but you can bet your ass it won't be in the interests of democracy.