Bradley Wiggins calls for safer cycling laws and compulsory helmets

[GrumpyGregry]

Sod the cat what the feck is going on with that extra brake lever?

 

[benb]

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Thankyou for your valuable contribution.

 

[Linford]

You'd expect to see any benefits to helmet wearing to show up in the epidemiological studies that compare the KSI rates of helmetted and bare headed cyclsits. They don't. Your assertion is demonstrably false.

It might be helpful for you if read up on the scientific method.

Can you supply the specifics with the source ifyou wantto make this claim ?

 

[Linford]

Questions, questions... Is it going to go on like this indefinitely, or can we be expected to be let in on the point of your enquiries any time soon?

I'm interested to see if you respect the resulting damage which always accompanies this. You sound fairly invincible to me.

 

[benb]

We did logical fallacies in the first year Ben, c'mon do keep up, your in the 6th form now.

Would you care to elaborate? If the proportion of head injuries does not decrease when the proportion of helmetted cyclists increases, then either:
1) helmets do not significantly protect against head injuries, or
2) helmetted cyclists are involved in more accidents that cause head injuries

 

[Boris Bajic]

The people who will decide this will be MPs in Parliament or the devolved assemblies, not motorists. And they are lobbied by the leaders of organisations who want to make them compulsory but have little interest otherwise in cycling such as BHIT and Headway (whose Chairman is currently lobbying the Welsh Assembly for a mandatory helmet law for Wales). And its cyclists who have led the development of the lobbying to counter that with both the CTC and ECF very actively involved in campaigning with Goverhment to retain freedom of choice.

Your banter might carry more weight if you knew something about how things happen but feel free to keep twit-twoo-ing as your contribution to a serious issue.

My banter is (as you seem to detect) intended to carry no weight.

Its only intended function on this thread is to make myself giggle.

Sadly (or not) there are people on this thread who think these debates do matter, that they are serious and that other readers take them and their views seriously.

 

[Boris Bajic]

You could type it out, allow yourself the self satisfied chuckle you deserve, and delete it. Save bothering the rest of us.

Knowing that my inanities have intruded in the ordered thinking of others is part of what generates the giggle.

It is puerile, shallow, self-regarding and irresponsible - but surely that's what these helmet debates are for.

I believe I have the data to hand that will prove I am right.

 

[benb]

Start at page 1 and give me a shout when you've done. ta.

OK, done. Now what? Have you got an alternative explanation? What exactly is your issue with the evidence?

 

[srw]

Sod the cat what the feck is going on with that extra brake lever?

Tandem drag brake?

 

[benb]

Congratulations! You've won the internet.

Have you actually got a point to make, or are you just being deliberately annoying?

 

[Linford]

Have you actually got a point to make, or are you just being deliberately annoying?

Pot and kettle ?

 

[screenman]

Where can I find the records of people with undamaged heads because they were wearing a helmet?

 

[ufkacbln]

Apparently, the validity of ones opinion is directly proportional to miles cycled.

Having done approximately 50 miles in total this year, I implore you, to ignore everything I say.

Thank you.

However if you were to measure that in Journeys, or Time ... or even quality?

 

[screenman]

Adrian, both you and I know that is not what I was looking for. I was sure the anti helmet brigade would have the information.

 

[benb]

Pot and kettle ?

Where have I been deliberately annoying?