To55ers at glentress yesterday

cee

bigchazrocks wrote:

It's MY choice. Call it stupid, but I look stupid wearing it, for the 5 minute ride. And yes, looks ARE important. If I look like a tool, I'll get treated as one by my seniors / superiors. Which inturn, GREATLY lessens my chance of promotion. Like it or not. ol:

in fairness....the armed forces are no different to loads of organisations in that your superiors will treat you like a tool regardless

MrChuck

bigchazrocks wrote:

If I look like a tool, I'll get treated as one by my seniors / superiors. Which inturn, GREATLY lessens my chance of promotion. Like it or not.

Seriously? I don't know anything about the army but that's pretty disappointing!

passout

I thought that the army wore their helmets a lot these days?

Steve_F

I saw two lads at GT months ago coming down magic mushroom and dropping off the big drop off at the end. I'd never spotted the line they took before and they flew off it. Neither of them had helmets on probably cos they knew every line and had never fell off.

If helmets were going to be compulsory how about full facers? Landing on the front part of your face/head could make every bit as much mess.

If someone tried something like a big drop/jump and got it wrong would you be pi$$ed at them for spoiling your ride or day out?

Would you force people to wear helmets uphill as well as down?

I would prefer to see everyone wearing a helmet at trail centres but by no mean would I want to force that on people. I rode GT without mine once when I forgot it, Used it as a training run up the hills and slowly down, would've been gutted if I had to go home.

I met two young lads at Golspie pushing up the track at the weekend. They were out of the way well before I got there and shouted a big apology. They passed me when I took a break after and were incredibly polite and very apologetic. They were wearing normal t-shirts and trackie bottoms (possibly tucked into socks) yet I've never bumped into anyone so polite on the trails.

Chaz.Harding

cee wrote:

in fairness....the armed forces are no different to loads of organisations in that your superiors will treat you like a tool regardless

Yeah, fair point... But I am reasonably smart... Well, compared to some of the helmets I work with (see what I did there..?? )

MrChuck wrote:

Seriously? I don't know anything about the army but that's pretty disappointing!

And yup. It's all BS. If it LOOKS good, it IS good. Not disappionting really, you just gotta know how to 'play the game'.

passout wrote:

I thought that the army wore their helmets a lot these days?

Yup, we do have to wear our helmets alot these days, but I'd get some right funny looks if I started wearing my kevlar on my bikes!!

Now, I might like to say that I ALWAYS wear my helmet for my motorbike / MX stuff, and whenever I go for a dedicated ride - on road or off-road. Just not on my short ride to work 8)