Is there a stigma to only wear a cap?

[snorri]

some of them will look the same, they’re riding for the same team????

It's a team game?

 

[Fab Foodie]

some of them will look the same, they’re riding for the same team????

They always did....

 

[Brandane]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n9oK9EBfy80

ALWAYS wear a helmet............. when repairing your car!
When on a bike - make your own choice. I'm on the "no helmet" side.

 

[Brandane]

Bareheaded, I somehow survived a head-on collision with a van whose driver lost control and veered onto the wrong side of the road.

I hope you wear a helmet when out walking too, then; that van could have ended up on the pavement.

 

[Randomnerd]

Sadly desperate is cap matching helmet matching glasses matching Jersey matching bike 😊 and think yourself lucky there is no picture of the matching shorts

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These aren’t matching dear boy; they may be of a lime hue, but they ain’t matching. You need a stylist, pronto, old fruit

 

[MontyVeda]

ALWAYS wear a helmet............. when repairing your car!
When on a bike - make your own choice. I'm on the "no helmet" side.

There's always going to be a moment when a helmet would have helped.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I wear a cap under my helmet on cool days. I wish i'd worn one that time when a wasp entered my helmet and stung my head! i didn't have time to stop and take my helmet off before it struck. Don't wash cycling caps in a washing machine. Yes i know it tells you not to on the label of most,but you might be tempted, thinking 'it's only a cap,what bad thing could happen to it'? From experience,the ones i've machine washed fade in colour and worse than that the flip up and down visor breaks and it them hangs down permanently,blocking your sight ahead.

 

[jay clock]

I wear a cap. Just a cap

 

[BalkanExpress]

These aren’t matching dear boy; they may be of a lime hue, but they ain’t matching. You need a stylist, pronto, old fruit

At the risk of causing offence...

clearly matching , you can question my sense of style but the sense of history

 

[rogerzilla]

In messenger circles, a cap where the peak hasn't yet snapped is considered a sign of the ingenue and therefore not cool.

My favourite ever cap was a 1992 grey Lotto team cap (with broken peak). I lost it after the 2005 Dunwich Dynamo and my life has been meaningless since.

 

[Brads]

Still look cool as, even Sans Rapha !!

 

[kynikos]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n9oK9EBfy80

Is this a plea for everyone repairing cars to wear a helmet?

 

[faster]

My observation when riding is excellent, thanks. And the roads are quiet lanes. I'm only saying what I see; I don't care what anyone else does really. A lot of the riders were probably novices like me and maybe they're more likely to wear one?

People do seem to get very wound up about this though. But then I suppose the evidence isn't that compelling, unlike with something like hi-viz clothing.

I'm sure there is nothing wrong with your observation Kevfm, as in the 'quiet lanes' that's what I see too.

Whilst I see quite a few cyclists around town not wearing helmets, they are mostly kids, utility cyclists or people who look like they have just had their car repossessed. Lots without helmets on canal paths too, but out of town on the roads it's extremely rare around here to see anyone without a helmet.

I'm sure that 40% of cyclists not wearing helmets statistic is true, but I wouldn't be surprised if the 40% did 90% of the miles.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

At least in the UK you have a choice: in Australia, there's more than a stigma associated with not wearing a bicycle helmet whilst cycling.

 

[oldwheels]

In normal times I see quite a lot of touring cyclists. Many of them have helmets, not on their heads but tied behind on the top of the saddlebag or panniers.