View Poll Results: Helmet wearing habits?
I've never worn a bike helmet
178
10.66%
I used to wear a helmet, but have stopped
94
5.63%
I've always worn a helmet
648
38.80%
I didn't wear a helmet, but now do
408
24.43%
I sometimes wear a helmet depending on the conditions
342
20.48%
Voters: 1670. You may not vote on this poll
The helmet thread
#7351
cowboy, steel horse, etc
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: The hot spot.
Posts: 44,842
Bikes: everywhere
Mentioned: 71 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 12771 Post(s)
Liked 7,689 Times
in
4,081 Posts
Yeah, I tried Brooks-style saddle (an Ideale, the French Brooks) for a couple of years. Carrying around plastic bags, massaging it with exotic oils and waxes, cleaning the mold and mildew off of it, towards the end of life tightening that nut...
I'm just glad the Charge Spoon works for me and they're only $28.
SDG Belair is another one of my favorites, for a little more money usually.
I'm just glad the Charge Spoon works for me and they're only $28.
SDG Belair is another one of my favorites, for a little more money usually.
#7353
Friendship is Magic
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 22,984
Bikes: old ones
Mentioned: 304 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 26419 Post(s)
Liked 10,380 Times
in
7,208 Posts
I rode when I was young but I'm now 50. I need a seat & helmet recommendation.
If I ride more than 5 miles, my nuts get numb. I hear seats these days accomodate men's genitals. I understand I have to wear bicycle shorts. Anyone have a seat they like?
Regarding helmets, I need a helmet that will either prevent sweat from getting into my eyes or keep clear of my forehead so the wind will allow my sweat to dry before the sweat gets into my eyes.
Seat & helmet recommendations need to have a make & model so I can do a search or have a link provided.
Thanks.
If I ride more than 5 miles, my nuts get numb. I hear seats these days accomodate men's genitals. I understand I have to wear bicycle shorts. Anyone have a seat they like?
Regarding helmets, I need a helmet that will either prevent sweat from getting into my eyes or keep clear of my forehead so the wind will allow my sweat to dry before the sweat gets into my eyes.
Seat & helmet recommendations need to have a make & model so I can do a search or have a link provided.
Thanks.
It has one of those cutout things in the taint area that relieves pressure on your scranus.
...Helment that I use is a Bell Variant, but any of the Bell helments with the three point
suspension system inside (similar to a hard hat, with a rear adjustment wheel) ought to do.
Buy extra helment pad liners, so you can rinse or wash them and let them dry while you rotate them.
__________________
#7354
Friendship is Magic
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 22,984
Bikes: old ones
Mentioned: 304 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 26419 Post(s)
Liked 10,380 Times
in
7,208 Posts
it didn't take me long to realize that i preferred a consistent, repeatable performance result to the prior generation of decent all leather saddles.
__________________
#7355
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Beaverton, Oregon
Posts: 1,914
Bikes: Rans Stratus, Trek 1420, Rivendell Rambouillet
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
You can get closer then hit and miss when it comes to saddles by measuring your sit bones distance, some bike shops have a special pad you can do that on, or you can do it yourself by setting on a block of styrofoam or a corrugated cardboard etc.
John C Ratliff; the comment you made about a Brooks B17 taking a year to break in is only true if you only ride less than 800 miles a year. The average break in time for one of those saddles is between 500 to 800 miles, on rare occasion I have heard of 300 miles but I think those people over used the Proofide which will shorten the life of the saddle. When I broke mine in I used no Proofide and it took about 800 miles, After it broke in I started to use the Proofide about once every 6 months. Brooks saddles by the way should never be treated with oil or water for breaking in, it will ruin the saddle in short order especially the heavier the rider is.
John C Ratliff; the comment you made about a Brooks B17 taking a year to break in is only true if you only ride less than 800 miles a year. The average break in time for one of those saddles is between 500 to 800 miles, on rare occasion I have heard of 300 miles but I think those people over used the Proofide which will shorten the life of the saddle. When I broke mine in I used no Proofide and it took about 800 miles, After it broke in I started to use the Proofide about once every 6 months. Brooks saddles by the way should never be treated with oil or water for breaking in, it will ruin the saddle in short order especially the heavier the rider is.
I ride on three bicycles, my Rivendell Rambouillet, a Trek 1420 and my Rans Stratus recumbent. It is the Rambouillet which has the Brooks saddle on it, and because I share my ride time mostly between the two (Rambouillet and Startus), it took a year.
