Compulsary bike helmets?

[Underscore Pt2]

What about the behaviours of others on the road?

as i said you get people who mount pavements and run people over. You get people who cross the road in front of a car.... Why do drivers not wear helmets?

[DaveB]

as i said you get people who mount pavements and run people over. You get people who cross the road in front of a car.... Why do drivers not wear helmets?

Because drivers are in a 2 ton steel box with strict safety standards and features designed to protect the them like air bags, crumple zones and side impact bars.

Helmets are pretty much the only physical protection a cyclist has. Otherwise the best way a cyclist can protect themselves is to ride defensively and ride safely. That means not jumping Red Lights, not going up the inside when other vehicles may be turning left, looking over your shoulder and indicating before you pull out, riding out in the lane when you need to, not hugging the kerb regardless and knowing when discretion is the better part of valour and you need to get out of the way regardless of who is "in the right".

Unfortunately a good number of them don't do these things. The rest of us call them idiots and give a little cheer when we see them get pulled over by the police for being a twat.*





* It does happen, believe it or not, and is getting more frequent in London. Now if they'd just set up shop on Camberwell New Road on a morning it would make my day.

[mudskipper]

There was a trial done measuring how much space cars gave a cyclist with and without safety equipment. I'll see if I can find it.

I go through phases. My invincibility cloak is currently faulty so am wearing a lid. Although it is horrible in the hot weather. Did fall off once and land on my bonce splitting my helmet in two which was a bit scary.

[Dallas]

* It does happen, believe it or not, and is getting more frequent in London. Now if they'd just set up shop on Camberwell New Road on a morning it would make my day.

Aldgate, Cable street and Bishopsgate too!

Shoot them all - except me, I am a good one, I give you a bit of leg and a smile and you give me a bit of space - everyones a winner

[mudskipper]

BBC NEWS | England | Somerset | Wearing helmets 'more dangerous'

Sounds like a wig would be better protection than a helmet.

http://www.drianwalker.com/overtaking/

[d000hg]

as i said you get people who mount pavements and run people over.

Cars mount pavements and run people over very very rarely. Cars pull out of junctions without looking far more often - think how many times cars crash into each other.

Are you sure you never got hit on the head, because you don't seem very smart. Perhaps you have amnesia.

[Underscore Pt2]

Cars mount pavements and run people over very very rarely. Cars pull out of junctions without looking far more often - think how many times cars crash into each other.

Are you sure you never got hit on the head, because you don't seem very smart. Perhaps you have amnesia.

Smart enough never to have been close to an accident on my bike. I did have a cyclist crash in to my car whilst he was on the phone! Luckily he had his helmet on! My view will always be that Helmets turn a lot of cyclists into arseholes that think they can take on cars coz they have a bit of head protection.

[mudskipper]

Perhaps you have amnesia.

What's amnesia? I've forgotten.

[Ticktock]

Smart enough never to have been close to an accident on my bike. I did have a cyclist crash in to my car whilst he was on the phone! Luckily he had his helmet on! My view will always be that Helmets turn a lot of cyclists into arseholes that think they can take on cars coz they have a bit of head protection.

So, again, you are of the opinion that if you put a helmet on you'll suddenly become even more of an arsehole? You don't think you'll carry on behaving just like you do currently - snapping closed that chin strap will instantly transform you? And that's why you won't wear one?

[d000hg]

My view will always be that Helmets turn a lot of cyclists into arseholes that think they can take on cars coz they have a bit of head protection.

In that case, your views are stupid.

Whether you should be forced to wear a helmet, I don't know. Defending your right to be an arse Vs defending other people from the horror when they kill you due to lack of helmet!