No more helmets please!!

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Lucky you've never seen the assymetrical rear triangle on Quackers with an off-centre mudguard. Goes rather nicely with just one pannier......
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Wildduck wrote:Do you cycle with one or two panniers? :D

Yes.
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Wildduck wrote:Do you cycle with one or two panniers? :D
I saw something terrible last night. I saw a bike with two panniers but one was full and bulging the other was empty. So unsymmetrical, so horrible to behold. Why did the cyclist not sort them to me symmetrical?
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john4703 wrote:Why did the cyclist not sort them to me symmetrical?


maybe it was me. sometimes when I go shopping I put lettuce and the like - bulky but light stuff - in one and then heavy compact stuff in the other (so it doesn't squash my lettuce). They probably weigh the same but one looks stuffed full and the other almost empty.
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Post by keepontriking »

I often take a single pannier - just so I can carry the helmet.

...honestly.


Its always a right hand one tho'.
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If I want to write about helmets I will. No one not even Lawrie9 will stop me!

At the moment I don't but when I do I will OK?
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Post by lauriematt »

whats everyones reason for buying a helmet??

obviously theres safety...

but i bought mine as it was the Rules for a local triathlon i did...wouldnt have bought one otherwise!
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Post by david143 »

lauriematt wrote:whats everyones reason for buying a helmet??

obviously theres safety...

but i bought mine as it was the Rules for a local triathlon i did...wouldnt have bought one otherwise!


Being a Motor Cyclist for years, when I decided to buy a cycle for the first time, I naturally budgeted for a helmet as well. Cycle helmets are nowhere near as protective, but anything is better than nothing to my mind.
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Post by commuter world »

hmm, shouldn't this thread be titled "no more posts about helmets", rather than the slightly more argumentative "no more helmets"?
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You just cannot get away from the subject. There's even a letter in today's The Times
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