Originally Posted by closetbiker

as much as I hate helmet/seat belt analogies - here goes...

if you don't wear a helmet on the stairs, but but do on the bike, it'd be like putting your seat belt on for a drive, taking it off after a block, continuing on with your drive sans-belt for many more blocks, only to put it back on for the last block.

Does that make a lot of sense?



if a parachute wasn't reliable enough to prevent hitting the ground without an injury I wasn't willing to accept, I wouldn't jump