No Bike Helmet

Bike helmets (for Karston) came up twice yesterday.

First I read that 75% of all fatal head injuries to children under 5 could have been prevented with bike helmets. That makes bike helmets sound pretty good, although I have to admit, when I saw a kid on a Big Wheels with a bike helmet, it looked pretty silly. Let's see, her butt was two inches off the ground (so her head was lower than standing!), and she could run faster. Yeah, that Big Wheels really needs a bike helmet; she was probably safer on the Big Wheels than on her own feet!

So I looked at "infant bike helmets" at Amazon ... ... and discovered that none of the helmets fit him. He has an 18" head circumference, or just under 46 cm. The smallest helmets start at 47 cm. A helmet that doesn't fit also doesn't protect!

And the second time yesterday was when some neighbors walked over. Brian looked in our garage and said, You have a tandem bike? Why haven't I seen you out on it? The answer is that we don't have a helmet for Karston (and until recently, he wasn't over the recommended one year of age before being a bike passenger), so one of us carries him, so no tandem.

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