If anyone should ride without a helmet it's YOU Euro. They're uncomfortable, ungainly, and most importantly won't fit in with your 'top 1000 cyclists in UK' self image. And they don't really make you safer. So by all means, leave it home.

Maybe there's hope we'll stop reading these ridiculous ego rants of yours some day : ). Although with our luck once you've suffered severe brain damage we'll be reading about how you want to be in the Special Olympics.