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Not sure if you saw the South Run over the weekend.

Organisers were following the runners on cycles. And they were all wearing the same bright orange helmets.

Now shoot me down in flames for a double standard here, but they were following the runners. Going no faster. And I'd argue that where runners formed tight groups, they were most likely to fall, not the cyclist.

So why were the runners not also wearing a helmet.

We're going to hell in a handbasket, you couldn't make it up etc etc . . .

Gazza

Gazza
You know things have to be just so(PC and all that) and how dangerous a bicycle is........

Because it's not the risk, but the perceived risk that counts.

Even if a runner hit their head, nobody would suggest they should have worn protection, because running is "safe" and cycling is "dangerous".

Ironically, a marathon runner is 100% inside the design envelope for a bike helmet while many cyclists exceed it routinely!

Even more pointed, who here has come off their bike as many times as they have tripped over? I know I've hit the deck from my feet far more times (of course that's just anecdotal).

EdinburghFixed wrote:Even more pointed, who here has come off their bike as many times as they have tripped over? I know I've hit the deck from my feet far more times (of course that's just anecdotal).

I run around 50-60km a week and have never fallen over...

I've fallen off my bike twice in the last year that I remember (first going over a rut at an acute angle and the tyre slipped, second my 3rd outing with SPD's).

It's hard because I remember bike crashes far more vividly than tripping over my own feet - but I'm pretty sure that I've lost my footing as often as I've stacked the bike...

Well, I combined being a pedestrian with having a cycle accident last night, when I fell over my son's bike which he'd left blocking the pitch dark outside passageway.
I wasn't wearing a helmet, either

Perhaps to the best thing is to all wear helmets from getting up to going to bed then we would be safe

PS and elbow,knee and shin pads, protective gloves,toetecters,back belts,neck straps,and a suit of armour,there I think that covers it

reohn2 wrote:Perhaps to the best thing is to all wear helmets from getting up to going to bed then we would be safe

PS and elbow,knee and shin pads, protective gloves,toetecters,back belts,neck straps,and a suit of armour,there I think that covers it

Or we could just wear a car...

reohn2 wrote:Perhaps to the best thing is to all wear helmets from getting up to going to bed then we would be safe

PS and elbow,knee and shin pads, protective gloves,toetecters,back belts,neck straps,and a suit of armour,there I think that covers it

Wot - no eye protection

EdinburghFixed wrote:Ironically, a marathon runner is 100% inside the design envelope for a bike helmet while many cyclists exceed it routinely!

Sprinters reach around 25mph, which is faster than many cyclists, and with their heads at the same height...

Edit: Oops, sorry, kwackers' post has shown me that I typed 15 when I meant 25, and yes, the truth is probably higher than that.

drossall wrote:

EdinburghFixed wrote:Ironically, a marathon runner is 100% inside the design envelope for a bike helmet while many cyclists exceed it routinely!

Sprinters reach around 15mph, which is faster than many cyclists, and with their heads at the same height...

Nearer 30mph even.

reohn2 wrote:Perhaps to the best thing is to all wear helmets from getting up to going to bed then we would be safe

PS and elbow,knee and shin pads, protective gloves,toetecters,back belts,neck straps,and a suit of armour,there I think that covers it

I've suggested this to Mrs L, but she's not going for it.....

Phil_Lee wrote:

reohn2 wrote:Perhaps to the best thing is to all wear helmets from getting up to going to bed then we would be safe

PS and elbow,knee and shin pads, protective gloves,toetecters,back belts,neck straps,and a suit of armour,there I think that covers it

Wot - no eye protection

Oops sorry quite forgot.....nobody move!

Simon L6 wrote:

reohn2 wrote:Perhaps to the best thing is to all wear helmets from getting up to going to bed then we would be safe

PS and elbow,knee and shin pads, protective gloves,toetecters,back belts,neck straps,and a suit of armour,there I think that covers it

I've suggested this to Mrs L, but she's not going for it.....

You have explained about taking precautions?

drossall wrote:

EdinburghFixed wrote:Ironically, a marathon runner is 100% inside the design envelope for a bike helmet while many cyclists exceed it routinely!

Sprinters reach around 25mph, which is faster than many cyclists, and with their heads at the same height...

So motorcycle helmets seem appropriate?