Helmets

[pshore]

I couldn't be arsed to read the last umteen pages .....

Bloody helmets should be banned. Every time I wear one on my mountain bike I crash ! When I don't wear it, I don't crash. And those kids, with full face helmets. They are all careering down mountains on so called downhill courses and ending up in A+E with broken limbs.

 

[Bicycle]

Yes I do, but I feel faintly silly wearing one.

Also, I slightly rose to the tutting I got from the Safety Nazis before I wore one. Which made me more determined to continue doing so...

Childish, but true.

I always preferred a cotton'casquette' in good weather and a sort of woollen cap comforter in poor weather.

My helmet is about 15 years old, from when I was teaching my eldest to ride and thought I ought to set a good example...

About a year ago, on a 20-mile commute to the office I had a 'moment' on a greasy descent and my confidence just melted.

Mid-40s and no longer bounce like I did.

I've worn a helmet ever since that week.

But I still look on with envy when I see someone whizzing along with a cotton cap on and no sun in their eyes...

My kids (all now riding all over the county) wear helmets, which I'm glad of - but when they're going down rural A-Roads a bollard's width from roaring artics, I don't know why I'm so casual about them wearing a mere gossamer of lycra to ride in....

Perversely, I have ALWAYS worn gloves, and feel very exposed on a bike when riding without them.. even to the shops.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Ear-piercing is the parenting forum's helmet thread? Brilliant!

Helmet piercing on the other hand ....

 

[snorri]

Helmet threads should be banned!

I don't think so, just as long as they are not compulsory reading.

 

[Thelma]

Helmet piercing on the other hand ....

oooh now there's an idea. I bet I can get all kind of dangly fancy, wafty-as-I-ride accessories for that. Dream catcher attachment, maybe....

You do mean cycle helmets, don't you?

 

[NotFabian]

Someone using a mobile phone while driving is a lot more dangerous than a cyclist not wearing a helmet.

Why would a cyclist with no helmet be dangerous?

 

[on the road]

Why would a cyclist with no helmet be dangerous?

Try reading some earlier posts.

 

[ufkacbln]

Helmet piercing on the other hand ....

Nogin Sox

 

[NotFabian]

Try reading some earlier posts.

It was a wee joke...playing on your words...

Why so serious?

 

[danphoto]

Someone using a mobile phone while driving is a lot more dangerous than a cyclist not wearing a helmet.

As I was chaining my bike to the hitching rail outside the local Waitrose yesterday, a white Range Rover parked on the double yellow outside and one of the chattering classes got out of it and set about releasing the obligatory two kids from whatever was securing them to the back seat.

As she headed for the entrance, she had the confounded cheek to say to me "You should get a helmet. You shouldn't be allowed on the road without one."

And I said to her "You overtook me at the bottom of this road ten minutes ago and your nearside mirror missed my arm by around 10 inches, but you wouldn't have noticed 'cos you were on the phone. Enjoy your shopping and die soon."

 

[Fab Foodie]

oooh now there's an idea. I bet I can get all kind of dangly fancy, wafty-as-I-ride accessories for that. Dream catcher attachment, maybe....

You do mean cycle helmets, don't you?

errr

 

[Fab Foodie]

And I said to her "You overtook me at the bottom of this road ten minutes ago and your nearside mirror missed my arm by around 10 inches, but you wouldn't have noticed 'cos you were on the phone. Enjoy your shopping and die soon."

Fabulous response.

 

[oldroadman]

I wear one because I like wearing a block of polystyrene on my head, it gives me a strange sexual thrill

And I thought it was just me!
Which is why I never wear one, don't want to embarrass myself by getting all excited....

 

[Rod]

I always wear a helmet mountain biking (have come off too many times at speed to risk not wearing one) but not on my sedate daily commute (in London).

 

[numbnuts]

I always wear a helmet mountain biking (have come off too many times at speed to risk not wearing one) but not on my sedate daily commute (in London).

With the amount of cyclist who get mashed in London I would want full body armour