Cycling Helmets

[coffeejo]

Especially knitted horns!

Would have made more sense than the horny horns that someone (I want to say a Victorian journalist but I could be wrong) decided were necessary to make the Danes scarier...

 

[coffeejo]

I have always understood it to be a Wagnerian opera thing. That could be a meta myth though.

That's ringing a bell. Something about adding the horns to make him look more devilish?

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I've decided to take to the roads now & get some protective clothing, helmet, gloves, knee & elbow protectors.

I'm now picturing you out on the local stunt ramps with the BMX kids! Elbow / knee pads shouldn't be needed on roads, but I guess if it gives you comfort then it's not for me to say you shouldn't. It'll be an unusual sight, that's for sure.

My theory on helmets & the number of people against them is their appearance.

Nah, it's most definitely not the appearance. While people will form polar views about their effectiveness or usefulness or whatever else, it's not because of their lack of aesthetic appeal, it's whether they work or are needed. Bike helmets are at least designed with cycling in mind; A horse rider wouldn't wear a cycling helmet for dressage, and a cyclist shouldn't wear a horsey hat for riding bikes on the road, because the testing, design etc are all sport-specific. You sound like you're convinced that you want to wear head protection, so if you intend on wearing a helmet on a bike, then make it a bike helmet. There's enough designs out there.

 

[ian turner]

Actually I'm 76, it's 60 years since I did any serious cycling.

Still not allowed on the pavement unless your bike has 4 wheels and an electric motor

 

[coffeejo]

They are currently at the opera but I reckon @srw and @rvw to be the best bet for an answer on this one.

I look forward to their responses when they discover why they've been pinged from a helmet thread.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I'm not being drawn in, laugh all you like.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Time to end this one I think as it is becoming a surrogate helmet debate thread.

As always, helmet debate belongs in the dedicated thread once some issues over there have been looked at and it has been reopened.