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Peter Clinch
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Artemisia wrote:
> Actually I wear the gloves always, even when not cycling. My balance
> is so bad that I have to be constantly grabbing at things - stair
> bannisters, bollards, traffic signs - to stay upright when walking in
> the street, and I'd rather have the filth accumulate on the gloves
> than on my hands. Fortunately they're very washable and fast-drying.
>
> OTOH, what about the head lid on the Scorpion? Carol Hague told me she
> never wears a helmet on her Greenspeeds as the kind of head injury one
> would get from tipping off an upright just isn't going to happen.
You wear gloves all the time, do you wear a helmet all the time?
If not, note you're in a similar danger of head injury when riding as
when walking, so if you manage when walking without one, you can manage
without one cycling. And on a trike you can't spontaneously fall over
even if you try!
> all the darth websites show the people on the trikes in head-lids
It's more a demographic of the sort of people who ride 'bent trikes.
Greenspeeds are most often photographed in Oz where they're compulsory,
for example. In the UK and US there is a tendency for Serious Cyclists
to wear lids more as they assume it makes good sense (it /does/ until
you actually read the research which shows there's basically no effect
on serious injuries...) and it's Serious Cyclists who invest a small
fortune on 'bent trikes.
> there is always my superstitious fear of riding unlidded.
Then carry a St. Christopher instead.
Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
> Actually I wear the gloves always, even when not cycling. My balance
> is so bad that I have to be constantly grabbing at things - stair
> bannisters, bollards, traffic signs - to stay upright when walking in
> the street, and I'd rather have the filth accumulate on the gloves
> than on my hands. Fortunately they're very washable and fast-drying.
>
> OTOH, what about the head lid on the Scorpion? Carol Hague told me she
> never wears a helmet on her Greenspeeds as the kind of head injury one
> would get from tipping off an upright just isn't going to happen.
You wear gloves all the time, do you wear a helmet all the time?
If not, note you're in a similar danger of head injury when riding as
when walking, so if you manage when walking without one, you can manage
without one cycling. And on a trike you can't spontaneously fall over
even if you try!
> all the darth websites show the people on the trikes in head-lids
It's more a demographic of the sort of people who ride 'bent trikes.
Greenspeeds are most often photographed in Oz where they're compulsory,
for example. In the UK and US there is a tendency for Serious Cyclists
to wear lids more as they assume it makes good sense (it /does/ until
you actually read the research which shows there's basically no effect
on serious injuries...) and it's Serious Cyclists who invest a small
fortune on 'bent trikes.
> there is always my superstitious fear of riding unlidded.
Then carry a St. Christopher instead.
Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/