"ryancycles" <ryancycles@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> My two cents worth!
> I think it's a valid argument that head injuries are less likely on a
> recumbent. I've never worn a helmet while riding a recumbent (or any
> other type of bike for that matter.)
> Since I've become a snowbird a couple of years ago I've been riding a
> DF bike down in sunny Venice Fl. I've run into a couple of bike clubs
> and was asked if I'd like to join, but helmets were mandantory. NO
> thanks, one of the great pleasures of riding a bike to my mind is the
> wind blowing through my non-existent hair. Could some one of the
> helmet proponents explain to me why in Holland, which has more bikes
> than any other country, no one wears a helmet? One would think that
> with their semi-socialistic government everyone would be required to
> wear helmets and body armor. Perhaps some common sense still exists
> there.
What you are now doing in Florida would not have worked very well in
weather
challenged Massachusetts, now would it? If I were you I would not crow
about riding a bike without a helmet. It just marks you as stupid! Dick
Ryan, meet Peter Clinch!
But does not the sun shine there in Florida? If you are hairless topside,
do
you not need to protect your bald pate from the sun? Hells Bells, you have
to wear something on your head, so it might as well be a bike helmet. But
I
prefer a horse riding helmet. These do not work on uprights because they
have a bill which prevents forward vision, but they work perfectly on a
recumbent provided you are seated more or less semi-recumbent.
The Dutch are some of the most stubborn folks in the world. To read a
history of that people will tell you all you will ever have to know about
them. I consider them to be poor pitiful crazy bastards who simply don't
know any better. The Spanish should have exterminated them when they had
the
chance some centuries ago.
One other thing ... the fact that old Harry of Lincoln, Nebraska agrees
with
you ought to give you pause. He is a world class dumbbell and one of the
most ignorant slobs that has ever existed on this earth. If I found that
he
ever agreed with me about anything I would run for the hills.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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