Fortnine has another video:
And this is a great demonstration of the standard form of a Fortnine video. They are not a discussion of the various views and theories on a topic, they are his view, backed up by some points he’s found that support it.
This one, too, skips a bunch of stuff to help make the point he sets out to make. These videos are not some sort of impartial dry scientific study of a thing.
The main test is ‘how hard can I pull it without breaking’ and whatever can be pulled hardest is deemed ‘safest’, ignoring anything else like how likely it is that a user has adjusted it correctly, the way that nobody’s head or chin is shaped like their wooden block, and whether there’s any real-life crash that just slowly increases the tension there until failure.
The ‘dick clip’ that fails first is just some generic slide buckle; obviously all of these come with different ratings and much as it seems likely that these could be developed to fail at all sorts of limits, this isn’t explored. In fact, we know nothing of the ratings of any of these clasps; which helmets they’ve come from, if they’ve ever been made for a helmet at all.
And then he says the D-rings are infinitely and inescapably adjustable; riders have no choice but to set the tightness every time ignoring the point that they aren’t since anyone who has ever used one will have noticed that a well-used double-d strap has a crease in it that it’ll naturally fold into, and the point that while the ratchets are only finely adjustable, they do require the wearer to set the tightness every time.
It’s a great video for telling someone who loves double-d rings just how smart they are, but it’s not going to change the mind of anyone who likes anything else, because it’s so unconvincing.
