"Martin Bulmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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I forgot to throw my helmet in the car when I went for a drive with the non-cycling wife. I hadn't forgotten the bike, luckily, so I ended up
doing
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the 30 mile ride home lidless. As the sun was out, and I am a slap-head, I dug my sun hat out of the panniers. This is the first lidless ride since I resumed cycling 11 years ago, so as I rode I pondered the comparisons. First, the "head-heater" thing. I found the hat seemed warmer because
there
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was no air flow over my head, but I didn't get sweat in my eyes. It felt
odd
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to feel insects impacting on my forehead both with & without the hat. The hat was good for up to 24 mph, at which speed it attempted lift-off. This isn't too much of a problem for me, my average speed for the ride was
13mph,
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so I only had to remove the hat for the downhills. When the hat got
sweaty,
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it got a bit looser too, and the critical lift-off speed fell accordingly.
I
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don't feel that I was any more careful without the helmet, so the security factor doesn't seem to affect me. I reckon I'm pretty careful anyway. My main problem was that I really missed my helmet-mounted mirror. I kept looking up into the brim of my hat. What is worse is that on a couple of occasions I caught myself assuming that there was nothing behind because I couldn't see anything in my mirror! (1).
"Martin Bulmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
I forgot to throw my helmet in the car when I went for a drive with the non-cycling wife. I hadn't forgotten the bike, luckily, so I ended up
doing
Quoted message said:
the 30 mile ride home lidless. As the sun was out, and I am a slap-head, I dug my sun hat out of the panniers. This is the first lidless ride since I resumed cycling 11 years ago, so as I rode I pondered the comparisons. First, the "head-heater" thing. I found the hat seemed warmer because
there
Quoted message said:
was no air flow over my head, but I didn't get sweat in my eyes. It felt
odd
Quoted message said:
to feel insects impacting on my forehead both with & without the hat. The hat was good for up to 24 mph, at which speed it attempted lift-off. This isn't too much of a problem for me, my average speed for the ride was
13mph,
Quoted message said:
so I only had to remove the hat for the downhills. When the hat got
sweaty,
Quoted message said:
it got a bit looser too, and the critical lift-off speed fell accordingly.
I
Quoted message said:
don't feel that I was any more careful without the helmet, so the security factor doesn't seem to affect me. I reckon I'm pretty careful anyway. My main problem was that I really missed my helmet-mounted mirror. I kept looking up into the brim of my hat. What is worse is that on a couple of occasions I caught myself assuming that there was nothing behind because I couldn't see anything in my mirror! (1).
Sounds like an example of risk un-compensation.
Is that a smiley? Or should I reply as if it is serious? (Things Hamlet never said.)
