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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!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e25eb87$0$2534$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Should my son wear a cycle helmet? Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:39:30 +0100 References: <4aCdneFpYaC6KbjTnZ2dnUVZ8tGdnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk> <4e25c831$0$2937$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> <7568dda5-774c-458e-acf3-ea8b6c4616dc@ft10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Lines: 18 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: <7568dda5-774c-458e-acf3-ea8b6c4616dc@ft10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: a3e7e14b.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC==:AK?]f1jh0UF9Yg6^So:5nok4Z\ > Our household has never seen a bicycle helmet and that is the 100% > truth.

And you're dead proud of that, aren't you? "We'll have no 'instruments of cyclist oppression' in this house, no matter how much they might improve safety."

> I also see schoolkids riding home on my commute and it is very rare to > see any of them in a helmet either

And I bet the vast majority of them also cycle without front lights (when it's dark), with dark clothes, on pavements, and they don't signal or observe red lights.

Please don't pretend that their behaviour is about safety when you know it's really about being "cool"/rebellious/self-serving.