Having to wear a helmet to do a sportive

[PK99]

Nope, reviewed my post and I think I went a bit easy on him:-

cycling without a helmet - perfectly legal
cycling with headphones - perfectly legal
cycling, in this manner, on the roads his sportive will use - perfectly legal

I can enter a sportive and pootle off in any manner I like. What would the organsisers do, manhandle me off the road? 

refuse entry to feed stations?


refuse to rescue following mechanical?

 

[screenman]

I would like to say a big thank you to people who give up their time to organize events, be it with a helmet or without. Now this may say something about my club but the majority of organisers/marshalls etc. wear crash helmets when cycling.

As for going against an organizers wishes, totaly bad manners in my opinion.

 

[dellzeqq]

I'm sorry but I'm amazed by this last quote.... I find it hard to even put into words how ridiculous your decision to stop help organize bike rides for these youngsters purely based on the fact of been told they must wear helmets....
To not be able to see the benefits of having a lid on and not wanting to encourage the youngsters in the safe equipment to wear when cycling totally baffles me to be honest... I don't blame the scout movement for implementing this ruling and as a parent myself I'd be amazed if i let my son take part in a cycling event where the wearing of helmets wasn't compulsory.
Suppose you don't wear a seat belt either as these aren't really comfortable either are they!!!!!!!

it's a question of choice. If you don't want to be associated with something, and choose not to, it's your choice and nobody else's

 

[pig on a bike]

Did an audax today one lad fell on a bend in the rain first thing to hit the floor was his helmet he was ok after a few min and carried on if he had no helmet he would have been badly
hurt.Anybody who does not wear them must be abit daft or dont understand that thay save your life, I suppose being abit daft does lead to a lack of understanding on certain things.
Helmets should be law you are not allowed on a moter bike at any speed without one.

 

[ufkacbln]

Did an audax today one lad fell on a bend in the rain first thing to hit the floor was his helmet he was ok after a few min and carried on if he had no helmet he would have been badly
hurt.Anybody who does not wear them must be abit daft or dont understand that thay save your life, I suppose being abit daft does lead to a lack of understanding on certain things.
Helmets should be law you are not allowed on a moter bike at any speed without one.

Ridiculously naive faith in magic hats.....

Walking:
Was out walking today one lad slipped in the rain first thing to hit the floor was his head he was badly hurt.Anybody who does not wear a helmet must be abit daft or dont understand that thay save your life, I suppose being abit daft does lead to a lack of understanding on certain things.
Helmets should be law when walking you are not allowed on a motor bike at any speed without one.

Driving:

Was out in the car today one lad skidded on a bend in the rain first thing to hit the window was his head if he had been wearing a helmet he would have been ok.....Anybody who does not wear them must be abit daft or dont understand that thay save your life, I suppose being abit daft does lead to a lack of understanding on certain things.
Helmets should be law you are not allowed to race a car at any speed without one.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Did an audax today one lad fell on a bend in the rain first thing to hit the floor was his helmet he was ok after a few min and carried on if he had no helmet he would have been badly
hurt.Anybody who does not wear them must be abit daft or dont understand that thay save your life, I suppose being abit daft does lead to a lack of understanding on certain things.
Helmets should be law you are not allowed on a moter bike at any speed without one.

His helmet hit the floor because it increased the radius of his head by two inches and even the lightest helmet will lever your neck downwards. Fall without one and you will take the impact with your shoulders - as has been the case for around a centuary before helmets were worn.

Loads of posts about people who were saved by this magic bit of foam when they fell off, none detailng how someone was killed or disabled because they were bare headed. The uninformed sort of mumbo jumbo in your post is more an indication of a lack of understanding than anything else.

 

[pig on a bike]

mybe you could go out with the hat on in your picture clint.All pro riders have to have them on, mybe the govening body of pro bike racing has got it wrong could be down to a lack of understanding.Dident one of lances freinds die in the tour years ago without a helmet my be he might have lived with one.

