Wiggins is now pro-compulsion it seems .... Nobber.

[snorri]

Is it not common sense that until it's legal to wear helmets on motorised quads and trikes then it can't be made compulsory on cycles, there's no logic

A dangerous precedent to bring in common sense and logic, and in the same sentence too.

 

[glenn forger]

http://jech.bmj.com/content/43/3/218.full.pdf

http://www.john-adams.co.uk/2007/11/17/risk-compensation-deniers/

Airbags. Seatbelts. Crumple zones. All make the driver feel safer. There's no reason that I can see that the same doesn't apply with styrofoam hats.

 

[snorri]

Can't be far from a thread lock now!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

On my commute I wear a flame-retardant suit, goggles, crash helmet, leather gauntlets and bio-hazard overalls.

I've seen you!

GC

 

[ufkacbln]

Got any proof of that?

Both he and Cracknell are sponsored by helmet companies

Look at the sponsorship lists

 

[ufkacbln]

I expect money changed hands. Why was that photo in the paper? And that jacket? I suspect without any proof that Mr Tidy Beard wanted his face in the paper and Sir Bradley Sideburns obliged but not free of charge.

Once again the petty use of insults and playground name calling makes this post immature and pointless

 

[glenn forger]

"I reckon people should wear helmets" says a bloke who trousers money from people who make helmets.

 

[glenn forger]

Once again the petty use of insults and lay ground names makes this isn't of little value

Why do you think "tidy beard" is an insult?

 

[glenn forger]

That's not really a sentence either.

I love that tidy beard, I understand it's trimmed with freakin' lasers. The double-breasted leather jacket, not so much.

 

[ufkacbln]

Why do you think "tidy beard" is an insult?

I do love the irony of

And please take a bit more care with your spelling, it's like a ten-year-old is posting.

 

[glenn forger]

Where do you think the irony is there?

 

[Joffey]

That's not what you said - you said your friend would probably have died without the helmet. I'm saying you can't possibly know that, and nor can the doctor who said it.
That's what I object to - the parading of anecdote as if it were fact.

I'm not anti-helmet. I'm pro-evidence.

I never said he probably would have died, the doctor did (see later post) - due to this I can offer no evidence but it was not my opinion.

I was not parading it was fact, I merely said that due to my experience with my mate crashing I had made the choice to wear a helmet.

Anyway, like I said countless times before, I was just seeing what the arguments were for not wearing one and a few kind posters have advised me of this now.

To be honest I couldn't care less if others wear them or not, or if people argue for or against them.

 

[ufkacbln]

It is simple....


Someone comparing another poster with a ten year old and then using playground names that a 10 year old would Find immature and unfunny

 

[glenn forger]

I've got two five year olds here who thought they were hilarious CHECKMATE

 

[glenn forger]

I never said he probably would have died, the doctor did

What's the doctor's name?