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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2eea0f$0$2938$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Saved by her helmet Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:23:41 +0100 References:  <993l3uFe90U1@mid.individual.net>     <%glXp.112485$fQ4.56408@newsfe16.ams2> Lines: 27 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <%glXp.112485$fQ4.56408@newsfe16.ams2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: d25c6ad3.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=0A_@XAEAmFETHJl0YRfECGYjZGX^207PK` On 25/07/2011 20:51, Simon Mason wrote: >> On Jul 25, 8:39 pm, "Just zis Guy, you know?" >>  wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 25/07/2011 09:02, Simon Mason wrote: >>> >>>> On Jul 25, 2:23 am, Phil W Lee  wrote: >>> >>>>> You will never encourage people to do anything by telling them >>>>> that it is dangerous. And increased numbers improve safety, so >>>>> anything that reduces numbers is likely to reduce safety. >>> >>>> Yes. Nobody wears a helmet in NL or Denmark and they are the >>>> safest countries to cycle in the world. >>> >>> Don't exaggerate. I believe the helmet wearing rate in Amsterdam is >>> a dizzying 0.3%. >>> > >> Ah, but do the American and British tourists count? > > I believe they are indeed the ones doing the counting, the Dutch don't > seem to give a toss either way.

Is it true that you wear a helmet, Guy?