His helmet hit the floor because it increased the radius of his head by two inches and even the lightest helmet will lever your neck downwards. Fall without one and you will take the impact with your shoulders - as has been the case for around a centuary before helmets were worn.

Loads of posts about people who were saved by this magic bit of foam when they fell off, none detailng how someone was killed or disabled because they were bare headed. The uninformed sort of mumbo jumbo in your post is more an indication of a lack of understanding than anything else.

 

[pig on a bike]

Your reply is to daft to answer

Ridiculously naive faith in magic hats.....

Walking:
Was out walking today one lad slipped in the rain first thing to hit the floor was his head he was badly hurt.Anybody who does not wear a helmet must be abit daft or dont understand that thay save your life, I suppose being abit daft does lead to a lack of understanding on certain things.
Helmets should be law when walking you are not allowed on a motor bike at any speed without one.

Driving:

Was out in the car today one lad skidded on a bend in the rain first thing to hit the window was his head if he had been wearing a helmet he would have been ok.....Anybody who does not wear them must be abit daft or dont understand that thay save your life, I suppose being abit daft does lead to a lack of understanding on certain things.
Helmets should be law you are not allowed to race a car at any speed without one.

 

[Smokin Joe]

mybe you could go out with the hat on in your picture clint.All pro riders have to have them on, mybe the govening body of pro bike racing has got it wrong could be down to a lack of understanding.Dident one of lances freinds die in the tour years ago without a helmet my be he might have lived with one.

Lance's friend (Fabio Casartelli) hit his forehead on the edge of a concrete block at 90kph. No he would not have survived with a helmet on, which is what the coroner concluded at the time. The pros wear helmets when they race because it is a UCI rule, look at pictures of them training and most don't.

Probably due to knowing that prior to widespread helmet use a decade ago deaths from head injuries in the pro peloton were remarkable by their abscence, and this in a branch of cycling where the participants crash many times more often than any other catagory of rider.

The word "daft" that you used in answer to Cunobelin would more aptly apply to your uninformed gibberish.

 

[Flying Dodo]

Your reply is to daft to answer

No, he's making a valid point. By the same logic that all cyclists "should" wear helmets, therefore all pedestrians and car users "should" also wear helmets. He also forgot to mention that anyone going up a ladder must also wear one, in case they fall off.

 

[snorri]

.Anybody who does not wear them must be abit daft or dont understand that thay save your life, I suppose being abit daft does lead to a lack of understanding on certain things.
Helmets should be law you are not allowed on a moter bike at any speed without one.

Yes, they are wonderful, no one gets killed on motor bikes any more.

 

[PalmerSperry]

Did an audax today one lad fell on a bend in the rain first thing to hit the floor was his helmet he was ok after a few min and carried on if he had no helmet he would have been badly
hurt.Anybody who does not wear them must be abit daft or dont understand that thay save your life, I suppose being abit daft does lead to a lack of understanding on certain things.
Helmets should be law you are not allowed on a moter bike at any speed without one.

Not a bad effort at parodying the usual mandatory-magic-plastic-hat zealotry, but you did miss out the often included laughable justifications involving either head butting brick walls or having someone hit you over the head with a hammer!

 

[ufkacbln]

No, he's making a valid point. By the same logic that all cyclists "should" wear helmets, therefore all pedestrians and car users "should" also wear helmets. He also forgot to mention that anyone going up a ladder must also wear one, in case they fall off.

The point is that he has no real argument other than anyone who doesn't agree with me is daft, an extremely constructive contribution

Lets not forget that peer reviewed BMJ articles have placed the likelihood of cyclists and pedestrians as equal, and the number of pedeatrian and car occupants exceed those of cyclists many fold.

However I suspect that they they will be dismissed as daft and not worth reading as they don't support compulsion

 

[snorri]

Interesting prog on R4 tonight, the cycling safety segment starts at 10minutes 55seconds in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00tjsj3

 

[PpPete]

Your reply is to daft to answer

Your argument, specious as it is, is weakened by your inability to spell "too" or to distinguish it from "to"

Regards,
A helmet wearer, (but not a helmet evangelist)