Cycle Helmets and what they are useful for

prj45
prj45 Posts: 2,208
edited September 2010 in Commuting chat
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Do you have one that protects from mahsoooof images?
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I think cycle helmets would make excellent salad spinners.

    I might buy one.
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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    Asprilla wrote:
    Do you have one that protects from mahsoooof images?

    I tried to resize it with bb code, but it ain't working:

    http://www.bbcode.org/examples/?id=10
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    a helmet might have helped here

    http://www.twitvid.com/Q41DB
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  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    Ahhhh.....a helmet thread.
    This post contains traces of nuts.
  • WesternWay
    WesternWay Posts: 564
    I reckon you could make a small hanging basket from one.

    My old one could possibly have been used to wage chemical war against a moderate sized army.
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    WesternWay wrote:
    I reckon you could make a small hanging basket from one.

    My old one could possibly have been used to wage chemical war against a moderate sized army.

    Suspect the holes might be too big, but some reasonably fine mesh would sort that out - nice idea tbh.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    WesternWay wrote:
    I reckon you could make a small hanging basket from one.

    My old one could possibly have been used to wage chemical war against a moderate sized army.

    Suspect the holes might be too big, but some reasonably fine mesh would sort that out - nice idea tbh.

    That is! You could grow salad in a cycle helmet and spin it in one!
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    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • mickbrown
    mickbrown Posts: 100
    "Helmeted cyclists have more fatal accidents than unhelmeted ones"

    Is that a fact?

    Proportionally or just actual amount?

    I'm worried - I wear a helmet - I'm just waiting for the bugger to kill me now.
  • WesternWay
    WesternWay Posts: 564
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    WesternWay wrote:
    I reckon you could make a small hanging basket from one.

    My old one could possibly have been used to wage chemical war against a moderate sized army.

    Suspect the holes might be too big, but some reasonably fine mesh would sort that out - nice idea tbh.

    That is! You could grow salad in a cycle helmet and spin it in one!

    Perfect. If it was a fancy helmet, maybe it could also act as a serving bowl.

    We may have REVOLUTIONIZED salad here.

    I'm off to buy my rerrari
  • the_hundredth_idiot
    the_hundredth_idiot Posts: 813
    WesternWay wrote:
    I reckon you could make a small hanging basket from one.

    My old one could possibly have been used to wage chemical war against a moderate sized army.

    I took a while to figure this out, but are you admitting you have a very smelly helmet? :shock:
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  • Kazz_uk
    Kazz_uk Posts: 73
    Now look what you've started :roll: .
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  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    The Hundredth Idiot wrote:
    WesternWay wrote:
    I reckon you could make a small hanging basket from one.

    My old one could possibly have been used to wage chemical war against a moderate sized army.

    I took a while to figure this out, but are you admitting you have a very smelly helmet? :shock:

    I think he's saying that his helmet is his means of communicating disease to lots of fit young men.
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  • WesternWay
    WesternWay Posts: 564
    DesWeller wrote:
    The Hundredth Idiot wrote:
    WesternWay wrote:
    I reckon you could make a small hanging basket from one.

    My old one could possibly have been used to wage chemical war against a moderate sized army.

    I took a while to figure this out, but are you admitting you have a very smelly helmet? :shock:

    I think he's saying that his helmet is his means of communicating disease to lots of fit young men.

    might be *coy*

    Hang on.....No I'm not.
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    I find mine very handy as a little basket to carry my tool pack, shades, mitts etc. when off the bike....
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    PBo wrote:
    I find mine very handy as a little basket to carry my tool pack, shades, mitts etc. when off the bike....

    I use mine as an impromptu basket in Aldi or LiDL until I find a suitable empty carton. Neither supply baskets and I can't stand pushing trolleys around supermarkets.
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  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    I think he's saying that his helmet is his means of communicating disease to lots of fit young men.

    I'm told that there are ladies that do that too. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    kin el, how old are we?!
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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    Clever Pun wrote:
    a helmet might have helped here

    http://www.twitvid.com/Q41DB

    :shock:
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    downfader wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    a helmet might have helped here

    http://www.twitvid.com/Q41DB

    :shock:

    That's a bit too ''in-your-face'' melondramatic for my tastes....
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  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    I use one of these each day depending on how I feel.

    Then I get the benefit of wearing a lid and actually being safe whilst people think I'm not wearing a helmet so I'm statistically safer (yeah right!)

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    more here

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  • OrbitRider
    OrbitRider Posts: 78
    Helmets have their uses.
    On one occasion I got home from work & went to put the bike in the garage. I opened the "up-and-over" door and was wheeling the bike in when my cat leapt from the top of the fence to the open garage door, bringing it down on my head. V. glad I was still wearing the helmet...
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    They protect you if you crash into these hazards

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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Mine regularly protects my head when I bang it on the garage door. I also find it to be a very handy place to keep my gloves, cap, glasses and computer, both on my desk at work and next to front door.

    I've be lost without my helmet.
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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    _Brun_ wrote:
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    Look, somebody always has to take things too far, don't they?

    A fun, amusing thread to relieve the tedium of the "proper' "debate" in the other section.

    And somebody comes along (I'm Looking at YOU, Brun) and gets all offensive.

    I've reported your post.



















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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Yeah but Jurrasic 5 :D

    can we ban cleat eastwood for ruining peoples vision over the weekend with that heinous picture?
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Yeah but Jurrasic 5 :D

    can we ban cleat eastwood for ruining peoples vision over the weekend with that heinous picture?

    Keep meaning to ask - from your profile, have you changed jobs/locations?

    Evidence? 1) a vague memory that the SCR racetrack used to end elsewhere

    2) you can't spell the name of your new location yet......
  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    Asprilla wrote:
    Mine regularly protects my head when I bang it on the garage door.

    First time you did that (and every time since) you shoud've replaced it!

    Anyway, maybe if you weren't wearing it you'd be more careful (or being a couple of inches shorter you might miss the door altogether).
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    plowmar wrote:
    I think he's saying that his helmet is his means of communicating disease to lots of fit young men.

    I'm told that there are ladies that do that too. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

    If you find yourself catching diseases from a lady's helmet you might want to consider just how much of as lady she actually is.

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