helmet wearing hypocrisy

[ComedyPilot]

If you and your wife spout to the media on an almost weekly basis that cyclists should wear helmets just because you got hit by a truck in the USA, then it might be a good idea to wear one in public? A certain rower is at the same Center Parcs as me and I saw him riding a bike helmet less. I value his opinion, that of his wife and other pro-helmetters but it stinks of hypocrisy to then not wear one after such vociferous campaigning.

 

[Kies]

Oh no he didn't ....

 

[ComedyPilot]

It's a compact site. Our paths will cross again. ...........and I have a smartphone. .......

 

[glenn forger]

he's sponsored by a helmet company. he rarely mentions that fact.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

It's a compact site. Our paths will cross again. ...........and I have a smartphone. .......

good idea but I suspect you may get some grief for it, Mrs C was very dogmatic & brusque to the point of downright rudeness with people on twitter last time she raised their helmets are magical devices opinion

 

[ufkacbln]

Not the first time either.... even the Daily Wail has covered this previously

 

[snorri]

It's a compact site. Our paths will cross again. ...........and I have a smartphone. .......

Don't waste your time, it's not worth it, just enjoy your holiday.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Can you still buy nut cracknell?

 

[Sara_H]

[QUOTE 3037438, member: 30090"]That's what the doctor who treated him said. I remember watching the programme on Discovery.[/QUOTE]
Doctors talk shoot 95% of the time.

 

[Cycling Dan]

I have seen crashes where a helmet is put to the test by a truck. Trust me if the truck is going to put the helmet to the test your head is going to be scrapped off the tarmac.

 

[Cycling Dan]

That requires earning.

There you go I suppose. I can see that the helmet was the fundamental part of saving his life.
As you can see by the reaction of the driver just like how the Daily Mail say the helmet can protect all parts of the body and of course the head. Without it you will die.

Link form .
View: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=561_1374843536

 

[Cycling Dan]

Are there any recorded instances where wearing a helmet has increased someone's head size, thus preventing a whoosh?

No recorded events of such but the Daily Mail apparently have plenty of reports that wearing a helmet protects all of the body regardless of the crash. Not wearing on will result in your 100% guaranteed death.

(Remember though it is the daily mail, not always accurate)

 

[ufkacbln]

[QUOTE 3037421, member: 30090"]If he was not wearing a helmet that fateful day then he would have died.[/QUOTE]


You don't know that, no-one knows that

Allegedly, there is also equal grounds to a claim that had he not had a helmet on, the vehicle would have missed, and another claim that it was the helmet catching on the mirror that converted a glancing blow into a more serious injury.


He is paid by the company to promote their product and they both fail repeatedly to mention this little fact - is there not a slight niggle in your mind that this is more about the money than safety?

That would explain why his vehement "wear a helmet or die" public statements are so different from his actual practice when they suddenly become unneccessary

 

[ComedyPilot]

Just like the supposed benefit data about helmets, a repeat sighting of the helmrtless ex-rower has eluded me. loads of other cycle-related safety stuff to report - but that will have to wait till tomorrow when I return to Chez CP and my adequate broadband connection.

 

[ianrauk]

You don't know that, no-one knows that

Allegedly, there is also equal grounds to a claim that had he not had a helmet on, the vehicle would have missed, and another claim that it was the helmet catching on the mirror that converted a glancing blow into a more serious injury.


He is paid by the company to promote their product and they both fail repeatedly to mention this little fact - is there not a slight niggle in your mind that this is more about the money than safety?

That would explain why his vehement "wear a helmet or die" public statements are so different from his actual practice when they suddenly become unneccessary

He cast's a hook....................