Cycle helmets

[Woodchip]

Just a quick poll for all the cyclists out there.

How many of you wear a cycle helmet and how many don't?

Car drivers without a bike, click the tin-canner option

 

[pasty]

Yes. Always.

 

[Badger]

Yep...and it's bright yellow!

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

Mine has got cheese all round the rim.

 

[REDLAND]

On the road I don't, its naughty but I don't care

I sometimes do on the downs.

I do in the mountains mind but thats a different ball game ..

 

[dougdeep]

On your bike! I'd look silly.

 

[Woodchip]

Oh, and I wear mine all the time (especially in the forest and on the Downs), having seen a mate of mine try to bounce head first off chalk at 30mph and split his helmet it makes you realise what they're there for.

 

[pasty]

.... and split his helmet

 

[bhaexpress]

I don't right now but yes I know I should so I will, deal ? In fairness I not only have lights I also have a HiViz jacket.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I always remember an Argus front page picture which had a cyclist holding up his helmet with a large piece of glass sticking out of the top following a crash. Without the helmet he would almost certainly have been killed. That said, I own one but never use it, my cranium's too big and I'd opt for death rather than looking a twat riding around town in my helmet.

 

[tedebear]

Arthur wears his for tricycling even now, can't start em young enough!!

 

[queens park pete]

I am only ever asked why I am not wearing one by lard arsed motorists who never ever go any where under their own steam- if they cycled up Southover St wearing a helmet they would know why I sometimes have to dangle my helmet over my handlebars (sorry Les).

 

[queens park pete]

Since helmets only protect you at 12mph or less, the 30 mph smasher was just lucky!

 

[Woodchip]

I am only ever asked why I am not wearing one by lard arsed motorists who never ever go any where under their own steam- if they cycled up Southover St wearing a helmet they would know why I sometimes have to dangle my helmet over my handlebars (sorry Les).

Possibly need to buy one with better ventilation then.

 

[Woodchip]

Since helmets only protect you at 12mph or less, the 30 mph smasher was just lucky!

That I never knew. I'll have to cycle slower in future then.

 

[Cian]

Never wear one (no legal requirement to), willing to take the injury/death that could happen.

 

[Yoda]

Not on road. I don't take risks and don't cycle like a prat.

Sometime wear it off road (depending on the route I'm taking).

 

[Woodchip]

Never wear one (no legal requirement to), willing to take the injury/death that could happen.

It's not a legal requirement to slit your wrists. Does that mean you do it?

 

[Cian]

It's not a legal requirement to slit your wrists. Does that mean you do it?

Thats about as sensible a comparison as the old mothers thing of "If your friend Johnny jumped off a cliff..."

And what if I did? I could be a depressed emo kid, sitting in a darkened room slashing myself to My Chemical Romance, for all you know

 

[Woodchip]

Thats about as sensible a comparison as the old mothers thing of "If your friend Johnny jumped off a cliff..."

And what if I did? I could be a depressed emo kid, sitting in a darkened room slashing myself to My Chemical Romance, for all you know

No, you seem too normal for that. Oh, and the fact you're about 40 (I think no offence meant if your younger) probably nulls the comment "kid" quite heavily.