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Bearing Thomas Crash

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  • July 20, 2015 at 4:18 pm #24466
    Batchy

    Just seen Geraint Thomas smack his head on a telegraph post doing about 30mph. Do you think he would have been able to continue the race had he not been wearing a helmet ?

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  • July 20, 2015 at 11:19 pm #854403
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    charliepalooza

    crikey wrote:…and if we

    crikey wrote:
    …and if we look at it objectively, for a change, he wasn’t doing 30 mph. He had already slowed for the corner, then braked after getting clattered, then run over a garden chair, then hit a glancing blow on the pole.

    In this instance the helmet did it’s job; it protected him from the relatively low speed impact with the pole.

    It doesn’t imply that helmet use across a wide population should be mandatory, it demonstrates that if you are going to get side swiped by an over eager French chap while attempting to get around a corner in a big bike race, it would be useful to have one on.

    I don’t think that can be called a relatively low speed impact! Credit to Thomas for continuing after that – the guy is hard as nails and a legend.

    July 20, 2015 at 9:31 pm #854401
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    crikey

    But you did make a post on
    But you did make a post on another thread commenting on the Geraint Thomas crash and referring to the use of a helmet, right?

    Here it is:

    “Well thankfully G WAS wearing a HELMET !”

    i.e., this was your second post making reference to the G crash and the use of helmets…

    So do give over, there’s a good chap.

    July 20, 2015 at 9:24 pm #854399
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    Batchy

    crikey wrote:That’s the

    crikey wrote:
    That’s the second post you’ve done on it; are you so desperate to have a ‘Ooooh look a helmet is such a great thing’ thread?

    No.You are quite wrong. This is the first time ever that I have posted on this site. I have commented loads of times on other people’s posts though.

    July 20, 2015 at 9:04 pm #854397
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    giff77

    As if I would allow personal
    As if I would allow personal opinion to cloud my judgement on a case such as this 🙂 I’m just glad he’s ok. If you havnt already take a wee trip over to Cycling Weekly and listen to G talking about his scars in their “talk about their scars” series.

    July 20, 2015 at 8:30 pm #854395
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    700c

    giff77 wrote: It did look to

    giff77 wrote:
    It did look to me that his shoulder took the brunt of the collision. Even then at low speed. I would have been more concerned about the drop into the ditch

    Strange – to me he appears to hit the back of his head as you see it rebound quite violently. It was plenty fast enough to be a concern with that kind of knock. Also bear in mind the footage is slowed down in the first part of that clip. Perhaps one’s interpretation is influenced by one’s views on helmets! 😉

    ..but anyway he seemed to brush it off – testament to how hard the man is!

    July 20, 2015 at 8:27 pm #854393
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    Beatnik69

    The drunk bloke I saw last
    The drunk bloke I saw last night could have done with a helmet when he bent over from the waist and bounced the top of his head off a wall. I hear the crack from the other side of the road. =))

    July 20, 2015 at 7:34 pm #854391
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    giff77

    We really don’t know the
    We really don’t know the answer to that. It did look to me that his shoulder took the brunt of the collision. Even then at low speed. I would have been more concerned about the drop into the ditch. At least the pole slowed him down in that instance. He did seem more concerned about the glasses and that they weren’t made anymore.

    July 20, 2015 at 7:03 pm #854389
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    crikey

    Which, if we were bothered,
    Which, if we were bothered, would be the definition of a troll, no?

    July 20, 2015 at 6:55 pm #854387
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    Batchy

    crikey wrote:I know what you

    crikey wrote:
    I know what you where trying to do you cheeky little monkey…

    …and so do you. ;)


    Whatever the cheeky monkey wrote it certainly appears to have the other animals rattling their cages !

    July 20, 2015 at 6:49 pm #854385
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    crikey

    I know what you where trying
    I know what you where trying to do you cheeky little monkey…

    …and so do you. 😉

    July 20, 2015 at 6:46 pm #854383
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    Batchy

    crikey wrote:…and if we

    crikey wrote:
    …and if we look at it objectively, for a change, he wasn’t doing 30 mph. He had already slowed for the corner, then braked after getting clattered, then run over a garden chair, then hit a glancing blow on the pole.

    In this instance the helmet did it’s job; it protected him from the relatively low speed impact with the pole.

    It doesn’t imply that helmet use across a wide population should be mandatory, it demonstrates that if you are going to get side swiped by an over eager French chap while attempting to get around a corner in a big bike race, it would be useful to have one on.


    Well ! Did I ever mention mandatory helmets ? No ! And the question of being squashed under lorry was not asked either !

    July 20, 2015 at 6:19 pm #854381
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    Stumps

    Just shows people will come
    Just shows people will come up with every excuse under the sun to try and justify their view is correct…………. =))

    July 20, 2015 at 5:42 pm #854379
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    crikey

    …and if we look at it
    …and if we look at it objectively, for a change, he wasn’t doing 30 mph. He had already slowed for the corner, then braked after getting clattered, then run over a garden chair, then hit a glancing blow on the pole.

    In this instance the helmet did it’s job; it protected him from the relatively low speed impact with the pole.

    It doesn’t imply that helmet use across a wide population should be mandatory, it demonstrates that if you are going to get side swiped by an over eager French chap while attempting to get around a corner in a big bike race, it would be useful to have one on.

    July 20, 2015 at 5:36 pm #854377
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    700c

    To answer the OP, the helmet
    To answer the OP, the helmet probably helped, but we’d never know for sure, as I doubt he’ll be wanting to repeat the ‘off’ without one for comparison purposes!

    Either way, you won’t convince anyone on here who’s avidly pro or anti, if the past ten thousand odd posts on the subject are anything to go by!!

    July 20, 2015 at 4:54 pm #854375
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    vonhelmet

    crikey wrote:That’s the

    crikey wrote:
    That’s the second post you’ve done on it; are you so desperate to have a ‘Ooooh look a helmet is such a great thing’ thread?

    In fairness, this is the sort of crash where a helmet could well have done him a great favour.

    Unfortunately most of the crashes where helmets are referred are more of the “driven over by a lorry” variety, than the “headbutted a telegraph pole” type, so I agree that it is a bit spurious to enter a data point from the latter as evidence for the former.

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