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The helmet question 15-Nov-2010 At 3:49:49 PM crm114

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Re: cars being presumed to be at fault

I ride a bike every day and have done so for 15 years or more. Though there are some very bad drivers, I don't agree with this. Before bikes are presumed to be in the right, cyclists need to start behaving like responsible road users. Moron cyclist blatantly running red lights on busy city streets etc are such a bad look for the rest of us. I cannot believe more cyclists are not killed doing this. That does not mean car drivers are justified in ignoring cyclists but it certainly gives them an excuse to think the worst.

Re: Helmets

I will add my 20c though I reckon no one is going to agree... I never used to own a helmet but, like a few others, after having a kid I do now.

TBH, I never thought that hard about it before having a kid but I may well have been able to have been convinced to wear one. To those people who talk about not wearing helmets and controlling the risk and making a decision etc, the question begs - "how can you control for the stuff you did not expect to happen..?". Even putting aside obvious stuff which may be possible to generally make a solid call on based on local knoweldge (eg loose rock), it's pretty easy to muff up in a way that you would never plan to. Catching feet, hooking rope or getting seriously dropped fall into the stuff it is hard to plan for.

Still, it is a personal thing. I did not wear a helmet for the first 6 years or more of climbing but now always do. This is even though, in those first years, I had near missed including with rocks being pulled off mid-route (at Frog's) and crashing around me and my friend getting concusion fromt he same lumps. Now, wearing a helmet seems like self-evidently logical. Go figure.

I am not about to start telling friends or strangers to wear one.