View Poll Results: What Are Your Helmet Wearing Habits?
I've never worn a bike helmet
52
10.40%
I used to wear a helmet, but have stopped
24
4.80%
I've always worn a helmet
208
41.60%
I didn't wear a helmet, but now do
126
25.20%
I sometimes wear a helmet depending on the conditions
90
18.00%
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The Helmet Thread 2
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wielrenner
wielrenner
Dutch
Etymology
From wiel + rennen + -er.
Noun
wielrenner m (plural wielrenners, diminutive wielrennertje n, feminine wielrenster):
a sports or fitness cyclist, someone who races bicycles, as opposed to a person riding a bike for any other purpose. [from ca. 1889]
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#3428
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I bought a Schwinn Paceline Bike Helmet for $35 at Target
Was shopping for something else, and ran across this in sporting goods.
So I sucked it up and bought it. Price seems right.
Says CPSC rated, whatever that is.
https://www.target.com/p/schwinn-pac...y/-/A-80178013
So I sucked it up and bought it. Price seems right.
Says CPSC rated, whatever that is.
https://www.target.com/p/schwinn-pac...y/-/A-80178013
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CPSC = Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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It's much better than no helmet protection for crashes that involve head injury and potential for concussion. Probably any more expensive helmet is just marginal gains. Although I do use a somewhat expensive MIP's helmet. And likely my helmets in the future will also be such.
Since we don't really get to pick what kind of crashes we will have, it's better to wear a helmet and be ready. I don't think the cyclists I see with their helmets hanging on the handle bars will have time to put them on when they have a crash. Unless they plan their crashes carefully! <grin>
Since we don't really get to pick what kind of crashes we will have, it's better to wear a helmet and be ready. I don't think the cyclists I see with their helmets hanging on the handle bars will have time to put them on when they have a crash. Unless they plan their crashes carefully! <grin>
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The Paceline wasn't tested, but the $18 Schwinn Intercept helmet earned a 4-star rating in Virginia Tech's test and beat out the $250 Specialized S-Works Evade II and the $240 Kali Tava. A rounded EPS foam dome with a polycarbonate shell is effective protection and it doesn't have to cost more than common disposable product packaging. With that said, I'm personally willing to spend a lot more for comfort, fit, lightweight, style, and marginally better protection.
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The Paceline wasn't tested, but the $18 Schwinn Intercept helmet earned a 4-star rating in Virginia Tech's test and beat out the $250 Specialized S-Works Evade II and the $240 Kali Tava. A rounded EPS foam dome with a polycarbonate shell is effective protection and it doesn't have to cost more than common disposable product packaging. With that said, I'm personally willing to spend a lot more for comfort, fit, lightweight, style, and marginally better protection.
Well Intercept is now $30 also. I feel better.
https://www.target.com/s/schwinn+adult+intercept+helmet
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Sniff, Sniff, those poor misunderstood road cyclists-allegedly dehumanized by those nasty Dutch fietsers who don't wear helmets.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wielrenner
wielrenner
Dutch
Etymology
From wiel + rennen + -er.
Noun
wielrenner m (plural wielrenners, diminutive wielrennertje n, feminine wielrenster):
a sports or fitness cyclist, someone who races bicycles, as opposed to a person riding a bike for any other purpose. [from ca. 1889]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wielrenner
wielrenner
Dutch
Etymology
From wiel + rennen + -er.
Noun
wielrenner m (plural wielrenners, diminutive wielrennertje n, feminine wielrenster):
a sports or fitness cyclist, someone who races bicycles, as opposed to a person riding a bike for any other purpose. [from ca. 1889]
#3434
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Sniff, Sniff, those poor misunderstood road cyclists-allegedly dehumanized by those nasty Dutch fietsers who don't wear helmets.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wielrenner
wielrenner
Dutch
Etymology
From wiel + rennen + -er.
Noun
wielrenner m (plural wielrenners, diminutive wielrennertje n, feminine wielrenster):
a sports or fitness cyclist, someone who races bicycles, as opposed to a person riding a bike for any other purpose. [from ca. 1889]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wielrenner
wielrenner
Dutch
Etymology
From wiel + rennen + -er.
Noun
wielrenner m (plural wielrenners, diminutive wielrennertje n, feminine wielrenster):
a sports or fitness cyclist, someone who races bicycles, as opposed to a person riding a bike for any other purpose. [from ca. 1889]
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It's not intended for antisocial behaviour. If you're too slow to compete in an event with closed off roads, you'll have to adapt your speed to the situation.