I used a baseball cap under my Nutcase helmet today, and had a great and comfortable ride too. The Nutcase helmet (a hard shell helmet) has an small open spot on top for the foam liner so the button doesn't press down on my head.
John
Last edited by John C. Ratliff; 04-03-14 at 03:08 PM.
#7356
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NE Indiana
Posts: 8,687
Bikes: 2020 Masi Giramondo 700c; 2013 Lynskey Peloton; 1992 Giant Rincon; 1989 Dawes needs parts; 1985 Trek 660; 1985 Fuji Club; 1984 Schwinn Voyager; 1984 Miyata 612; 1977 Raleigh Competition GS
Mentioned: 10 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1126 Post(s)
Liked 253 Times
in
204 Posts
rekmeyata,
I ride on three bicycles, my Rivendell Rambouillet, a Trek 1420 and my Rans Stratus recumbent. It is the Rambouillet which has the Brooks saddle on it, and because I share my ride time mostly between the two (Rambouillet and Startus), it took a year.
I used a baseball cap under my Nutcase helmet today, and had a great and comfortable ride too. The Nutcase helmet (a hard shell helmet) has an small open spot on top for the foam liner so the button doesn't press down on my head.
John
I ride on three bicycles, my Rivendell Rambouillet, a Trek 1420 and my Rans Stratus recumbent. It is the Rambouillet which has the Brooks saddle on it, and because I share my ride time mostly between the two (Rambouillet and Startus), it took a year.
I used a baseball cap under my Nutcase helmet today, and had a great and comfortable ride too. The Nutcase helmet (a hard shell helmet) has an small open spot on top for the foam liner so the button doesn't press down on my head.
John
#7357
Friendship is Magic
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 22,984
Bikes: old ones
Mentioned: 304 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 26419 Post(s)
Liked 10,380 Times
in
7,208 Posts
I seriously doubt if the couple of Brooks naysayers actually ever owned one. Ancient times? Funny there are pro riders using leather saddles on their training rides to this day. Messaging it with exotic oils and waxes? that was your problem you used oil. After the first 1,000 miles it was less comfortable? Because you didn't follow the directions and tighten the spanner after break in. There is a reason why there are more Brooks saddles on touring bikes than any other saddle; of course a person does have to pick the right Brooks saddle for the specific type of bicycle they're going to put it on, and of course there is no such thing as one perfect saddle for all people that's why there are other types of saddles that people who tour use because what works for one person may not work for another.
For what they are, they are both overpriced and overhyped. The fact that there are some guys who have
Brooks saddles that they like notwithstanding, this appears to be your argument approach to everything. #gmafb
__________________
#7358
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 6,401
Mentioned: 2 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 13 Times
in
13 Posts
The trouble with the Brooks-O-philes is that they have found the right saddle for them and assume that it must therefore be the right saddle for everyone else. I personally have always wanted to be a Brooks-O-phile but spent decades trying them without success. Eventually I determined that in order to make them work for me, my handlebars simply have to be higher than the saddle. It took a neck injury for me to discover that.
I now use Brooks on every bike with the bars higher than the saddle, which is most of them. I guess I'm still not a true Brooks-O-phile, though, because I am successfully resisting the urge to run around telling everyone that the only way a Brooks saddle can be comfortable is if you position it lower than the handlebars.
Oh, and a PS: I have definitely noticed that Brooks quality control has slipped over the decades. What used to be a very consistent product is now hit-and-miss. I think that explains, at least partly, why results are so mixed these days. A new buyer may well be advised to choose from the "select" line, which are apparently made the way they were decades ago, as opposed to the willy-nilly leather selection currently in use for their regular line.
I now use Brooks on every bike with the bars higher than the saddle, which is most of them. I guess I'm still not a true Brooks-O-phile, though, because I am successfully resisting the urge to run around telling everyone that the only way a Brooks saddle can be comfortable is if you position it lower than the handlebars.
Oh, and a PS: I have definitely noticed that Brooks quality control has slipped over the decades. What used to be a very consistent product is now hit-and-miss. I think that explains, at least partly, why results are so mixed these days. A new buyer may well be advised to choose from the "select" line, which are apparently made the way they were decades ago, as opposed to the willy-nilly leather selection currently in use for their regular line.
#7359
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Lincoln Ne
Posts: 9,924
Bikes: RANS Stratus TerraTrike Tour II
Mentioned: 46 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3352 Post(s)
Liked 1,056 Times
in
635 Posts
Since this thread has be hi-jacked to Brooks saddles, I have been pondering this. I have come to the conclusion that setting on Brooks saddles or any other DF saddle has squeezed the anti helmet posters brains into a false sense of security about not wearing a helmet. They should ride a recumbent for a while and let blood back into their brains, then they would see the light about wearing a helmet.
