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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!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2ee9dc$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 17:22:52 +0100 References:  <993l3uFe90U1@mid.individual.net>    Lines: 21 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:  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=V@W8:;MZNiB;dNhMZVkA7FYjZGX^207PK` 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%. > > Shocking, it's almost as if they don't know cycling is supposed to be > dangerous.

How come you wear a helmet then, Guy?