Folding Bikes - Around the World with our Dahon Folding bikes

I posted this on Dahon's own Website too. Here it is right here:

http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/around-the-world-with-our-dahon-folding-bikes/11107330/ (http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/around-the-world-with-our-dahon-folding-bikes/11107330/)

Nice scenery in the video. I still don't understand why nobody is wearing helmets. Some of them are riding on some rough and unpredictable terrain. If they want to show casual riding, then show helmet-less riding with the boardwalk bike, not the hi-end performance bikes.

Nice scenery in the video. I still don't understand why nobody is wearing helmets. Some of them are riding on some rough and unpredictable terrain. If they want to show casual riding, then show helmet-less riding with the boardwalk bike, not the hi-end performance bikes.

My own impression-which might be inaccurate-is that most people in countries other than North American ones ride helmet-less generally. Unless they are bike professionals (people who make their living at cycling like racers or messengers) the average rider usually don't bother with one. Until the 1980s and later, we did not bother with them either.

Nice scenery in the video. I still don't understand why nobody is wearing helmets. Some of them are riding on some rough and unpredictable terrain. If they want to show casual riding, then show helmet-less riding with the boardwalk bike, not the hi-end performance bikes.

+1

I have to agree, this is really stupid. Maybe people think that riding on smaller bikes is less dangerous.

NO - Please!!
do we really need this :fight: chewed up discussion here in the folding bike subforum again? veggie_lover, I realise this is not the first time, you try to start a helmet discussion here. This discussion is not folder specific or is it? I suspect that in the appropriate safety sub-forum every argument was made more than a dozen times. I find that really annoying. It gets so quickly so badly tempered and otherwise nice people like Tommy C are tempted to write words like "stupid". Why not live and let live (or let die, if you happen to think so).

NO - Please!!
do we really need this :fight: chewed up discussion here in the folding bike subforum again? veggie_lover, I realise this is not the first time, you try to start a helmet discussion here. This discussion is not folder specific or is it? I suspect that in the appropriate safety sub-forum every argument was made more than a dozen times. I find that really annoying. It gets so quickly so badly tempered and otherwise nice people like Tommy C are tempted to write words like "stupid". Why not live and let live (or let die, if you happen to think so).

Sorry about that, it was really out of topic.... I was thinking about it because I just heard a horrible story the other day, someone I know was wearing a helmet while riding his bike, the helmet did save his life and it was scary to see the helmet after the crash.
Anyhow, I didn't plan to start a :fight: .

TC

There is more video of that girl riding in the Pyrennese. Absolutely wonderful scenery. I have walked there a fair bit, but never ridden a bike there. Very well worth watching.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f4GCJ-nyA-g&eurl=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?rlz=1C1GGLS_enGB291&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=puerto%20de%20Izpegi&um=1

As for helmets - they will only save you in a minor fall. I think they encourage more risk taking and very rarely wear one. I certainly ride more cautiously without a helmet on.

As for helmets - they will only save you in a minor fall. I think they encourage more risk taking and very rarely wear one. I certainly ride more cautiously without a helmet on.

I agree. And I find it interesting that in many American states it is the law to wear a helmet on a bicycle, but not on a motorcycle. Probably not in the same states.

As for helmets - they will only save you in a minor fall.

The last shots in Spain was technical and an accident at the speed they were traveling would not have been a minor fall. A crash a 5 miles per hour can be serious! You really can't tell what kind of crash will be minor until after the fact.

On a separate note, I don't think the Dahon folder was made for single track.

As for helmets - they will only save you in a minor fall.

Need to chime in here -- in case somebody might believe this and decide to not wear a helmet.

A friend of mine was cycling and got hit by a car a couple of months ago. He was riding over 20mph straight through an intersection. The driver of the car was facing him, turned left in the intersection at maybe 5mph, and struck him at 45 degrees: the classic, fairly high speed, left turn cycling crash. He went over the hood of the car, struck and caved in part of the windshield, then bounced over the hood and landed on the pavement.

He was unconscious for maybe a minute and sustained abrasions, a broken ankle, and a cracked vertebra (technically, a broken neck). He had to a wear a neck brace for a while, but luckily, apparently suffered no permanent damage. His aluminum frame bike was snapped cleanly in half.

The length of his helmet had a crack from front to back -- and likely saved his life, if not preventing a more serious broken neck and possible paralysis.

***Back to your regularly scheduled Dahon discussion.

NO - Please!!
do we really need this chewed up discussion here in the folding bike subforum again? veggie_lover, I realise this is not the first time, you try to start a helmet discussion here. This discussion is not folder specific or is it? I suspect that in the appropriate safety sub-forum every argument was made more than a dozen times. I find that really annoying. It gets so quickly so badly tempered and otherwise nice people like Tommy C are tempted to write words like "stupid". Why not live and let live (or let die, if you happen to think so).

+1

Odd riding position in a lot of that: hands really outstretched and wrists bent backwards.

+1 Let's rid ourselves of this silly helmet fixation. Make it free choice so everyone can pipe down already.

Nice videos. Thanks for posting.

+1 Let's rid ourselves of this silly helmet fixation. Make it free choice so everyone can pipe down already.

Nice videos. Thanks for posting.


I am always pleased to post interesting things for the folding bike community. That was my original intent-not a helmet debate.