Cycling is so very dangerous !!

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Cycling is so very dangerous !!

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Helmet manufactures.
They need to sell helmets and they need you to be too frightened to cycle without one.

ANGI

Cycling is so dangerous that you must wear a helmet that calls for help !
Has a "Safety Beacon".
A "Crash Detector"
A "Tracker".

ANGi / SPECIALIZED .... a brand i will never use ....
But ......
Watch the arms race begin as all the other manufactures of fear ... sorry "Helmets " ... jump on the band wagon !!

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It appears that it's as dangerous as driving.
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The scaredy-cats are winning. Recently a group ride I joined asked us to take a mobile phone for emergencies.
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It’s not so much ‘scaredy cat’ as doing what’s required by insurance companies a lot of the time.
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Marcus Aurelius wrote:It’s not so much ‘scaredy cat’ as doing what’s required by insurance companies a lot of the time.

Prove it. Usually helmet zealots either won't show their insurance policy document (I suspect because it doesn't force helmets) or won't say whether they tried to get a policy without helmet forcing, such as getting event insurance through CUK instead of BC (I suspect because they offered to force helmets without being asked, which of course an insurer would accept because it limits participation numbers so reduces their risk overall even if it increases it slightly per rider).
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landsurfer wrote:Helmet manufactures.
They need to sell helmets and they need you to be too frightened to cycle without one.

ANGI

Cycling is so dangerous that you must wear a helmet that calls for help !
Has a "Safety Beacon".
A "Crash Detector"
A "Tracker".

ANGi / SPECIALIZED .... a brand i will never use ....
But ......
Watch the arms race begin as all the other manufactures of fear ... sorry "Helmets " ... jump on the band wagon !!

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:


Thanks for nothing! You’ve just spoilt my week :-(

Looked up ANGi, I don’t believe it, where will it all end?? So depressing

Ps: I’ve got a better idea; stay in bed for the rest of your life.....
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Phil Fouracre wrote:Thanks for nothing! You’ve just spoilt my week :-(

Looked up ANGi, I don’t believe it, where will it all end?? So depressing

Ps: I’ve got a better idea; stay in bed for the rest of your life.....

I strongly recommend you spend ten minutes looking at the photographs in the Roughstuff Fellowship archive as an antidote - https://www.instagram.com/rsfarchive/. People riding bikes and enjoying themselves with nary a helmet in sight.
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mjr wrote:
Marcus Aurelius wrote:It’s not so much ‘scaredy cat’ as doing what’s required by insurance companies a lot of the time.

Prove it. Usually helmet zealots either won't show their insurance policy document (I suspect because it doesn't force helmets) or won't say whether they tried to get a policy without helmet forcing, such as getting event insurance through CUK instead of BC (I suspect because they offered to force helmets without being asked, which of course an insurer would accept because it limits participation numbers so reduces their risk overall even if it increases it slightly per rider).


As a BC ride leader you have to risk asses your routes to satisfy the insurance requirements. If you asses a part of a route as having a potential increased risk of riders falling, the mitigation could be using a lid. Then wearing a lid becomes a requirement for participation in the ride. I don’t personally include such things in my risk assessments, but I know lots of RLs that do. BC’s risk assessment for Ride Leaders on an official Guided ride does include these terms, so RLs have to wear a lid on an official Guided Ride. Personally, I’ve had a few ‘offs’ in the past, where my head has taken the brunt of the impact. Therefore I think a lid is a worthwhile thing to wear. I certainly don’t expect anyone else to wear a lid if they don’t want to. I wish they would, but I don’t try and make anyone do so.
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Marcus Aurelius wrote:
mjr wrote:
Marcus Aurelius wrote:It’s not so much ‘scaredy cat’ as doing what’s required by insurance companies a lot of the time.

Prove it. Usually helmet zealots either won't show their insurance policy document (I suspect because it doesn't force helmets) or won't say whether they tried to get a policy without helmet forcing, such as getting event insurance through CUK instead of BC (I suspect because they offered to force helmets without being asked, which of course an insurer would accept because it limits participation numbers so reduces their risk overall even if it increases it slightly per rider).


As a BC ride leader you have to risk asses your routes to satisfy the insurance requirements. [...various claims...]

