The only time I got hit by a car was walking across the street, legally. Girl made a left and rolled me over the hood hard onto the ground. I didnt get up and blame myself for not wearing a helmet and/or other safety gear or for having the audacity to walk across the street, which clearly is just for cars...
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:03 PM, David Yu Greenblatt < david.yu.greenbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 07:53 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote: >> >> >> > One doesn't spend much time worrying about head protection while >> > walking. >> >> Falls while walking seldom involve a head injury. >> >> > > I think Steve makes a good point here. It would be silly to wear a helmet > while walking or running because something very odd would have to happen > for a healthy alert person to sustain a head injury while engaging in those > activities. But it seems to me that spirited bicycle riding in the > conventional position which involves bending at the waist and leaning > forward with the head leading the center of gravity does make non-trivial > head impact more likely in a crash. > > Like Steve and others, I have had a good number of head-ringing and > helmet-destroying crashes over the years. Some of these crashes involved > risky activities like Cat 3 bike racing but others happened while "just > riding along" solo. Due to these experiences, and because I enjoy riding my > bikes fast, I almost always wear a helmet. But I do agree that riding a > bike in a mellow way -- e.g., pedaling to the local coffee shop -- is a > pretty safe activity that does not mandate wearing a helmet. > > Another thought -- perhaps riding a Dutch-style city bike bolt upright > lessens the risk of going over the handlebars and landing on one's head? If > so, that is another reason why I should get a Bullmoose Bosco bar to > further differentiate my city bike from my rando and racing-style go-fast > bikes. I kind of like the idea of a designated bike for mellow helmetless > riding. > > - David G in SF > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
