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Old 02-20-19, 07:53 AM
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I really like this quote, and would like to add to it:

No matter how well paved or lightly-traveled the Road, a vehicle is likely to pass you on the left as you encounter an obstacle on the right... and the only two cars you see all day, will inexplicably pass each other travelling in opposite directions at the exact moment they're passing you."
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Originally Posted by Lemond1985
I really like this quote, and would like to add to it:

No matter how well paved or lightly-traveled the Road, a vehicle is likely to pass you on the left as you encounter an obstacle on the right... and the only two cars you see all day, will inexplicably pass each other travelling in opposite directions at the exact moment they're passing you."
Jim's Law of the Road, and Lemond's Corollary. When the two intersect...
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Old 02-20-19, 08:02 AM
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I think Murphy's Law is the common factor. Pessimism = Common Sense.
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Old 02-20-19, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Lemond1985
I really like this quote, and would like to add to it:

No matter how well paved or lightly-traveled the Road, a vehicle is likely to pass you on the left as you encounter an obstacle on the right... and the only two cars you see all day, will inexplicably pass each other travelling in opposite directions at the exact moment they're passing you."
I've certainly experienced this alot with parked cars. Uncanny how the car from behind always passes you exactly when you're right beside the parked car.

And similarly when you're approaching a moving car from the opposite direction, and there's a car approaching you from behind, you always end up three-in-a-row.
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Old 02-20-19, 08:32 AM
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Yep. people in cars just can't resist the urge to speed up and try to crowd you out at the last second, though admittedly it's probably more complicated than just that.
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Old 02-20-19, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Lemond1985
I really like this quote, and would like to add to it:

No matter how well paved or lightly-traveled the Road, a vehicle is likely to pass you on the left as you encounter an obstacle on the right... and the only two cars you see all day, will inexplicably pass each other travelling in opposite directions at the exact moment they're passing you."
That type of stuff happens to me constantly. The same scenario play's out when driving the car with anything on the shoulder ahead.
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Old 02-20-19, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by parkbrav
Well as to the argument about not being advisable because they are in-efficacious, would the champions of this argument ever consider cycling without a helmet in the winter on the snow and ice? Or down a steep mountaintop in China on a dirt road and you didn't speak the local dialect?
Helmet in the first case. No helmet in the second case. Would rather die quick then slowly die trying to communicate my needs for medical attention lol.
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Practice your pigeon English. Always works in the movies.
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Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
The heck with helmets, everybody should have a rearview mirror.
I used to attach a helmet to my rear view mirror because it holds it in place pretty well. But if felt too dangerous not having a mirror when I'm not bombing down a rocky path in a foreign nation and don't need the helmet, so I keep them separate now.
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Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
The heck with helmets, everybody should have a rearview mirror.
Originally Posted by wphamilton
I used to attach a helmet to my rear view mirror because it holds it in place pretty well.

But if felt too dangerous not having a mirror when I'm not bombing down a rocky path in a foreign nation and don't need the helmet, so I keep them separate now.
And that's the way, the only way, it should be.

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Old 02-20-19, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Maelochs
Fact is, the two camps seem to be "I want to wear a helmet, therefore everyone should be forced to," and "I choose to continue to ride without every conceivable bit of safety gear, and since I am still riding more than five decades after I started, I'd have to say the evidence of my existence proves that wrist, elbow, hip, shoulder, and head pads are Not necessary to cyclists' survival."
Personally I prefer the safety bicycle over the penny farthing, but that's about it.
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Originally Posted by 86az135i
Helmet in the first case. No helmet in the second case. Would rather die quick then slowly die trying to communicate my needs for medical attention lol.
Well, to back up a step or two, I am "guilty" of winter cycling - with a helmet. The mad bomber is an actual friend of mine, it is not something I have personally contemplated doing, with or without a helmet. But the friend did it WITHOUT a helmet, because he thought "it didn't look cool" and because "the statistics backed him up." And the result was a blackout concussion.

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The falls have taken winter cycling none has hit my head or helmet. Shaken but no contact.

So the logic goes, as implied in many other threads, if riding X number of years and y has never occurred, then y will never occur.
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Helmet choices?

I do both.

Depends on which bike I'm riding.

Casual ride on the grocery getter or folding bike, not going to be bothered wearing a helmet.

Hard riding with intervals and fast riding usually comes with an increased risk of crashing, and have done so a few times.

I have face planted into the pavement at 30km/h and walked away, my helmet was useless at preventing injury, a full face helmet might have helped with the road rash, and busted teeth.
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Originally Posted by Daniel4
The falls have taken winter cycling none has hit my head or helmet. Shaken but no contact.

So the logic goes, as implied in many other threads, if riding X number of years and y has never occurred, then y will never occur.
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Originally Posted by badger1
**** (or, ibtm to 'helmet thread 2').
+1.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
+1.
-1.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
+1.
Originally Posted by avole
-1.
Do the math; threads initiated by helmet proselytizers always end up (if not starting with) a Big Fat Zero!
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Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
Do the math; threads initiated by helmet proselytizers always end up (if not starting with) a Big Fat Zero!
Uh...The point of my +1 was that I agree that the thread will either be locked or merged with the Helmet Thread 2. And not to ring my own bell, I correctly called it with the recent one that was merged.
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There's already a helmet thread, stickied above. 1 is enough.

The Helmet Thread 2

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