Re: Protection for casual rider

On Tue, 13 Jun, cathwood <> wrote:
Ian Smith wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, tomkarches <> wrote:

cathwood wrote:
Well I always wear a helmet (having been a nurse and seen the
consequences of when people don't)

Bad logic.

Helmet is a must. I have a cousin who sustained a closed head injury
in an accident after not wearing a helmet.:(

Bad logic.


Personally, for casual riding, I don't wear anything (well, maybe I
should rephrase that as I don't wear anything other than what I would
wear for casual walking).

Nothing to do with logic. To do with being able to easily do something
to stop being brain damaged in a nasty fall.

No, it was very, very bad logic:
You said that because you've seen some head injuries, wearing a
helmet while unicycling will make a difference.

Your errors:

1: Assuming that you can extrapolate from whatever those people were
doing to casual unicycle riding.

2: Assuming that a helmet would have made a difference to those
people. You don't know.

3: Assuming that a helmet will have only beneficial effects. The
population evidence does not support this.


If that's actually your reason for wearing a helmet, you would wear
one whenever going up and down stairs (lots of head injuries doing
that), or walking along teh road (ditto). If you don't do that, your
stated 'reason' is clearly invalid.

By all means wear a helmet, but don't pretend there's a good reason -
you may as well say "because I was a soldier and have seen teh damage
that can occur when you're hit by a bomb, always carry a lucky rabbits
foot when unicycling".

regards, Ian SMith
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