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Richard Burton
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I was given the Haynes book "The Bike Book" for xmas, lucky me, and the sections on bike maintenance
are excellent.
Unfortunately, it also has a section about personal safety, which includes the statement "Helmet
wearing is voluntary, not a legal requirement, but very few bike riders are now bold enough to
venture on to the roads without one." With the exception of the legality of helmets, this
statement is apparently a deliberate lie. The majority of road cyclists do not wear a helmet, and
the implication that a helmet is of any use whatsoever in collision with a motor vehicle is
arrant nonsense.
I have visited the Haynes website and after trying to use their response service, emailed their
webmaster, who has passed my comments on to the author. Please feel free to do the same.
For those of you who have read some of my previous posts, and have taken exception to my
description of some of the pro-helmet lobby as "fascists" this is a perfect example of what I mean:
the deliberate dissumulation of complete nonsense, because the facts don't fit with their own
logic-less beliefs.
A helmet will give you only two things: a false sense of security, and a hole in your wallet.
Rich - helmetless and proud of it!
are excellent.
Unfortunately, it also has a section about personal safety, which includes the statement "Helmet
wearing is voluntary, not a legal requirement, but very few bike riders are now bold enough to
venture on to the roads without one." With the exception of the legality of helmets, this
statement is apparently a deliberate lie. The majority of road cyclists do not wear a helmet, and
the implication that a helmet is of any use whatsoever in collision with a motor vehicle is
arrant nonsense.
I have visited the Haynes website and after trying to use their response service, emailed their
webmaster, who has passed my comments on to the author. Please feel free to do the same.
For those of you who have read some of my previous posts, and have taken exception to my
description of some of the pro-helmet lobby as "fascists" this is a perfect example of what I mean:
the deliberate dissumulation of complete nonsense, because the facts don't fit with their own
logic-less beliefs.
A helmet will give you only two things: a false sense of security, and a hole in your wallet.
Rich - helmetless and proud of it!