A quick straw poll of folder riders

[shouldbeinbed]

& I post it with some trepidation of the derailment potential.

1) Do you wear a helmet when riding a folding bike?

2) Do you wear a helmet (or feel more likely to) when on bigger frame bikes of whatever style in similar just getting from A to B riding.

I'm simply interested if my attitude that folders and helmets don't mix but other bikes and helmets seem more suited is peculiar to me.

I neither want nor care about anyone else's views of helmets as a safety item nor anecdotes that you believe you're only alive/were hurt more because of wearing one.

 

[srw]

(a) No
(b) Usually not on my solo bikes, but I tend to on the tandem because it keeps Mrs W happier.

I gave up dressing up to ride my Brompton about 6 years ago. I now wear whatever I'm going to be wearing during the day. My anecdotal observations are that increasing numbers of Londoners, on all sorts of bikes, are doing the same.

 

[Pale Rider]

1. No.

2. No.

Although I agree with your observation that a helmet is 'more suited' to big wheel bike.

Similarly, someone in full lycra team kit would look daft on a Brompton.

 

[StuartG]

Similarly, someone in full lycra team kit would look daft on a Brompton.

Oh, you spotted me last Tuesday en route to/from Charlwood (Anerley BC colours).
Just to upset you more here is a earlier back view of me in Friday kit. Yep, at the back and no helmet. The guy in blue is also on a Brompton.
So my answer has to be:

1. No - but I might wear one if it was bowler shaped
2. No - even if it was bowler shaped

(photo stolen from @Mice of this parish)

 

[Arrowfoot]

1) No
2) No for big bike for short distance to store, supermarket, pub etc
3) Yes for big bike for distance, runs etc

 

[welsh dragon]

A) no

b) no

 

[shouldbeinbed]

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1. No - but I might wear one if it was bowler shaped

Yes I could see that or a tweed deerstalker

Doesn't some manufacturer do that sort.of thing? I may have dreamed it tho.

 

[CopperBrompton]

1. No
2. No (though my 'big bike' is a recumbent trike)

 

[ufkacbln]

Even James Cracknell agrees that helmets are not required on a Brompton

 

[TheDoctor]

No to both. I don't own a helmet.

 

[StuAff]

Yes to both. And each to their own.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Fixed it for you.

Even James Cracknell agrees that helmets are not required on any bike

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Thanks everyone. At least I'm not the only one :-) For me the answers are

1) no ( maybe irrationally but not even if answer 2 applies; Wooly Ron hill runners hat with reflective detailing then)

2) only if its dark and I think a high level set of lights would help.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Even James Cracknell agrees that helmets are not required on a Brompton

Cor, hope his Mrs doesn't get to see that.

 

[Sara_H]

Even James Cracknell agrees that helmets are not required on a Brompton

HaHa!