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My situation is either commuting to work, or riding for fitness. I like to get where I am going as fast as I can go. I am competing against myself, and so far I'm winning. I do not want to have no choice other than to mix with pedestrians.
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I have the same with cars. I'd like to go faster, pick the raceline, brake late, hit the apex, get on the power smooth and then flat out of the corner. But it's not my road, it would be antisocial to act like it is.
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Am I the only one who loves how road helmets look?
I'm not even talking about the crazy expensive ones.
City style helmets aren't bad either, but they're not my cup of tea personally!
I'm not even talking about the crazy expensive ones.
City style helmets aren't bad either, but they're not my cup of tea personally!
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At least 'road helmet' is the right name, it doesn't do much for the bicycle or cycling, it's made to hit the road.
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It's not that you don't understand and speak the foreign language at hand here, it's that you don't seem to understand the concept of not speaking a foreign language. Foreign languages are different, words don't mean what you think or want them to mean.
At least 'road helmet' is the right name, it doesn't do much for the bicycle or cycling, it's made to hit the road.
At least 'road helmet' is the right name, it doesn't do much for the bicycle or cycling, it's made to hit the road.
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...this depends on how much money you're willing to spend on the helment. I'm not a big Specialized fan, but I recently replaced my old Smith with one of their road helmets because the ventilation was better, and the Smith was beat. Both were MIPS. But it's still a helment, so it's not as good on a hot day as no helment. Just a lot better, for a helment. It was not cheap, even on sale. But I ride here in very hot weather.
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Aren't all helmets made to hit the road? I'm sure they are all equally capable of doing that. How much significant risk injury mitigation any of the "types" provide is debatable as well as the degree of difference in risk reduction between different types of bicycle helmet models and types.
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Road helmet is there to distinguish it from a MTB helmet which typically has a few extra features (visor, bulkier, more coverage) and a city styled helmet (yuck, but) and a TT helmet. They're all varieties of bicycle helmet, and of course, all useful in their respective contexts. Sure, cycling in the Netherlands, I haven't seen much of them, but having great cycling infrastructure and being pancake flat (meaning speeds are predictably moderate all the time) makes that relatively low risk.
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And yes, those draping their helmets over their stems ARE using it as a bicycle helmet in your eyes. (For those who know their stems are worth more than that soft stuff between their ears.)
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It's not that you don't understand and speak the foreign language at hand here, it's that you don't seem to understand the concept of not speaking a foreign language. Foreign languages are different, words don't mean what you think or want them to mean.
At least 'road helmet' is the right name, it doesn't do much for the bicycle or cycling, it's made to hit the road.
At least 'road helmet' is the right name, it doesn't do much for the bicycle or cycling, it's made to hit the road.
#3449
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Bicycle helmets ?
Never worn a bicycle helmet in my life. Thoughts and recommendations. ? Thanks !
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I don't have the photo of the helmet my spouse crushed in a road crash. Nor the helicopter that took her to Harborview in Seattle. Without the helmet, she would be dead or at least brain damaged. A helmet post will set off a firestorm of opinions here. Sigh.... I didn't wear a helmet after years of not riding, but got one when I started up again. Giro makes nice helmets. Their MIPS design minimizes rotational impacts as well as direct blunt force.
Helmets also have a nice side effect of keeping your noggin cool on hot days, and warm if you put beanie under it. I crashed for the first time in decades this summer, and the posterior part of my helmet got knocked in. Not badly, but not my brain either. In the last ten years, everyone I know who got whacked were at low speeds, no traffic, etc. Failed mount up and hit head on large rock. Failed dismount, fell sideways onto head. Fast around a corner and tree branch to head. Loss of visibility in a tunnel. I think a lot of people have mishaps of inattention more than speed and cars. Nothing on earth will save you if you get hit by a car or run over by a big truck. But I find that my helmet, like seatbelts in a car, are now just part of the deal. Without a helmet or seatbelt, it just doesn't feel right anymore. YMMV
Helmets also have a nice side effect of keeping your noggin cool on hot days, and warm if you put beanie under it. I crashed for the first time in decades this summer, and the posterior part of my helmet got knocked in. Not badly, but not my brain either. In the last ten years, everyone I know who got whacked were at low speeds, no traffic, etc. Failed mount up and hit head on large rock. Failed dismount, fell sideways onto head. Fast around a corner and tree branch to head. Loss of visibility in a tunnel. I think a lot of people have mishaps of inattention more than speed and cars. Nothing on earth will save you if you get hit by a car or run over by a big truck. But I find that my helmet, like seatbelts in a car, are now just part of the deal. Without a helmet or seatbelt, it just doesn't feel right anymore. YMMV
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