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Should you wear a helmet while riding a recumbent?
On May 11, 5:47 pm, Dan O wrote:
On May 7, 3:21 pm, Frank Krygowski wrote: snip It might be worth asking yourself whether you did ride, or would have ridden as you do, in 1973, before helmets were widely used. What would you have done differently? Know better than to bet my life on sanity, but in any case I do not wear a helmet to facilitate added risk (to mitigate some of it, maybe). Actually, I think I am more "devil-may-care" without a helmet. Most of my rides are bareheaded, in fact, and these are largely "joy rides" on the wheeljie bike. I mean, if I believe a (good) helmet offers some worhtwhile protection, wouldn't the mere decision not to wear it imply a mindset willing to take extra risk? Generally, I only wear my helmet commuting, which, on the whole, is probably my most careful riding. But being a long commute, involves extended exposure, with required destinations and timeframes and lots of nasty traffic leaving more of my destiny at the mercy of factors outside my own control (making me still more careful... although "careful" being relative - I still get my kicks :-) |
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