Rad Graphics!
Summary: We were pleased with the Rad Rider graphics that were available online, but the comic has disappeared. There is still a YouTube video, however.
Rad Rider
At one time
iehp.org was the best site for downloading the comic character Rad Rider, sponsored by a non-profit HMO in California, the
Inland Empire Health Plan. But the page has disappeared from their site.
There was a whole 20-page comic book on this site, with huge full-page graphic files that loaded quickly in blurred form to
keep your interest and sharpened as the file continued to come over the net. Rad Rider is a muscular hero who takes a
whole page to get his helmet on just right before he charges off on his bike after the bad Dr. Hardrive, heeding safety
rules all the way. There is a chase scene, and moderate violence. The Mayor seems grateful as Rad Rider rescues her. This
is great stuff! Talk balloons change in synch with his lips.
In August 2024 we still found
this Rad Rider video on YouTube.
Note: There was also once a site called "Cranium Canyon" sponsored by McDonalds and the Consumer Product Safety Commission
as part of a helmet promotion campaign they launched in April of 1999. The graphics were great and they had downloadable
photos as well. But the site has disappeared from the old URL "bikehelmet.org" and we have not been able to find the
material anywhere else.