mattsccm wrote: ↑19 Jan 2023, 6:28pm
<snip>I wonder how CTT feel about Sikhs and turbans? Or the UCI. Could you make a very aero turban (no offence meant if I have used the wrong word and most definitely not being disrestful, apart possibly to CTT/UCI)
I don't know about CTT, but for British Cycling Go-Ride coaching there are specific exemptions for the helmets rule for medical and religious grounds, Sikhs specifically used as examples.
if a turban-requiring Sikh turns up at one of my sessions I am to do a Risk Assessment to decide whether he's doomed or not, and if I decide not he'll be good to ride. Quite why I can't perform such an RA for anyone else isn't explained, and wasn't explained after I went to some length to point out this particular bit of daftness in my written assessment for the L2 Coaching award either... My assessment was done by Scottish Cycling who (a) pointed out I'd scored particularly well on the written section and (b) if I wanted to take up issue with someone it would be Manchester and not Glasgow.
So off to BC I went, and they immediately tried to pass the buck back to SC but I pointed out they'd already been caught out by their Northern colleagues on that, and we then proceeded with an elaborate "I'm not going to answer your questions" game until after some time and a 'phone call with someone in BC Coaching where he pretty much admitted that BC helmet policy was down to insurance requirements. I think I only got that because I'd just qualified as an L2 Coach, and in general any approach to BC about their helmet policy that can't be answered by pointing you to the web page seems to be met with tumbleweed. They really
don't want to talk about it, at least with argumentative so-and-sos like me.
On to the "is it a human right?" issue, I can't really see it going anywhere to be honest. If anyone in CTT feels their rights are being abused they can form another association and if you want to challenge it on lack of good safety evidence grounds then all they really have to do is point at Highway Code Rule 59. That that's mince isn't the point, it gives them a base that anyone in a court will probably side with rather than spending a few years reading studies they don't care about and don't have the skills to understand.
Pete.
Often seen riding a bike around Dundee...