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> As it turns out, those safe conditions render the helmet as unnecesary. One wonders why competitive track cyclists wear helmets, then? After all, no-one is o
by vacri 9y ago
> As it turns out, those safe conditions render the helmet as unnecesary.
One wonders why competitive track cyclists wear helmets, then? After all, no-one is on the track but the cyclists, all moving predictably, and they minimise the weight of everything else... so why not lose another 400 grams from their race weight?
- stordoff 9y ago[1] suggests that a suitably designed helmet reduces drag by a fair amount, which probably offsets the weight increase. [1] https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/7804/Thesis_fulltext.pdf https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/7804/Thes...