The Jogger
Legendary Member
- Location
- Spain
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A quick straw poll of folder riders
- Thread starter shouldbeinbed
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The Jogger
Legendary Member
- Location
- Spain
Kell
Veteran
- Location
- High Wycombe/London
You're not too far away from where I ride then. Marylebone to Knightsbridge.
It's only 2.5 miles, so whenever I can I do an extra lap of the park to take it to about 5.5.
It's only 2.5 miles, so whenever I can I do an extra lap of the park to take it to about 5.5.
iamRayRay
Quads of Steel
- Location
- Hertfordshire
1) Do you wear a helmet when riding a folding bike?
Not on 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.
Yes on road bike
No on mountain bike
Not on 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.
Yes on road bike
No on mountain bike
1 - Yes, a Fox HS as I do on my street bike.
2 - Yes. Regular style bash hat.
Ref answer no. 1, the Fox HS is more like a BMX bash hat and has a much thicker outer shell and far fewer vents, hence the HS. I thus think it better for city work as things you're likely to nut on the street will probably be a lot harder; cars, pavements, kerbstones etc., than in a rural environment.
2 - Yes. Regular style bash hat.
Ref answer no. 1, the Fox HS is more like a BMX bash hat and has a much thicker outer shell and far fewer vents, hence the HS. I thus think it better for city work as things you're likely to nut on the street will probably be a lot harder; cars, pavements, kerbstones etc., than in a rural environment.
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shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
^^^ thats interesting. In the countryside and pennine riding I do, I have all of those urban hard things and dry stone walls, bigger gates less likely to be closed properly, up on the tops where roads do just give out to a verge a big wobble is enough to have you onto it & it'll often be rock strewn or have water gullies with hard sharp bits at the bottom of it.
I've never tried but I imagine the skater style smooth helmet would also provide less opportunity for random branches catching or poking into a standard helmet vent whizzing through the trees on a MTB.
If I were more inclined to helmets as a safety item I would be better persuaded by the skater type but my personal issue is running hot and even in a nicely vented conventional type I get very warm, in the skater style I fear I'd be warm & sweaty uncomfortable as to lose that innate joy of just riding along.
I've never tried but I imagine the skater style smooth helmet would also provide less opportunity for random branches catching or poking into a standard helmet vent whizzing through the trees on a MTB.
If I were more inclined to helmets as a safety item I would be better persuaded by the skater type but my personal issue is running hot and even in a nicely vented conventional type I get very warm, in the skater style I fear I'd be warm & sweaty uncomfortable as to lose that innate joy of just riding along.
RMurphy195
Well-Known Member
- Location
- South Birmingham
1) Do you wear a helmet when riding a folding bike?Of course
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. Of course
My most recent accident (tossed about 20ft by a trannie van, scratches on helmet suggest an impact) was on stretch of road that I regularly cycle. Whatever damage or pain the helmet saved me has no bearing on what sort of bike I was riding at the time.
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. Of course
My most recent accident (tossed about 20ft by a trannie van, scratches on helmet suggest an impact) was on stretch of road that I regularly cycle. Whatever damage or pain the helmet saved me has no bearing on what sort of bike I was riding at the time.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Folding bike(Peugeot Shopper) (well, actually it comes apart in 2 pieces) no helment.
Bigger frame bikes-Yes, but you've all seen my bicycles, and they look like construction scaffolding. A fall from that height, somebody's gonna get hurt. Me.
Bigger frame bikes-Yes, but you've all seen my bicycles, and they look like construction scaffolding. A fall from that height, somebody's gonna get hurt. Me.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Folding bike(Peugeot Shopper) (well, actually it comes apart in 2 pieces) no helment.
Bigger frame bikes-Yes, but you've all seen my bicycles, and they look like construction scaffolding. A fall from that height, somebody's gonna get hurt. Me.
Bigger frame bikes-Yes, but you've all seen my bicycles, and they look like construction scaffolding. A fall from that height, somebody's gonna get hurt. Me.
iamclaus
Senior Member
- Location
- Southern Alberta, Canada
Yes and Yes.
I learned my lesson the hard way, albeit not on a folding bike at the time.
I learned my lesson the hard way, albeit not on a folding bike at the time.
SavageHoutkop
Veteran
- Location
- South Manchester-ish
I currently only wear a helmet in winter when I need my helmet mounted lights.
I ride a folder or a monstrous tank like cargobike. I feel much safer on the tank than the folder, probably partly due to the ride style.
I have noticed I ride more conservatively when not wearing a helmet.
When I am on the tank I often have my toddler on it with me.
He doesn't currently have a helmet either (for various reasons, one being his head is so massive it was too big for toddler helmets and kid size helmets, to me, are unsafe on him due to the massively increased head circumference compared to his neck). It would be rather idiotic of me to wear a helmet while he doesn't have one on; although he is strapped to the bike where I am not.
My husband is more sold on helmets generally than I am but he also doesn't wear one on the tank, although he does usually on his folder.
I ride a folder or a monstrous tank like cargobike. I feel much safer on the tank than the folder, probably partly due to the ride style.
I have noticed I ride more conservatively when not wearing a helmet.
When I am on the tank I often have my toddler on it with me.
He doesn't currently have a helmet either (for various reasons, one being his head is so massive it was too big for toddler helmets and kid size helmets, to me, are unsafe on him due to the massively increased head circumference compared to his neck). It would be rather idiotic of me to wear a helmet while he doesn't have one on; although he is strapped to the bike where I am not.
My husband is more sold on helmets generally than I am but he also doesn't wear one on the tank, although he does usually on his folder.
SavageHoutkop
Veteran
- Location
- South Manchester-ish
I should add I don't wear any cycling specific clothing now at all, on either type of bike, aside from waterproofs. If I were on the bike for fitness / long rides only, I would probably. But I'm not. I commute on my bike and I use it to get from A to B as the most efficient and most pleasant form of transport over about a 5 mile distance, max.
CyclePower
Member
- Location
- Devon and London
As for me it depends on where I go by cycle not by what type of bi/tri/whatever-cycle. If I cycle in a town or on a lane where a lot of other cyclists are then I wear always a helmet no matter what cycle I use. If I go on a lonely lane no other person or car in sight I take the helmet off.
