My mistake, it was @glasgowcyclist that I quoted. My reply still stands though. You picked me up for "discussing" this, yet it was in response to a prior post that you failed to give the same response to.
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My mistake, it was @glasgowcyclist that I quoted. My reply still stands though. You picked me up for "discussing" this, yet it was in response to a prior post that you failed to give the same response to.
I read the link, thank you, which was posted After I posted you will note. Very interesting article, which goes against something I read about motorcycle helmets a while back. Can't find the article now though, unfortunately.
I shan't be commenting on anything helmet related from here on. Pointless where people are far from open minded.
snorri
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If your provocative posts are responded to then the thread will be locked, just keep it low key, nothing outrageous and all will be well, yet it was in response to a prior post that you failed to give the same response to.
.If your provocative posts are responded to then the thread will be locked, just keep it low key, nothing outrageous and all will be well
I found the post I quoted as provocative too, but not to worry, see above.
Drago
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To be fair, Nick Clegg's profession is politician - doesn't mean he knows sod all about politics.
And just because someone tests helmets doesn't automatically make them an authority. After all, if these testers are so clever then why after all these years are we still saddled with these ineffective polystyrene monstrosities?
And just because someone tests helmets doesn't automatically make them an authority. After all, if these testers are so clever then why after all these years are we still saddled with these ineffective polystyrene monstrosities?
glasgowcyclist
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snorri
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Has Nick ventured a view on cycle helmets then?
bikeman66
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Hahahaha! Head injuries not a problem??? This is getting farcical now. I guess you didn't see the video on Children in need last night, about a lad who (just once) forgot to put his bike helmet on, and unfortunately had a catastrophic accident involving a serious head injury. He was in hospital and rehabilitation for around 14 months and is still only just able to speak, cannot walk and needs constant attention. Now whether a helmet would have saved him completely is open to debate, but judging by the very moving words of his father, a head injury most certainly IS a problem.
@glasgowcyclist I am being told not to discuss this, yet you complain that I am following said advice.
Drago
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Why can't folk just wear them if they want to, and don't wear them if they don't want to? Why the slavering, rabid, mouth-foaming rhetoric?
I tells you, it's a good thing cycle helmet weren't around during the crusades else there really would've been some bother!
I tells you, it's a good thing cycle helmet weren't around during the crusades else there really would've been some bother!
Smokin Joe
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Whether a helmet would have made sod all difference is also open to debate.
bikeman66
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Fair comment Drago. I'll keep wearing the helmet then!
Drago
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A recent survey in the Daily Fail shows that since 1995 more people have died in helmet-debate-related killings than cyclists in collisions not wearing helmets.
glasgowcyclist
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@glasgowcyclist I am being told not to discuss this, yet you complain that I am following said advice.
I'm not convinced by that since your comment about not discussing it further came before the Mod's admonition.
Your given reason was in fact that it was:
I am, however, happy to continue discussing it with you in an appropriate thread in the helmet and headphones dungeon.
GC
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As you are back @bikeman66, I don't suppose you would feel like answering my question to you?
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