Is BC's policy wording visible? Did BC try to get a policy without helmet forcing? (To be clear, I view certain BC managers I've interacted with as helmet zealots - I'm not saying anything against you.)
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The ignorance of insurers and organisers is legendary


After several years of pointing out that UK Cycling Event's requirements excluded EN1078 helmets (the European standard) by insisting on up to date Snell and the long obsolete ANSI ......the EN1078 helmets do not comply with the tougher Snell Standards, and ANSI doesn't actually exist..... the majority of helmets on their ride were in fact banned by their own rules. They cannot even claim it is an insurance requirement as they clearly stated that wearing an EN1078 hemet were not covered by the event's insurance.

Now they have taken this on board and added EN 1078 to the list:

5. You must wear a safety-approved cycling helmet complying with latest EN1078, ANSI Z90/4 or SNELL standards during your participation in the event. Any rider not wearing a helmet will not be covered by the event insurance and will be disqualified from the event and could be liable for damages if involved in an accident on that basis. You must accept this as a condition of entry.




Surely any organisation would do basic research about what they required...... that would have discovered that the ANSI Z90/4 has't existed for many years. The committee last met in over 20 years, and was superseded by ATM some 15 years ago by the ASTM standard..... the stupidity and ignorance continues
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Phil Fouracre wrote:
landsurfer wrote:Helmet manufactures.
They need to sell helmets and they need you to be too frightened to cycle without one.

ANGI

Cycling is so dangerous that you must wear a helmet that calls for help !
Has a "Safety Beacon".
A "Crash Detector"
A "Tracker".

ANGi / SPECIALIZED .... a brand i will never use ....
But ......
Watch the arms race begin as all the other manufactures of fear ... sorry "Helmets " ... jump on the band wagon !!

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:


Thanks for nothing! You’ve just spoilt my week :-(

Looked up ANGi, I don’t believe it, where will it all end?? So depressing

Ps: I’ve got a better idea; stay in bed for the rest of your life.....



I hope you are wearing a helmet... on average 290 people died each year falling out of bed, and a large number of these are head injuries.
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slowster wrote:
Phil Fouracre wrote:Thanks for nothing! You’ve just spoilt my week :-(

Looked up ANGi, I don’t believe it, where will it all end?? So depressing

Ps: I’ve got a better idea; stay in bed for the rest of your life.....

I strongly recommend you spend ten minutes looking at the photographs in the Roughstuff Fellowship archive as an antidote - https://www.instagram.com/rsfarchive/. People riding bikes and enjoying themselves with nary a helmet in sight.

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Glad to be a RSF member myself .............
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Love the pics :-)
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Marcus Aurelius wrote:
mjr wrote:
Marcus Aurelius wrote:It’s not so much ‘scaredy cat’ as doing what’s required by insurance companies a lot of the time.

Prove it. Usually helmet zealots either won't show their insurance policy document (I suspect because it doesn't force helmets) or won't say whether they tried to get a policy without helmet forcing, such as getting event insurance through CUK instead of BC (I suspect because they offered to force helmets without being asked, which of course an insurer would accept because it limits participation numbers so reduces their risk overall even if it increases it slightly per rider).


As a BC ride leader you have to risk asses your routes to satisfy the insurance requirements. If you asses a part of a route as having a potential increased risk of riders falling, the mitigation could be using a lid. Then wearing a lid becomes a requirement for participation in the ride. I don’t personally include such things in my risk assessments, but I know lots of RLs that do. BC’s risk assessment for Ride Leaders on an official Guided ride does include these terms, so RLs have to wear a lid on an official Guided Ride. Personally, I’ve had a few ‘offs’ in the past, where my head has taken the brunt of the impact. Therefore I think a lid is a worthwhile thing to wear. I certainly don’t expect anyone else to wear a lid if they don’t want to. I wish they would, but I don’t try and make anyone do so.


And as usual the logic for this thinking has none. Why is there a risk of coming off, is it because behahiour in the first instance is not appropriate for the conditions, usually going too fast, not paying attention to road surface despite already decreed in advance you know it to be not that great. So what happens when you wear a helmet, people take greater risk at those same points thus increases chance of an off than before, it does exacerbate this.
Doesn't wearing the helmet increase the chances of a head strike in any case where you are massively more likely to miss striking your head without?

Don't you find it somewhat more than coincidental that the weekend warrior and this is directly aimed at BC et al, that there has been significant increases in coming off the bike and getting injured/striking their heads, swiftly followed by the 'helmet saved my life' story, since helmet wearing became a thing?
I don't, they go hand in hand and is replicated in every country and at competition level. it's a total false logic that says, increased chance of coming off, so let's increase it further whilst increasing chance of a head strike by making our heads significantly heavier and bigger
Self serving to say the least.
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