Edward Dolan
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
"DougC" <dcimper@norcom2000.com> wrote in message
news:7Odaj.89$Tt5.80@newsfe07.lga...
> ryancycles wrote:
>> My two cents worth!
>> I think it's a valid argument that head injuries are less likely on a
>> recumbent. I've never worn a helmet while riding a recumbent (or any
>> other type of bike for that matter.)
>> ....
>>
>> **** Ryan
>
> I used to wear helmets all the time too, back about 5 years ago, before I
> had any recumbents.
>
> Then I did for the first 2 or 3 years I was riding recumbents only, just
> out of habit.
>
> Then I realized that I wasn't real likely to hit my head on the
> recumbents. They can't be tipped forward from braking, and if I hit
> anything hard enough to tip a LWB over forward, I doubt a bicycle helmet
> is going to spare me much damage anyway.
>
> Also--there's no helmet I've ever found that's as comfortable as riding
> without a helmet.
>
> It's rather odd if you consider the history of it: safety bicycles were
> introduced as an answer to the problem of penny-farthings tipping over
> forward. ....And yet even today, many of the most-severe injuries people
> get on modern safety bicycles are STILL head injuries, resulting from
> tipping over forward or otherwise falling and landing on their heads.
Folks, all of the above goes to demonstrate why laws are needed mandating
safety measures. It is dangerous to let people think for themselves. More
often than not, they will come to erroneous conclusions.
Nay, let our legislators tell us what is good for us. They are smarter than
we are. After all, that is why we elected them - to give us laws to protect
us from our own ignorance.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
news:7Odaj.89$Tt5.80@newsfe07.lga...
> ryancycles wrote:
>> My two cents worth!
>> I think it's a valid argument that head injuries are less likely on a
>> recumbent. I've never worn a helmet while riding a recumbent (or any
>> other type of bike for that matter.)
>> ....
>>
>> **** Ryan
>
> I used to wear helmets all the time too, back about 5 years ago, before I
> had any recumbents.
>
> Then I did for the first 2 or 3 years I was riding recumbents only, just
> out of habit.
>
> Then I realized that I wasn't real likely to hit my head on the
> recumbents. They can't be tipped forward from braking, and if I hit
> anything hard enough to tip a LWB over forward, I doubt a bicycle helmet
> is going to spare me much damage anyway.
>
> Also--there's no helmet I've ever found that's as comfortable as riding
> without a helmet.
>
> It's rather odd if you consider the history of it: safety bicycles were
> introduced as an answer to the problem of penny-farthings tipping over
> forward. ....And yet even today, many of the most-severe injuries people
> get on modern safety bicycles are STILL head injuries, resulting from
> tipping over forward or otherwise falling and landing on their heads.
Folks, all of the above goes to demonstrate why laws are needed mandating
safety measures. It is dangerous to let people think for themselves. More
often than not, they will come to erroneous conclusions.
Nay, let our legislators tell us what is good for us. They are smarter than
we are. After all, that is why we elected them - to give us laws to protect
us from our own ignorance.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota