I have said before that I often wear a helmet. With the weather improving, my recumbent back on the road, light evenings (no need for a headtorch) and the roads clear and dry, I have been leaving the plastic hat behind.
The best bit is the ability to scratch my head when one of the poxy insects which infest the Chilterns around Cholsey lands on it :-)
I freely apologise to anybody to whom I said a helmet was not uncomfortable. Mine is not bad, but cotton cap is infinitely better and does just as good a job of keeping the sun out of your eyes.
And one less vote for compulsion, if TRL are watching.
I freely apologise to anybody to whom I said a helmet was not uncomfortable. Mine is not bad, but cotton cap is infinitely better and does just as good a job of keeping the sun out of your eyes.
A much, much better job on a recumbent, ME. I bought my first proper cycling cap at the CT Birthday Rides last year and I love it.
-- Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address) <url:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/> "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine
A much, much better job on a recumbent, ME. I bought my first proper cycling cap at the CT Birthday Rides last year and I love it.
Bugger, actually I didn't write that. I wrote IME, not ME, and CTC, not CT. Evidently I still haven't quite got to grips with the shortcut keys in the Thunderbird spellchecker (I automatically hit alt-A to add a word to the dictionary, but alt-A is "replace all"😉.
-- Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address) <url:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/> "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine
I freely apologise to anybody to whom I said a helmet was not uncomfortable. Mine is not bad, but cotton cap is infinitely better and does just as good a job of keeping the sun out of your eyes.
Yup, having maintained for years to all (including myself) that there's no real comfort difference I found out I'd been kidding myself. The chinstrap and the sweatiness on warm days, especially spinning slowly up big climbs, really does downgrade the riding pleasure.
Pete. -- Peter Clinch University of Dundee Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Medical Physics, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
I freely apologise to anybody to whom I said a helmet was not uncomfortable. Mine is not bad, but cotton cap is infinitely better and does just as good a job of keeping the sun out of your eyes.
Yup, having maintained for years to all (including myself) that there's no real comfort difference I found out I'd been kidding myself. The chinstrap and the sweatiness on warm days, especially spinning slowly up big climbs, really does downgrade the riding pleasure.
Pete.
Then on the descent one can't get the wind in the hair.
This is my main reason for not using a helmet and always has been. I started using one when I was touring in places where one had to use one but here in the UK I usually choose to leave the lid at home.
