Where a helmet while overseas
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Where a helmet while overseas
Postby jemo27 » Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:01 am
What has been your experience been with going overseas while cycle touring in relation to wearing a bicycle helmet?
I'm heading overseas soon and plan on wearing my helmet just feel safer with it on and because cycle touring involves cycling on roads with traffic going quick.
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby il padrone » Wed Jun 26, 2013 4:03 pm
Other cyclists wearing helmets are mainly road racing types on training rides (only about 80%) and travelling cycletourists (about 40%). Many such recreational cycling enthusiasts are happy to ride with no helmet. People just riding about, in cities towns and on country roads virtually never wear a helmet.
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby scirocco » Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:42 pm
Back on for descents and flat riding.
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby biker jk » Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:50 pm
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:09 pm
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby Marx » Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:14 pm
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby Nate » Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:04 am
tootling around a city on a hire bike (london, dublin, Montpellier) & where the drivers are REALLY polite, cautious & observant - no
downhill (AT) 75km/h - yes
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby il padrone » Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:15 am
That's just the thing though - I can get all of those things in one day of touring (like today). Seeing as I'll need the helmet for part of many days I may as well carry it on my head rather than having it swinging from the bars or trying to find room to pack it in the bags.Nate wrote:When climbing - no
tootling around a city on a hire bike (london, dublin, Montpellier) & where the drivers are REALLY polite, cautious & observant - no
downhill (AT) 75km/h - yes
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby Nate » Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:25 am
oh yeah of course - you gotta lug it aroundil padrone wrote:That's just the thing though - I can get all of those things in one day of touring (like today). Seeing as I'll need the helmet for part of many days I may as well carry it on my head rather than having it swinging from the bars or trying to find room to pack it in the bags.Nate wrote:When climbing - no
tootling around a city on a hire bike (london, dublin, Montpellier) & where the drivers are REALLY polite, cautious & observant - no
downhill (AT) 75km/h - yes
but in 34deg sun & ascending at 9km/h - much better on the bars than the head.
HUGE difference in overheating with it on
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby Meditator » Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:01 am
Also all the french cyclists wear helmets. Not those in the cities so much but the club cyclists love their bike gear. Most tourers i saw wore helmets as well. MIght as well.
Going up a mountain yes it gets hot i am inclined to think that having something on the head actually protects you from overheating. It was intense when i was in the pyrenees and i admit i was pushing my bike a fiar bit so would walk from shade to shade and i didn't suffer so much at all. Unlike the poor german woman who tried to race up the col and nearly got heatstroke after an exceedingly shot period of time because she couldn't adjust her cycling behaviour to the conditions. Also you have to drink a lot in such conditions. and frequently cool yourself down if you are feeling like you are cooking.
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:17 am
it's about 2/3'rds of club cyclists who wear helmets when they aren't obliged to.... Certainly not allMeditator wrote:Also all the french cyclists wear helmets. Not those in the cities so much but the club cyclists love their bike gear. Most tourers i saw wore helmets as well. MIght as well.
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby DavidI » Tue Jul 23, 2013 12:46 pm
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby clackers » Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:40 pm
Um, with that level of decision making, Meditator, you may want to simply walk around all day with that helmet on, just in case!Meditator wrote: I wera a helmet because i am prone to falling off. This time i bought a new bike and on hte first day i noticed the handlebars weren't fixed enough and i tried to kick the wheel straight while still on the bike.
(Just jealous of what must have been a terrific holiday! )
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Re: Where a helmet while overseas
Postby Meditator » Tue Jul 23, 2013 4:20 pm
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