Wear your helmet...??

[Tazio]

I sometimes think that some people basically dislike anyone who isn't them.

 

[flibble]

You feel me now?

Actually no I don't. I think you've deliberately decided to miss the point and turned a discussion into something more akin to an vendetta against cyclists who wear helmets.

I grant you that there are people who wear helmets who behave in the way that you describe, but there are people who don't wear helmets who behave in the same way.

It's like saying all BMW drivers are idiots or all rover driver drive like it's Sunday afternoon. It's a gross generalisation.

For what it's worth, I wear a helmet to cycle. I commute 26 miles each way to work (though not every day). I cycle down busy roads and a helmet is part of my cycling apparel as much as the gloves that I wear.
I wear the same helmet and gloves when I cycle off road too. Both types of cycling are totally different, but I'm the same cyclist under all of that. I don't cut people up, I don't jump red lights. In short, I really don't think I have a chip on my shoulder. I take people for what they are. If you don't want to wear a helmet, that's fine, but please don't make unfounded gross generalisations about people who do.

 

[Raging_Bulls]

I sometimes think that some people basically dislike anyone who isn't them.

Nah, I pity them

 

[Neil]

You feel me now?

Actually no I don't. I think you've deliberately decided to miss the point and turned a discussion into something more akin to an vendetta against cyclists who wear helmets.

I grant you that there are people who wear helmets who behave in the way that you describe, but there are people who don't wear helmets who behave in the same way.

It's like saying all BMW drivers are idiots or all rover driver drive like it's Sunday afternoon. It's a gross generalisation.

I was with you, right up 'til there.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

To y’all who disagree, please go ahead and picture this: you’re coming back home into town, winding down after a nice 3 – 5 hours ride in the countryside. All of a sudden you’re hit by a tidal rush hour wave of helmet wearing contre-la-montering leprechauns going at a speed of light the other way, out of town back to their goddamned suburbia. Showing no respect at all for anyone coming in their way. Racing each other in their imaginary ITT to god knows what purpose. These people ALL wear helmets. These people are ALL commuters. And almost all of them ride like a-holes. This is what I’m on about. Nothing else. Period. You feel me now?

WHERE??

I'd love to see this mass migration of transitory two-wheeled, helmet bedecked commuters - in fact I think Richard Attenborough would probably be intrigued enough to devote a whole series to this hitherto unheard of phenomenon...

 

[Neil]

To y’all who disagree, please go ahead and picture this: you’re coming back home into town, winding down after a nice 3 – 5 hours ride in the countryside. All of a sudden you’re hit by a tidal rush hour wave of helmet wearing contre-la-montering leprechauns going at a speed of light the other way, out of town back to their goddamned suburbia. Showing no respect at all for anyone coming in their way. Racing each other in their imaginary ITT to god knows what purpose. These people ALL wear helmets. These people are ALL commuters. And almost all of them ride like a-holes. This is what I’m on about. Nothing else. Period. You feel me now?

WHERE??

I'd love to see this mass migration of transitory two-wheeled, helmet bedecked commuters - in fact I think Richard Attenborough would probably be intrigued enough to devote a whole series to this hitherto unheard of phenomenon...

Jurassic Park! (said in an Alan Partridge-esque manner).

David Attenborough may be vaguely interested too...

 

[26er]

If you wear a helmet too they might mistake you for one of them and be nice to you.
Or you could just be paraniod.

Interesting suggestion, thank you very much... I thought though that actually wearing a helmet in the first place was a sign of a slight case of paranoia, worrying yourself up to a level where you cannot resist the urge to protect yourself from imaginary objects that may or may not hit you in the head.

 

[jonnugget69]

The anti helmet brigade are laughable - if you read this thread, and I have, their argument basically boils down to:

1. Nothing has hurt my head yet.

2. It makes you ride like a nob.

3. It makes you look like a pussy.

This is natural selection at work....!

 

[NAILTRAIL96]

Thats not all, I remember an earlier post saying wearing a helmet ruined concentration to such an extent an accident was enevitable

 

[We_are_Stevo]

If you wear a helmet too they might mistake you for one of them and be nice to you.
Or you could just be paraniod.

Interesting suggestion, thank you very much... I thought though that actually wearing a helmet in the first place was a sign of a slight case of paranoia, worrying yourself up to a level where you cannot resist the urge to protect yourself from imaginary objects that may or may not hit you in the head.

...like a homeward bound commuter who has the temerity to clad himself in a cycle helmet and impede our erstwhile hero in his epic quest to reinsert himself into the society he craves to quit, only to find he misses his Mummy and his nightly mug of Horlicks so has to consume inordinate amounts of barely edible humble pie and try to sneak in the back door before Holby City finishes and she notices he's not in his room again... :roll: