H*lmet quandary

"Zog The Undeniable" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I've signed up for an all day MTB ride at the weekend, and
just remembered that the other participants are known
helmet zealots (to the extent that they have made them
MANDATORY on their C2C rides).

Do I turn up bareheaded as usual (I haven't worn a
helmet outside for...er...9 years) and be prepared to
argue/be ostracised, or do I go with the flow and wear
the hot choking torture device that is buried somewhere
under the stairs?

Can you 'forget' it?

(how do they enforce 'mandatory'?)

cheers, clive

Zog The Undeniable said:

I've signed up for an all day MTB ride at the weekend, and
just remembered that the other participants are known
helmet zealots (to the extent that they have made them
MANDATORY on their C2C rides).

Do I turn up bareheaded as usual (I haven't worn a
helmet outside for...er...9 years) and be prepared to
argue/be ostracised, or do I go with the flow and wear
the hot choking torture device that is buried somewhere
under the stairs?

Despite my conversion to helmetless road riding I am still
persuade of the merits off-road. The sorts of accidents
there are much more within the parameters of helmet design,
falling off is far more frequent and there are no cars
around, just trees, scratchy bushes and rocks.

Tony

Quoted message said:

I've signed up for an all day MTB ride at the weekend, and
just remembered that the other participants are known
helmet zealots (to the extent that they have made them
MANDATORY on their C2C rides).

Do I turn up bareheaded as usual (I haven't worn a
helmet outside for...er...9 years) and be prepared to
argue/be ostracised, or do I go with the flow and wear
the hot choking torture device that is buried somewhere
under the stairs?

If the weather is as glorious as todays was then no! :-)

Just be aware that if you make an issue out of it then hit
your head they'll all laugh at you.

Zog The Undeniable said:

Do I turn up bareheaded as usual (I haven't worn a
helmet outside for...er...9 years) and be prepared to
argue/be ostracised, or do I go with the flow and wear
the hot choking torture device that is buried somewhere
under the stairs?

I would ride as you would normally ride. If you would
normally ride helmetless offroad, then do so. I was content
to wear my plastic hat in Goring (heat notwithstanding)
because based on past experience there was a fair chance of
me and the bike ending up in different places coming down
the Ridgeway ;-)

If it had been a leisure ride I would have worn a cotton hat
which would have been substantially cooler and probably
prevented the sunburned neck. As to being "got at" by
Liddites, well, I've just had to get used to it. And
remember how many poeple hereabouts have been converted by a
sane presentation of the facts and an expose of the gross
distortions used to build up a "problem" big enough to fit
the scale of the preconceived "solution."

Guy
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Tony Raven said:

Despite my conversion to helmetless road riding I am still
persuade of the merits off-road. The sorts of accidents
there are much more within the parameters of helmet
design, falling off is far more frequent and there are no
cars around, just trees, scratchy bushes and rocks.

I feel the same way, but then again I go into MTBing with
the attitude that if I don't fall off a few times I'm not
trying. The last few offroad segments I've done have been on
the Brom or the Streetmachine and I was just cruising along
where I'd be pushing limits on the MTB. There's off-road and
there's Off-Road, I don't see much point for a hat for the
former, but always wear one for the latter.

Pete.
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