Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Roger Merriman Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test Date: 26 Mar 2025 18:51:39 GMT Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <3qs4ujp5mkd12irvkc4muan5h3mki6r2ft@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net eFfZ6sEg3JKGyb9GXb/smQtqBaXlg+RIIYkTbRIEcoNPiknKit Cancel-Lock: sha1:kKHlIcryfpe9+9OlOW38+ff+7QA= sha1:cnnW8fzJuzW174Cw20hbYjjkYgo= sha256:C5cJ4t2+yfeMOIi1JQVLRgtzGS7QqpIcK4VoqE/sE/s= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPad) Bytes: 2441 Frank Krygowski wrote: > On 3/25/2025 1:33 PM, Roger Merriman wrote: >> Catrike Ryder wrote: >>> >>> I can't understand why anyone argues about wearing helmets other than >>> about making it mandatory. Whether on not a person wears a helmet has >>> no effect on anyone else. As for laws about adults wearing them, they >>> are gradually falling by the wayside. >>> >>> -- >>> C'est bon >>> Soloman >>> >> >> Get it required by organisations and organised events which is admittedly a >> low percentage of cyclists ie folks who are club members and/or Sportives >> etc which often requires helmets commonly due to insurance. > > Even the insurance is usually a red herring. I ran our club's annual > century for about eight years. We carried insurance through the League > of American Bicyclists, and I was very familiar with their required > liability release. It said absolutely nothing about helmets. > May well be! I do wear one for reasons but that’s one of the yes probably excuses that you hear, though I very rarely ride in such events so. > When I ran the ride, we did not require helmets. Almost everyone wore > one anyway. (It's part of America's "avid cyclist" costume, and fashion > is weird and powerful.) We had very few crashes and never a liability > problem. > > Roger Merriman