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Re:The Free Soloist Who Fell to Earth by pbhjpbhj on Monday June 26, 2023 @02:50PM (#36484069)
Mostly, a helmet is unlikely to be the difference between life and death for a cyclist.

30mph (faster than I've ever been on a pedal-bike) is about 13m/s. That's about ~10m fall if my maths is right.

Did you mean a motorbike?

It feels like the comparison to cycling would be at least two orders of magnitude in difference of increased risk.

Re:The Free Soloist Who Fell to Earth by fwlr on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @06:12PM (#36499381)
I did mean bicycles, yeah. Really I just think I have a very different way of understanding and conceptualising things. Like to me, sky-diving is “jumping out of a plane”, that’s the activity, and whether you have zero, one, or two parachutes is just a question of safety equipment.