(bicycle) safety is sexy, yo
Helmets January 4th, 2008Uh, yeah! Check out this cool site here about why wearing a helmet is HOT. Going helmet-less is NOT. Getting brain injuries from crashing with a helmet is just not really cool. At all. Of course, all the readers here are brilliant and already know this stuff (well actually I can think of one person I know who this doesn’t apply to because he never wears his helmet) but take a peak at this creative Safety is Sexy campaign so you can steal their well-thought material and use it on your meat head friends who don’t wear helmets.
Other stuff . . . well it’s pooring cats and dogs here. Too bad I have a recovery day. Rats!
January 4th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Is “yo” the new word for 2008???
xxxx, Huntress
January 4th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Its raining cats and puppies YO. Wearing a helmet is a really swell idea. I used to be bad about is so I don’t like to moralize but the do protect your head when you stack it Yo!
January 4th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Yo, I’m right there with you on the helmet issue. Took a low speed spill on Wednesday, but it was enough to dent my new Ionos…would have sucked if that was my head.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
yeah, safety first. i was soooo lucky a few years ago getting hit head on without one. actually it was my back that hit the windshield. a girl will do anything to protect her face when she’s having a good eyelash day. actually, the day started with a quick spin around the block and thought wouldn’t need one. wrong. luuuuuucky fo shizzle or the old adage that only the good die young. several people think i have brain damage due to not wearing a helmet that day when actually it’s just being a natural blonde, yo! LOL Good luck this year Martina and the VC team. all my best.
January 5th, 2008 at 7:26 am
I also suggest a brake on your fixed gear as well as a lid:
Because it’s not you: it’s the other people.
January 5th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Dang. That didn’t work.
Anyway, a teen cyclist was killed the other day riding his fixed gear in Santa Cruz without brakes or a helmet. Going down hill a FedEx truck turned in front of him and while they may not have collided, he hit his head and died.
I ride a fixed gear a lot, but with a helmet and front break, but it is so popular right now not to use safety gear that this was inevitable.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel has the story.
January 5th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
That sucks about the kid in SC. You always have to assume it’s going to happen, ’cause the one time you don’t…
I’ve managed to avoid all but 40 minutes of the storms so far — fingers crossed to keep the streak going tomorrow. Hope you’re still dry!
January 6th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Wearing a helmet is a personal choice except while racing and you guys professing that it could have saved this guys life is a joke. We do not know if it could have or not. Fabio Casartelli died wearing one so get over the fact that the kid could have been helped with one on. Maybe if he was travelling slower and being more attentive he could have been around today? I have seen the way some of these tools ride around there like the road is their’s. Now it is my turn for conjecture.
January 6th, 2008 at 8:56 am
I made no such assertion. You have layered your own prejudices on top of my comment, perverted it, and then attacked me for something I did not say.
Good job! Hope you feel better.
Ride safe,
Byron
January 6th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Conjectures aside, some facts need to be made clear.
1992 Olympic RR Champion Fabio Casartelli died as the result of a catastrophic head injury sustained after he fell while descending the Col de Portet d’Aspet in the 1995 Tour de France. He was not wearing his helmet at the time of the incident. There has been a difference of opinion as to whether a helmet would have saved Fabio’s life. No autopsy was performed.
Would a helmet have saved the lives of Fabio or the young rider in SC? We don’t know. What is clear is that helmets can reduce the risk of head injury, if used properly.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
i was watching the movie ‘footloose’ during the windstorm on saturday, and guess what kind of car kevin bacon drives? a yellow bug! perhaps that is old news to you, but if not, it served as some good 80s fun!
January 8th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Helmets are cool. And I have even seen some sexy ones. But what really makes ‘em sexy are the way the straps are hooked up! Ha, Hee, Ho!!!
January 17th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
As a surgeon who’s job it’s been to scrape extruded grey matter from the sculls of retards who have turned themselves into vegetables or corpses- please wear a helmet even if you are sure it’s not necessary for you. Glad this blog shows picture of a well know Europro wearing his. There is young local pro back who flaunts his helmet-less kit. As cruel as it sounds I’m glad he got dropped from his top tier team so that maybe his adoring fans might think not wearing his helmet has something to do with it.