:: No Helmet :: No Ride

[MikeD]

How exactly would the Tommy Cooper Fez Go-fast type helmets assist either of the riders pictured/highlightd earlier in this thread.. just pre face plant. Presumably the manafacturers have data suggesting riders heads collide well goalside of thier eyebrow-line.

It's this sort of nonsense that gives the anti-helmet argument a bad name.

 

[konatime]

How exactly would the Tommy Cooper Fez Go-fast type helmets assist either of the riders pictured/highlightd earlier in this thread.. just pre face plant. Presumably the manafacturers have data suggesting riders heads collide well goalside of thier eyebrow-line.

It's this sort of nonsense that gives the anti-helmet argument a bad name.

Nothing of the sort our kid, it's directions to Alicante

The helmets folk wear offer partial protection...from talking to some characterless pricks out there they would much rather go partial protection and risk having thier mouth/ears/cheeks obliterated than wear an helmet with ear and mouth gaurds and risk mockery on thier jack jones. Sometimes straight forward embarassment is a funny mother.

 

[makster]

When I attended my first organised retrobike ride, not long after I joined, I was the only one without a helmet.
I was very much like the chaps mentioned earlier, and turned up wearing football shorts, a waterproof top, ankle socks and astro-turf footy boots!
There were a few hushed comments, but I was cut some slack as this was my first big ride in almost 20 years
Any guesses who was first to wipe out??

Not long afterwards I invested in a helmet and now wear one pretty much the whole time I'm on a bike. I've been lucky in that I've not had a crash since that's made me thankful I was wearing it, but it's bound to happen at some point.

As for the requirement to wear one on organised rides, just do the decent thing and wear one! Rides can take a lot of sorting out, so why further stress the organisers by not towing the line?

 

[MikeD]

The helmets folk wear offer partial protection...from talking to some characterless pricks out there they would much rather go partial protection and risk having thier mouth/ears/cheeks obliterated than wear an helmet with ear and mouth gaurds and risk mockery on thier jack jones. Sometimes straight forward embarassment is a funny mother.

Jeez, I though regular helmet zealots had it bad. Now we've got full-face zealots.

Ear protection? This is a troll, yes?

 

[Andy R]

some characterless pricks out there they would much rather go partial protection and risk having thier mouth/ears/cheeks obliterated than wear an helmet with ear and mouth gaurds and risk mockery on thier jack jones. Sometimes straight forward embarassment is a funny mother.

So, you wear a full face helmet on every ride do you? Even one that might involve hours of climbing in high temperatures?
I don't know anyone who does, but then I suppose, since we're all characterless pricks, we don't know any better. Same as we don't have five point harnesses and roll cages in our everyday cars - we just balance reasonable protection against the maximum possible.
But this thread seems to have degenerated into the worst kind of internet shite - calling people things that you wouldn't say to their faces.

 

[unkleGsif]

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[konatime]

some characterless pricks out there they would much rather go partial protection and risk having thier mouth/ears/cheeks obliterated than wear an helmet with ear and mouth gaurds and risk mockery on thier jack jones. Sometimes straight forward embarassment is a funny mother.

So, you wear a full face helmet on every ride do you? Even one that might involve hours of climbing in high temperatures?
I don't know anyone who does, but then I suppose, since we're all characterless pricks, we don't know any better. Same as we don't have five point harnesses and roll cages in our everyday cars - we just balance reasonable protection against the maximum possible.
But this thread seems to have degenerated into the worst kind of internet shite - calling people things that you wouldn't say to their faces.

I think your presuming a bit too much Andrew (are ya Highlanders cousin?)

Dont presume anything mate, and feel free to chat about what exactly a plant pot helmet will offer in the earlier highlighted pic's. I've heard you mention you riding in heat before....you sound a clever enough fella to know making policy according to your street might not be the way forward, though the parachute type helmet with ear and teeth protection will still allow you to vent.

When folk tell me what i should/'nt be wearing....i make a point of asking them about thier toomy cooper hat and purposefully and politely ask them about it's short comings, when they agree but add they would'nt dream of wearing a chin ear gaurd helmet on thier own......i call 'em everything i can lay me tongue on...till they call it...or **** off out of me face.

 

[Whatleymeister]

I am amazed this has gone over 6 pages!

Surely the resulting outcome in between all the insults and handbags is that wearing a helmet is a personal choice, plain and simple, but if you want to go on an organised ride where wearing a helmet is the rules, then you have to wear one, be it club rules, insurance or otherwise. Simple as that.

Fairly certain that this isnt an opportunity to start trying to have digs at each other. Arent we all a little more grown up than this.

Now all shake hands and be friends again :roll:

 

[unkleGsif]

When folk tell me what i should/'nt be wearing....i make a point of asking them about thier toomy cooper hat and purposefully and politely ask them about it's short comings, when they agree but add they would'nt dream of wearing a chin ear gaurd helmet on thier own......i call 'em everything i can lay me tongue on...till they call it...or f**k off out of me face.

I will not get embroiled in specifics, nor indicate which side of the fence I sit (I make my own mind up and dont ram that view down other people's throats )...... but will simply pose 1 question to this argument (which I have heard many times before)

Would you rather;
wear something that offered protection to X% of head impacts, or
wear nothing at all and guaranteed a highly increased risk of head injury?

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[MikeD]

Surely the resulting outcome in between all the insults and handbags is that wearing a helmet is a personal choice, plain and simple, but if you want to go on an organised ride where wearing a helmet is the rules, then you have to wear one, be it club rules, insurance or otherwise. Simple as that.

^^ This.

Not giving konatime any more of mine, he's started frothing