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AG: Safety Equipment for Bicycles
Andrew Chaplin wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote in news:mpldnc$kp7$1@dont- email.me: FWIW, I find eyeglass-mounted mirrors to be much superior to helmet mounted ones. Positional stability is better, ease of attachment is greater, and of course it works with any (or no) hat. And as a little detail, I can even use it flat-water kayaking, to make sure my wife doesn't get too far behind in her boat. I haven't yet found a satisfactory mirror, period. I face optical challenges similar to those John B. mentions. And isn't it interesting that helmets are still number one the minds of Americans in the "bike safety" category? Have you ever been complimented for obeying the rules of the road? Yes. For bicycling only when sober? No, but it hasn't come up. For properly choosing your lane position? Probably not. Actually, yes. But a funny hat intended to prevent the 0.6% of the brain injury fatalities in America that occur while cycling? Oh, gosh, that's very important. Over the past 10 years I have been struck twice by vehicles, come unstuck three times, and been thrown when a gap between two gratings grabbed my front wheel. On the one occasion that necessitated a visit to an emergency room, I was asked if I had been wearing a helmet--I had; they collect that data for epidemiology and offer no judgement. On the two occasions when my head did impact the ground, my helmet prevented injury. I feel ill-equipped when I am astride a bicycle and helmetless. YMMV. No one has yet complimented me for wearing a helmet, only for wearing a blinking light on it so I am more visible. But then, I am nearly 59 and not looking for compliments. Full disclosu I spent over 25 years in the army and got paid to wear a steel helmet, so I find this styrofoam headgear they flog to us cyclists is not much of an imposition. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) I was stopped at a light in downtown Northampton, MA one winter day on my return commute from Amherst and a lady on the corner congratulated me for riding the bike in the winter. She said she was very impressed with people who forsook their motorized transport in winter to pedal a bicycle. However...she then asked me why I was not wearing a bicycle helmet; only a winter knit cap and thought someone as socially responsible as I obviously was, would not value their head more. Fortunately, before I could have a bicycle-pedestrian debate on the merits of the bicycle helmet, the light turned green and any chance of controversy had vanished. SMH |
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