Yes, cyclists don't wear helmets in Europe and Asia...and they ride much more than we do. Studies have repeatedly shown that helmet laws and even volunteer "wear a helmet" campaigns REDUCE ridership. Reduced ridership makes the remaining cyclists less safe. It is well established that increased ridership makes biking safer for all cyclists, helmeted or not. I usually wear a helmet, but we (the cycling community) need to stop demonizing cyclists who don't wear helmets. The "Helmet Wars" make all cyclists less safe by decreasing ridership and by making bicycling look much more dangerous than it really is.
The helmet police need to back off for their own safety and the safety of everyone else. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but really! The next time I hear someone berating a cycling publication for a picture of a helmet-less rider I'm going to puke! OMG! You let your kid walk to school without a helmet? Bad Parent! You drive your kid to school in your car without helmets for everybody! Are you crazy! Doug On Monday, May 19, 2014 4:08:23 PM UTC-7, Michael wrote: > > I am curious as to why helmeted horse riding didn't come about until the >> 1900's(?), when there were thousands of previous years of un-helmeted horse >> riding, except for armour-ed combat on horseback. > > > So, in modern society, I wonder why we are so safety conscious about > helmets in cycling when we have so many aeons of non-helmeted horse riding > and no one seemed to worry about it back then. > And I also wonder why it seems (correct me if wrong) the USA seems so > obsessed with it when Europe and Asia are not. And they do much more riding > than us. And much more close-quarters with traffic than us. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
