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otolith
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19,343 posts
73 months
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N Dentressangle
2,452 posts
91 months
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itsnotarace
3,658 posts
78 months
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otolith
Original Poster
19,343 posts
73 months
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I think he's just realised how unpopular his opinion is in some quarters.
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Silver993tt
8,084 posts
108 months
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I heard him being interviewed on the subject and he definitely recommends at the very least wearing a helmut. Makes complete sense, they weigh nearly nothing and yet can save the most important part of your body. No brainer.
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Obiwonkeyblokey
4,848 posts
109 months
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Boris agrees. 
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Gizmoish
15,494 posts
78 months
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Silver993tt said: I heard him being interviewed on the subject and he definitely recommends at the very least wearing a helmut. Makes complete sense, they weigh nearly nothing and yet can save the most important part of your body. No brainer. There's a difference between recommending wearing one - which he does - and calling for them to be mandatory, which he isn't. I suspect someone may have advised him to clarify his position, and what's the harm in that?
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otolith
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19,343 posts
73 months
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His clarification appears to be that he thinks they should be compulsory but he isn't campaining for it.
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paranoid airbag
1,301 posts
28 months
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scrwright
780 posts
59 months
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Why are people so against wearing a lid? Seriously, what is the downside apart from looking like knob?
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MonkeyMatt
4,740 posts
76 months
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scrwright said: Why are people so against wearing a lid? Seriously, what is the downside apart from looking like knob? They look like knobs anyway (commuters that is!)! they are on a bike in either lycra or a suit! A helmet isnt gona make it any worse
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Gizmoish
15,494 posts
78 months
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paranoid airbag said: There's a surprising amount of sense in that article. It's just as well I was sitting down. I wish people would make a distinction between 'jumping' and 'running' red lights though. I stop, always, and go on orange if it's clear. The people who just blaze through regardless p!ss me right off.
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NinjaPower
2,313 posts
49 months
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scrwright said: Why are people so against wearing a lid? Seriously, what is the downside apart from looking like knob? I guess because it is another case of someone telling you what is or isn't good for you which is often taken as 'nannying' or simple interference. I own a bike which I use very occationally when the weather is nice. I don't own a helmet though.
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RichB
24,204 posts
153 months
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Following the euphoria of him winning a gold medal to hear that sadly a cyclist was killed by an Olympic bus that same evening leads to some emotional comments. I doubt anyone would dispute wearing a helmet (and not wearing headphones/iPods etc.) makes a great deal of sense but I guess it's all down to having less regulations and using more common sense.
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EliseNick
89 posts
50 months
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I'm vaguely reminded of this; http://xkcd.com/799/Bit unfair to ask him to come up with a perfectly thought-out and unambiguously phrased opinion on the spur of the moment.
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FactoryBacked
168 posts
101 months
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He appeared to get caught off-guard by the question when he was asked and got a bit tongue-tied when giving his answer. He actually said something like 'the wearing of helmets should be legalised'. Which I guess was him saying they should be made compulsory.
I don't understand the agenda or reasoning behind not making them compulsory.
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MrsMiggins
1,233 posts
104 months
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I'm sure I read somewhere that there is a difference of opinion in expert circles regarding the gains that would actually be made if helmets were compulsory.
The argument agains went along the lines of:
Helmets may save your head if you have an accident, BUT making them compulsory makes cycling appear more dangerous SO less people will cycle which will mean that less people will enjoy the health benefits of cycling SO more people will die if helmets are compulsory, they just won't die in road accidents.
The above may or may not be cobblers / totally made up.
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CoolC
1,859 posts
83 months
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 I'm sure if he was a strong believer in legislation he wouldn't pose for pictures like this with his son. Compulsory helmets will always be one of those subjects that polarises opinion, but ultimately is un-enforcable. how would you police the kids riding up and down their streets or those in the park, the little old dear who rides past out house every day to the shops down the road etc etc.
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paranoid airbag
1,301 posts
28 months
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^^ lovely picture that,
@MrsMiggins, yes, that's a reasonably popular theory. One of many arguments as to why merely counting up the deaths from a particular activity then the amount people do that activity is not a good way of measuring how safe it is...
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metalsteve
239 posts
110 months
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For me, wearing a helmet when cycling is second nature, just like putting on my seatbelt when driving.
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