#7360
Senior Member
Since this thread has be hi-jacked to Brooks saddles, I have been pondering this. I have come to the conclusion that setting on Brooks saddles or any other DF saddle has squeezed the anti helmet posters brains into a false sense of security about not wearing a helmet. They should ride a recumbent for a while and let blood back into their brains, then they would see the light about wearing a helmet.
#7361
Cycle Dallas
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Land of Gar, TX
Posts: 3,777
Bikes: Dulcinea--2017 Kona Rove & a few others
Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 197 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 10 Times
in
5 Posts
MHLs are not the subject of this thread, but I'll share this good news here.
If I start this in its own thread, it will likely get swept up and dumped in here, anyway.
It appears that we might finally make some headway on getting rid of Dallas' all-age helmet law.
Dallas Now Has a Bike Task Force, and It's Hellbent on Killing the Helmet Law
If I start this in its own thread, it will likely get swept up and dumped in here, anyway.
It appears that we might finally make some headway on getting rid of Dallas' all-age helmet law.
Dallas Now Has a Bike Task Force, and It's Hellbent on Killing the Helmet Law
#7362
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Bay Area, Calif.
Posts: 7,239
Mentioned: 13 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 659 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 7 Times
in
6 Posts
MHLs are not the subject of this thread, but I'll share this good news here.
If I start this in its own thread, it will likely get swept up and dumped in here, anyway.
It appears that we might finally make some headway on getting rid of Dallas' all-age helmet law.
Dallas Now Has a Bike Task Force, and It's Hellbent on Killing the Helmet Law
If I start this in its own thread, it will likely get swept up and dumped in here, anyway.
It appears that we might finally make some headway on getting rid of Dallas' all-age helmet law.
Dallas Now Has a Bike Task Force, and It's Hellbent on Killing the Helmet Law
#7363
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Lincoln Ne
Posts: 9,924
Bikes: RANS Stratus TerraTrike Tour II
Mentioned: 46 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3352 Post(s)
Liked 1,056 Times
in
635 Posts
mcon
Does it bother you that "clown" bikes as you call them hold all of the cycling speed records? BTW I bet the riders of thse record setting bikes were wearing a helmet during their rides.
BTW I like to slow down and ride with DF riders during thunder storms. Perched way up in the air they make good lightening rods. They make us modern bike riders safe.
Does it bother you that "clown" bikes as you call them hold all of the cycling speed records? BTW I bet the riders of thse record setting bikes were wearing a helmet during their rides.
BTW I like to slow down and ride with DF riders during thunder storms. Perched way up in the air they make good lightening rods. They make us modern bike riders safe.
#7364
Arizona Dessert
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: AZ
Posts: 15,030
Bikes: Cannondale SuperSix, Lemond Poprad. Retired: Jamis Sputnik, Centurion LeMans Fixed, Diamond Back ascent ex
Mentioned: 76 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 5345 Post(s)
Liked 2,169 Times
in
1,288 Posts
mcon
Does it bother you that "clown" bikes as you call them hold all of the cycling speed records? BTW I bet the riders of thse record setting bikes were wearing a helmet during their rides.
BTW I like to slow down and ride with DF riders during thunder storms. Perched way up in the air they make good lightening rods. They make us modern bike riders safe.
Does it bother you that "clown" bikes as you call them hold all of the cycling speed records? BTW I bet the riders of thse record setting bikes were wearing a helmet during their rides.
BTW I like to slow down and ride with DF riders during thunder storms. Perched way up in the air they make good lightening rods. They make us modern bike riders safe.
#7365
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NE Indiana
Posts: 8,687
Bikes: 2020 Masi Giramondo 700c; 2013 Lynskey Peloton; 1992 Giant Rincon; 1989 Dawes needs parts; 1985 Trek 660; 1985 Fuji Club; 1984 Schwinn Voyager; 1984 Miyata 612; 1977 Raleigh Competition GS
Mentioned: 10 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1126 Post(s)
Liked 253 Times
in
204 Posts
this appears to be your argument approach to everything. #gmafb
#7366
Friendship is Magic
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 22,984
Bikes: old ones
Mentioned: 304 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 26419 Post(s)
Liked 10,380 Times
in
7,208 Posts
__________________
#7367
Senior Member
mcon
Does it bother you that "clown" bikes as you call them hold all of the cycling speed records? BTW I bet the riders of thse record setting bikes were wearing a helmet during their rides.
