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RE: Motorcycle Re: Hans Device

To: "atrav" <atrav@copper.net>, "LSR list" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Motorcycle Re: Hans Device
From: "Clay, Dale" <Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:53:03 -0700
Good point.  I would suggest the neck collar from Simpson, I have one from when 
I raced carts.  The Simpson one is much firmer foam than the Bell ones I've 
seen.  Don't know how you'd tuck in though ...


Which reminds me of something I've been pondering...
 It seems to me with a LSR or dragracing motorcycle crash, there's the 
possibility that the rider
will be rolling and tumbling. Has (or do) any of the motorcycle racers wear 
some type of neck brace
to keep their head from flopping around?
I can see where that would be a problem with neck flexibility and related 
visibility in road racing,
but with straight line stuff I wonder if the use of one of those medical type 
stiff cushion braces
would prevent the neck from over flexation?

FWIW with the worst crash I had, the bike was barrel rolling then bouncing end 
over end as I slid
along behind it, watching it shed the breaking parts. I remember the noise 
most, but I was able to
just slide along on my hips, elbows, and knees (I'm well rounded now, with the 
scars to prove it).
But I imagine if I had caught a pavement ripple or landed different, I would've 
been flopping around
like a rag doll just like the bike. And I wouldn't want to have my head just 
along for the ride.
;o)

-Aron-




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