Aieeee! You've opened up that can of rotted worms that I feel many of us were hoping would remain at the back of the bike shed with the Chater-Lea chainset! I cannae resist chewin' on them worms, though ....Nearholmer wrote: ↑26 Jun 2022, 9:07am .....
Stuff to add to a basic bike:
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Wear very bright colours on the road. Wear a helmet (it is one of the ten things that you personally can do to improve safety, and although it will hopefully never need to be decisive it is cheap and imposes no dis-benefit).
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You know, do you not, that those particular recommendations you make about "safety" are the very opposite of what many other highly experienced cyclists would recommend; and that the reasons for your recommending the polystyrene con-job are contested, since they don't improve personal safety (might even detract from it); are not "cheap" and indeed do impose dis-benefits, from sweaty head, through strapping wind-noise and (most damning of all) the possibility of a false sense of invulnerability in the plastic-headed cyclist that can encourage more risk taking or being put at risk by motoring loons who make the same wrong assumption about the magical protection abilities of polystyrene.
Spoilt the thread, you have! (And I'm now spoiling it more, I know).
To the OP - I recommend a trawl of the interwebbery concerning cycling helmets and their contribution or lack of it to cycling safety. Ditto the hi-viz. You'll find many opinions, data sets from studies and explorations of the subject from all points of view. Suffice it to say that the matter is contentious and by no means as clear as Mr Holmer suggests.
Cugel
