Bradley Wiggins calls for safer cycling laws and compulsory helmets

[Linford]

Which just about hits the nail on the head.... LInford has a track record of ignoring anything that does not fit his agenda and making untrue claims to support his agenda

I'd like to see where that is the case and where I've not stood corrected ?

For someone who works in healthcare, you really do display a cavalier approach to keeping all the body parts intact, and in the right place

 

[Linford]

Have a look at how many kids on BMXs are wearing helmets (or even sporting brakes)

All of the serious ones on my local BMX track use them - but then they've probably fallen off a few times and as a result, now recognise that unprotected body parts get damaged easily when it connects with other things.....

 

[guitarpete247]

I just Googled "Bradley Wiggins' helmet comments". Most of the results are MP's and councils and councillors jumping on the band wagon. I wish he hadn't said anything.
Even though he has retracted his initial response. "Posting on Twitter later on in the day, Wiggins said: "Just to confirm I haven't called for helmets to be made the law as reports suggest. I suggested it may be the way to go to give cyclists more protection legally." " this hasn't been taken up by the press or those with votes to gain or other political axes to grind.
I wear a helmet. But that is my choice, nobody else's (except SWMBO'd) as is other adults' choice not to.

:troll: I feel that for children. though, that is a different kettle of fish .:troll:

 

[ufkacbln]

2% is way way too much if it could be reduced by compulsive lid wearing

Which nicely brings us to the Thudguard.............which implies that it could protect over 100 times as may children from head injury than ccle helmets would.

Using the standard pro - compulsion tactics....

Over 318,575 baby & toddler head injuries are recorded each year!"

Department for Trade and Industry

Any device which helps to reduce the number of head injuries sustained by young children each year is most welcome

John Heyworth, President, British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine

Throughout more than 20 years as an emergency paramedic, I have encountered numerous worried parents who have called an ambulance because their young toddler took a fall and suffered a head injury.

This (Thudguard) can only be a good thing as even one accidental head injury is one too many. Avoiding head injury means reducing potential visits to the A&E department, which in turn may potentially save the NHS resources.

Dr Diana Macgregor, Associate Specialist, Accident & Emergency, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital

(The Thudguard)should make a valuable contribution to risk reduction in a similar way to cycle helmets...

David W. Jenkins BA MPhil(Eng) PhD DCA FTSI, Product Safety Adviser to RoSPA


Given all of this, why are we not looking at compulsion for these undeniably effective and worthy aids to child safety.

 

[theclaud]

2% is way way too much if it could be reduced by compulsive lid wearing

A revealing slip...

 

[StuartG]

By gum - I gave up at page 15 and dear Linford is still denying reality. What's the point? Picking on the brain damaged (hence proving their helmets ineffective) is verging on the cruel ...

 

[Red Light]

The implication that people will not want to cycle any more because the legislation compelling them to start wearing protective headgear for their own good is just ridiculous.

You really don't have a clue do you? Do you make statements like that through ignorance or because you are making a lame attempt to troll? Not only compulsion by the way but also promotion of helmets.

How about this for an analogy.

You don't have a clue about analogies either.

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[Linford]

Are you genuinely unaware of the Australian figures?

They said that about motorcycle crash helmets, but the reality is that the decline in motorcycling is being driven by very expensive obstacles being put in the way of the prospects - and not just the cost of a £30 lid.

My motorbike lid cost nearly £300 three years ago. I'll be looking at another one in a years time. It has been worth every penny.
I started motorbiking on the road nearly 10 years after compulsion for them. The very vast majority of bikers also feel the same as I do about their heads....

 

[lukesdad]

By gum - I gave up at page 15 and dear Linford is still denying reality. What's the point? Picking on the brain damaged (hence proving their helmets ineffective) is verging on the cruel ...

I guess linf feels the same way about slow learners

 

[theclaud]

 

[theclaud]

^^That was for Linf, btw!

 

[Linford]

You really don't have a clue do you? Do you make statements like that through ignorance or because you are making a lame attempt to troll? Not only compulsion by the way but also promotion of helmets.



You don't have a clue about analogies either.

I'll put it again

It is against the law for people to cycle on the motorway.

Would you suggest that this law is repealed as it might also discourage people from cycling?

 

[Linford]

I thought the smilies were supposed to clarify the words.

Claudine is using a smilie

 

[theclaud]

I thought the smilies were supposed to clarify the words.

There were no words!

 

[theclaud]

Linf appears to think that posting something stupid twice makes it look less stupid.