I used to tell customers that a Brancale (which I intentionally
mispronounced "brain kill") was a "helmet replica," and that Bells were real
helmets.
David Feldman
> In a message dated 3/5/2001 9:42:22 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> bulger@erim-int.com writes:
>
> << Skid Lid. >>
>
> There was a tremendous stink in the bike press and industry over SkidLid
> helmets when they were being sold.
>
> They used springy, rebounding foam rather than the harder,
> destroys-itself-in-saving- your-head stuff. They argued long and
vociferously
> that they used helicopter pilot helmets technology and that their design
was
> the real trick. Meanwhile Bell was bring automotive and motorcycle
technology
> to the fray with their Bell Biker cranium protector.
>
> There were two Camps.. The boingy foam SkidLid proponents versus the
> crushable foam gang, Bailen, Bell and I think MSR (Mountain Safety
Research)
> We know who won. But SkidLid didn't go out without a lot of rhetorical
fights!
>
> Of course then there was the Oh so conformable Brancale hard plastic
helmet.
> Maybe that is where the affectionate term "sweat bucket" came from!
>
> Dale Brown