I've realised only recently that I look absurd wearing a cycling helmet.
This is significant, as a key element of cycling to me is the whole aesthetic of being at the sabre's edge in new things and looking cooler than dry ice at all times. Riding the thing is really secondary.
There wasn't an angle from which I looked anything but absurd in the helmet I had.
It's an old, early 90s slightly aerodynamic cranial mushroom-type thing.
I was all prepared to ditch it and go back to the cotton cap.... But then my ever-loving wife told me I looked aburd in that, too.
So I went out to my bicycle with nothing on my head, walking past a mirror as I did so.
It turns out that I was just born looking absurd. It wasn't the helmet at all.
What can I do?
Is this even a helmet debate?
Would a huge Russian fur hat with turned-up ear flaps help in any way?
Might that look absurd too?
This is significant, as a key element of cycling to me is the whole aesthetic of being at the sabre's edge in new things and looking cooler than dry ice at all times. Riding the thing is really secondary.
There wasn't an angle from which I looked anything but absurd in the helmet I had.
It's an old, early 90s slightly aerodynamic cranial mushroom-type thing.
I was all prepared to ditch it and go back to the cotton cap.... But then my ever-loving wife told me I looked aburd in that, too.
So I went out to my bicycle with nothing on my head, walking past a mirror as I did so.
It turns out that I was just born looking absurd. It wasn't the helmet at all.
What can I do?
Is this even a helmet debate?
Would a huge Russian fur hat with turned-up ear flaps help in any way?
Might that look absurd too?