Re: Cyclists wanted : any age, no experience necessary!

On Jun 29, 9:16 am, "mileburner" <milebur...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Derek C wrote:

However well trained and careful you are, you can still get knocked
off you bike by some other dozy road user! That's the time when you
need a crash helmet.

BTW, I don't buy the 'you can protect your head with your arms
argument' In the two accidents I have had when I banged my head
against something (one on a bicycle, one on a motorbike) everything
happened so quickly that I didn't have time to react, even
instinctively.

It's interesting to note that somone who has a history of coming off bikes,
is an advocate of cycle helmets.

Several people have said to me "Shouldn't you be wearing a helmet?" and
"What if you fall off?", but since I have never fallen off or had a cycling
accident I guess that I don't really appreciate how important a helmet might
be in those circumstances (although I do wear one for faster, longer, out of
town rides). ISTM those of us in the habit of fallling off and having
accidents, should really be wearing helmets, for those of us who don't, then
it does not really matter that much.

Correction. You haven't fallen off or had a cycling accident yet! BTW
you are statistically much more likely to have an accident in a town
where there are lots of junctions and other road users than out in the
countryside.

Some people, particularly those who ride mountain bikes, seem to fall
off on an almost weekly basis. I played golf with a guy last week, who
said that it was the first round he had played for over a month, due
to wrist injury picked up falling off his mountain bike. He still had
the remains of a black eye and had required stitches in several head
and face wounds.

Derek C
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