Graham wrote:Ghetto material methinks ?
As the snow flies ...
Graham wrote:Ghetto material methinks ?
meic wrote:There is a slight problem with having the ghetto that any issue of which helmets is a part can always be sent to the ghetto by starting along the same old lines.
mjr wrote:ibbo68 wrote:Wearing a helmet is personal preference,I always do Road,CX or MTB but if you're out MTBing with us you wear one or you don't join us.
If you're imposing it on others, how is that personal preference?
I'm not imposing anything.If you don't want to wear a helmet don't.If you don't you're not riding with us.You have a choiceibbo68 wrote:Simple.
I don't want or need the responsibility and certainly don't want to have to explain to Mountain Rescue/Emergency Services why someones head is broken halfway down Snowden/Helvellyn/Ben Lomond etc
Typical road helmets aren't tested for MTB situations.
ibbo68 wrote:I ride with two CCs and nobody rides without a helmet.IIRC any CC affiliated with British Cycling has to ensure Helmets are worn.
gaz wrote:Locally the council run cycle rides for adults under "health" and cycle events for all ages under "sport".
"Sport" sub-contract out the bigger events, sportives and MTB races to the usual providers who insist on mandatory helmet wearing. However "sport" also organise an annual mass participation family ride on closed roads and childrens "races" on a closed running track. Helmets are mandatory for both.
"Health" on the other hand organise helmet optional rides. My understanding is that they would love to make them helmet compulsory but at least part of their funding is from CTC and is conditional on helmet choice for riders.
A few years ago "health" organised a family treasure hunt on public roads starting from the site of a "sport" event. They were having kittens as they discovered some parents were not only happy for their unhelmeted children to take part but to do so unaccompanied.
ibbo68 wrote:I ride with two CCs and nobody rides without a helmet.IIRC any CC affiliated with British Cycling has to ensure Helmets are worn.
If someone REALLY needs or wants to be on a bike they will wear one. Someone has manipulated these figures surely.
meic wrote:If someone REALLY needs or wants to be on a bike they will wear one. Someone has manipulated these figures surely.
The first sentence is true*. But why should any obstacle exist. If I really wanted to ride a cycle path I would lift my bike over the barriers, instead I just choose to ride somewhere else instead.
Others may be just choosing not to cycle instead.
Heltor Chasca wrote:* The stats overseas suggest that making wearing a helmet mandatory has resulted in a decrease in riding . I simply won't accept that. If someone REALLY needs or wants to be on a bike they will wear one. Someone has manipulated these figures surely.