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> One of these people yelled so that all could hear "Look they're not
> wearing helmets!" I would like to have interviewed the rider whom we
> heard for his estimate of the situation. I think it would have boiled
> down to "anyone who descends faster than I is crazy while slower ones
> are slugs, and helmets make all this safe.
They must be newbies. I've been up on the west side of La Honda road,
and when we saw someone descending at a high rate of speed with no
helmet, someone simply said "look, it's Jobst."
For many years I led rides for WW, and many of the leaders, including
myself, fought the evil helmet forces, threatening to stop leading rides
if they made helmets mandatory. We prevailed for several years.
Eventually it was a choice between shutting down the club because
liability insurance would be impossible to obtain without requiring
helmets, unless the dues went up so much that no one would join anyway.
As I've gotten older, I have less patience for all the **** involved
with these clubs, and the problems they cause in places like Woodside
and Portola Valley.
> One of these people yelled so that all could hear "Look they're not
> wearing helmets!" I would like to have interviewed the rider whom we
> heard for his estimate of the situation. I think it would have boiled
> down to "anyone who descends faster than I is crazy while slower ones
> are slugs, and helmets make all this safe.
They must be newbies. I've been up on the west side of La Honda road,
and when we saw someone descending at a high rate of speed with no
helmet, someone simply said "look, it's Jobst."
For many years I led rides for WW, and many of the leaders, including
myself, fought the evil helmet forces, threatening to stop leading rides
if they made helmets mandatory. We prevailed for several years.
Eventually it was a choice between shutting down the club because
liability insurance would be impossible to obtain without requiring
helmets, unless the dues went up so much that no one would join anyway.
As I've gotten older, I have less patience for all the **** involved
with these clubs, and the problems they cause in places like Woodside
and Portola Valley.