Originally Posted by
John C. Ratliff
If you'll look at the lower photograph, I doubt that any of the avid cyclists who feel that there's too much emphasis no helmets rides a bicycle like these. These are upright bicycles, with high handlebars, which allow someone to simply step off the bike at low speeds. I'll bet most of you ride drop handlebars, in a lower position, where if anything happens you are dropped to the ground on your head. These are types of engineering controls which help in an accident situation, just like my recumbant bike will put me on the ground on my rump rather than my head.
Are you now of the opinion that helmets are an (allegedly) useful safety device just for "avid cyclists?" Presumably "avid cyclists" are the minority of cyclists who actually ride in the drops. Should helmet proselytizers clarify their advice about helmet usefulness and refocus their strident lecturing to the minority of cyclists where
you think it might actually be useful. Can non avid cyclists (such as myself and the majority of cyclists) expect a break anytime soon from proselytization and badgering from helmet promotion aficionados?
If not, what is all the noise about avid cyclists vis-à-vis other cyclists in NL or anywhere else?