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Alan Erskine
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"Rado bladteth Rzeznicki" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Alan Erskine wrote:
>
> > This afternoon, while riding along the the Beach Road bike path outside
the
> > Beaumauris Yacht Club, there's a _small_ decline.
>
> [snip]
>
> This story clearly proves that riding with helmet on could, and most of the times, is more
> hazardous than riding bare-headed. Say, if you did not have a few cm of hard foam on your head,
> would you ride so recklessly along the Beach Road?
If you read my posts _properly_ you would see that I said I hit some sand near the bottom of the
hill and that I had nowhere to go. I said this in response to the post from "Leon" two days ago
("Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> AMATURE
Yeah, so?
I started braking and hit the sand near the bottom of the hill. Then I REALLY hit the sand! Nowhere
to go and nothing I could do to stop it.)
It wasn't a matter of irresponsibility or not, it was simply unavoidable. It could just as easily
have happened on the level part of the bike path due to wind-blown sand. That's precisely the reason
_why_ I wear a helmet - to save myself from the unavoidable incidents that _do_ occur. Or I could
have run into another cyclist going in the opposite direction (either of us could be avoiding the
scrub along the path edges) or one of the skaters or....
What you're saying is the same as "so, you were walking along the street and got a nail in your shoe
which went into your foot; if you weren't wearing shoes would you have been so reckless?"
Just for the record, it was the Beauy Yacht Club just north of Reserve Road, not the Beaumaris Motor
Yacht Squadron which is around the 'corner' on Beaumaris Bay - I always get those two mixed up.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad - the new ******
www.optusnet.com.au/news/story/abc/20031017/12/domestic/969056.inp
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> Alan Erskine wrote:
>
> > This afternoon, while riding along the the Beach Road bike path outside
the
> > Beaumauris Yacht Club, there's a _small_ decline.
>
> [snip]
>
> This story clearly proves that riding with helmet on could, and most of the times, is more
> hazardous than riding bare-headed. Say, if you did not have a few cm of hard foam on your head,
> would you ride so recklessly along the Beach Road?
If you read my posts _properly_ you would see that I said I hit some sand near the bottom of the
hill and that I had nowhere to go. I said this in response to the post from "Leon" two days ago
("Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> AMATURE
Yeah, so?
I started braking and hit the sand near the bottom of the hill. Then I REALLY hit the sand! Nowhere
to go and nothing I could do to stop it.)
It wasn't a matter of irresponsibility or not, it was simply unavoidable. It could just as easily
have happened on the level part of the bike path due to wind-blown sand. That's precisely the reason
_why_ I wear a helmet - to save myself from the unavoidable incidents that _do_ occur. Or I could
have run into another cyclist going in the opposite direction (either of us could be avoiding the
scrub along the path edges) or one of the skaters or....
What you're saying is the same as "so, you were walking along the street and got a nail in your shoe
which went into your foot; if you weren't wearing shoes would you have been so reckless?"
Just for the record, it was the Beauy Yacht Club just north of Reserve Road, not the Beaumaris Motor
Yacht Squadron which is around the 'corner' on Beaumaris Bay - I always get those two mixed up.
--
Alan Erskine alanterskine(at)hotmail.com
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad - the new ******
www.optusnet.com.au/news/story/abc/20031017/12/domestic/969056.inp
