Things on your helmet - dangerous?

[allen-uk]

How dangerous is it, (and I'm sure there aren't any official figures as yet), to stick things on your helmet. Like cameras (miniature), or like flashing lights?

I know you'd be doubly unlucky to get knocked off your bike and land on your flashing rear light (attached to the back of your helmet) and sustain skull injuries from a pair of AAA batteries, but??

Allen.

 

[flecc]

The Vikings had horns on their helmets and seemed happy with them.
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[eddieo]

The Vikings had horns on their helmets and seemed happy with them.
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They were for drinking out of........Silly

 

[tillson]

How dangerous is it, (and I'm sure there aren't any official figures as yet), to stick things on your helmet. Like cameras (miniature), or like flashing lights?.

I can't see any point in attaching a camera to your helmet because it would be too dark inside your Y Fronts for it to see anything. A flashing light on your helmet may attract unwanted attention when visiting a public convenience. This in itself could be dangerous, but as you say, there probably aren't any government statistics available for us to identify the magnitude of the risk.

My advice would be, don't do it because it's very wrong.

 

[allen-uk]

The Vikings had horns on their helmets and seemed happy with them.
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Yea, but them Vikings never cycled round north London, the softies.

A

 

[ronipozn]

I once put a miniature video camera on my helmet when I wanted to filmed a video of one of my rides.

I don't see a reason why should it be dangerous if you do it properly.

 

[Xcytronex]

I once put a miniature video camera on my helmet when I wanted to filmed a video of one of my rides.

I don't see a reason why should it be dangerous if you do it properly.

Kinky !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rad]

Tillson! Good work fella!

 

[Barnowl]

The Vikings had horns on their helmets and seemed happy with them.
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That's a myth. The Vikings were never happy!

 

[Barnowl]

Also, on a marginally less flippant note, Viking helmets were designed like all good helmets to deflect the blow away from the head. The addition of horns could have directed a badly wielded sword, and off target swipe, back into the head making for a seriously miserable Viking.

Likewise I'd have thought you should be careful not toh attach accessories that could direct and focus a blow into the skull.

 

[Sevenhills]

How dangerous is it, (and I'm sure there aren't any official figures as yet), to stick things on your helmet. Like cameras (miniature), or like flashing lights?

Allen.

I think that the reason motor cycle helmets are round and smooth is quite clear. and cycle helmets with bits that stick out is not a good thing.

 

[allen-uk]

I think that the reason motor cycle helmets are round and smooth is quite clear. and cycle helmets with bits that stick out is not a good thing.

Likewise I'd have thought you should be careful not toh attach accessories that could direct and focus a blow into the skull.

Do motor-cyclists have trouble with, for example, visors? And I suppose that if I did land on the back of my head, my flashing red light could be pushed into my brain, but my gut feeling is that I'll be safer with it on my head than without.

It's all about odds, isn't it. (And I'll avoid sword-wielding Scandinavians).

Allen.

 

[theskip1]

That's a myth. The Vikings were never happy!

not the ones with the horns on the inside anyway