Why don't commuters and roadies wear these helmets?
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When I was a kid I hit myself on the head enough times doing non-cycling things that it wasn't too much of a leap to guess that falling off a bike would probably hurt as well! Having said that, I never did wear a helmet and I did fall off and never got badly injured, so I'm sure for thousands of people, Rich's method works just fine. It's for the few dozen who are seriously injured or killed that things are tragically different, and if I can prevent my kids form being among them, then it's a no-brainer.0
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biondino wrote:(I had an accident when I was a kid - not on a bike - where I was messing on a ladder, lost my grip and fell off, backwards, onto a concrete floor from about 6 foot up. My head hit the floor incredibly hard - or at least it would have if I hadn't been wearing, um, a bowler hat I'd been dressing up in :oops: )
You've convinced me. That's the kid's cycling helmets in the bin this very evening. Now where can I get them some bowler hats?0 -
rhext wrote:biondino wrote:the only way kids are going to learn that helmets might have a use in life is by getting themselves a really big lump on the head.
Or by falling of their bike while wearing a helmet, smacking their head really hard and becoming VERY clear almost instantaneously why they're wearing one.
You must have different types of kids from me. Mine seem incapable of making that connection! Apart from that they don't seem particularly thick, but that could be just the proud parent in me!
I think they've seen me rolling arround the floor in agony enough times to realise that mountain biking is dangerous. It's a case of if we don't copy dad we'll be fine
pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................
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Interesting topic to see...
I have just started to commute 2 to 3 days a week after not really riding for 10 years. I wear a full face helmet for the hour ride to get to the office or home again.
There's not many people around in full face and you do get some strange looks - BUT last time i was seriously riding and came off i face planted at considerable speed resulting in about 20 stitches in and around my mouth and tooth damage which has cost me thousands to try and fix over the years since. All in all not great.
So for the sake of being a bit hot I'd rather protect my face as well. For me there is no other option.0 -
When I used to ride DH, I'd ride to and from the track. On the road sections, I took my helmet off and clipped it to my bag. This wasn't because I would get too hot, but because they're so dangerous in traffic. Your hearing is destroyed, when we were all standing around in full face helmets waiting to do a run, unless someone was shouting, you can't hear them. Side visibility is appalling. For a glance back in a normal helmet, I have to turn my head to maybe 75 degrees off looking forward and rotate my eyes for the rest. In a full face helmet, I would have to rotate my entire body so that I could actually turn my head through mearly 180 degrees from my direction of motion.. This turns a 1 second glance into a 5 second full body contortion, not good at all in traffic. Seeing what traffic coming out of side roads or at roundabouts was doing was also far harder.
Stick to the normal helmets.0 -
Always Tyred wrote:
Does is come in white?lost_in_thought wrote:
A lighter summer option...
How about this?
Of course there is only one glove, and the head protection is a bit eccentric for cycling, but hey...
I used to fit into that better, but now the breeches are a bit small for my calves...
I used to wear it regularly, (my weapon of choice was sabre, but have no time now...)
Another sport with strong French connections, that has really odd-looking (and positively camp) outfits.0