BTW I like to slow down and ride with DF riders during thunder storms. Perched way up in the air they make good lightening rods. They make us modern bike riders safe.
Does it bother you that "clown" bikes as you call them hold all of the cycling speed records? BTW I bet the riders of thse record setting bikes were wearing a helmet during their rides.
BTW I like to slow down and ride with DF riders during thunder storms. Perched way up in the air they make good lightening rods. They make us modern bike riders safe.
#7369
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 7
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I've never worn a bike helmet .....
#7370
Friendship is Magic
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 22,984
Bikes: old ones
Mentioned: 304 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 26419 Post(s)
Liked 10,380 Times
in
7,208 Posts
...can you say kerfluffle here ? I thought it was censored ?
__________________
#7371
cowboy, steel horse, etc
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: The hot spot.
Posts: 44,842
Bikes: everywhere
Mentioned: 71 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 12771 Post(s)
Liked 7,689 Times
in
4,081 Posts
Since this thread has be hi-jacked to Brooks saddles, I have been pondering this. I have come to the conclusion that setting on Brooks saddles or any other DF saddle has squeezed the anti helmet posters brains into a false sense of security about not wearing a helmet. They should ride a recumbent for a while and let blood back into their brains, then they would see the light about wearing a helmet.
#7372
Senior Member
mcon
Does it bother you that "clown" bikes as you call them hold all of the cycling speed records? BTW I bet the riders of thse record setting bikes were wearing a helmet during their rides.
BTW I like to slow down and ride with DF riders during thunder storms. Perched way up in the air they make good lightening rods. They make us modern bike riders safe.
Does it bother you that "clown" bikes as you call them hold all of the cycling speed records? BTW I bet the riders of thse record setting bikes were wearing a helmet during their rides.
BTW I like to slow down and ride with DF riders during thunder storms. Perched way up in the air they make good lightening rods. They make us modern bike riders safe.
What about climbing?
#7373
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Lincoln Ne
Posts: 9,924
Bikes: RANS Stratus TerraTrike Tour II
Mentioned: 46 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3352 Post(s)
Liked 1,056 Times
in
635 Posts
Lester
Leather, leather, you are going to have the peta types jumping out of the bushes and jamming sticks in your spokes. Actually nice flexable nylon straps provide a very comfortable ride.
The ave cyclist should leap a whole century and ride a bent. Why be stuck riding an antique bike invented the the 1880s? Trains dont have firemen shoveling coal, and we no longer have kerosene lamps. Ride a modern bent, suffer no pain, and of course wear a helmet.
Leather, leather, you are going to have the peta types jumping out of the bushes and jamming sticks in your spokes. Actually nice flexable nylon straps provide a very comfortable ride.
The ave cyclist should leap a whole century and ride a bent. Why be stuck riding an antique bike invented the the 1880s? Trains dont have firemen shoveling coal, and we no longer have kerosene lamps. Ride a modern bent, suffer no pain, and of course wear a helmet.
#7374
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 18
Bikes: blue birdy, 26"wheel british eagle touring bike, 20" humber, 26"/20" butchers bike, prophete mens city bike, marinoni 80s race bike, dragster, strider, raleigh 16, front half of mtb tandem.
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
In Australia helmet wearing is COMPULSORY, no choice, you have to wear a helmet No matter Where you ride, On a designated bicycle path, or on a beach, or riding on a playing field (when not is use obviously) but You Have NO CHOICE!
I personally sweat severely under my helmet and last week almost Crashed because a river of sweat flowed first into my left eye and then my right as I was riding quickly across a road in quite heavy traffic where the cycleway crosses a major road!Last year I did crash from my helmet as My doctor changed my bloodpressure medication that had a side effect of making users Lose balance if their head got overheated! overbalanced into a chain wire fence!
I personally sweat severely under my helmet and last week almost Crashed because a river of sweat flowed first into my left eye and then my right as I was riding quickly across a road in quite heavy traffic where the cycleway crosses a major road!Last year I did crash from my helmet as My doctor changed my bloodpressure medication that had a side effect of making users Lose balance if their head got overheated! overbalanced into a chain wire fence!
#7375
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: MN.
Posts: 239
Bikes: A MTB and something else with 2 pedals.
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Never have and probably never will. They are hot, uncomfortable and just plain dorky looking. Just another PIA that I don't need. Never been one to run with the "conformity" flock.
P.S. The same goes for Spandex too !!!
P.S. The same goes for Spandex too !!!