Comments on: Half-wearing a helmet http://treadly.net/2008/06/11/half-wearing-a-helmet/ Work is just something I do between bike rides Fri, 04 May 2012 07:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Treadly and Me http://treadly.net/2008/06/11/half-wearing-a-helmet/comment-page-1/#comment-9080 Treadly and Me Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:48:14 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/06/11/half-wearing-a-helmet/#comment-9080 <p>Nik confirms Chris L's hypothesis: it's about minimal compliance. But gee, wouldn't it be good if we didn't have to worry about compliance at all?</p> <p>While I still think the easiest place to carry a helmet is on the top of your head, I'm actually not nearly as dogmatic about it as I seem to sound in this post.</p> Nik confirms Chris L’s hypothesis: it’s about minimal compliance. But gee, wouldn’t it be good if we didn’t have to worry about compliance at all?

While I still think the easiest place to carry a helmet is on the top of your head, I’m actually not nearly as dogmatic about it as I seem to sound in this post.

]]> By: Nik Dow http://treadly.net/2008/06/11/half-wearing-a-helmet/comment-page-1/#comment-9061 Nik Dow Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:15:07 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/06/11/half-wearing-a-helmet/#comment-9061 <p>I'm someone you may have seen with a helmet dangling from the handlebars. The sole job of my helmet is to save Mr Plod from the trouble of issueing me a fine. You will also see the helmet on my head when I'm riding in places where police are common and vigilant (in the CBD for instance). The clip is always done up but so loose that I can on and off the helmet easily.</p> <p>So as soon as I leave the CBD and find myself travelling along the Yarra or Canning St etc, off comes the helmet.</p> <p>It's all about maximising my helmet-free riding while minimising the amount of fines I have to pay.</p> I’m someone you may have seen with a helmet dangling from the handlebars. The sole job of my helmet is to save Mr Plod from the trouble of issueing me a fine. You will also see the helmet on my head when I’m riding in places where police are common and vigilant (in the CBD for instance). The clip is always done up but so loose that I can on and off the helmet easily.

So as soon as I leave the CBD and find myself travelling along the Yarra or Canning St etc, off comes the helmet.

It’s all about maximising my helmet-free riding while minimising the amount of fines I have to pay.

]]> By: Treadly and Me http://treadly.net/2008/06/11/half-wearing-a-helmet/comment-page-1/#comment-1312 Treadly and Me Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:12:21 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/06/11/half-wearing-a-helmet/#comment-1312 <p>Interesting hypothesis D.I. Hielke, but I actually saw this guy and his two mates riding: this was the only helmet between the three of them and it wasn't being worn. Personally, I think it's being kept because it makes its owner look like a cool risk-taker.</p> <p>I'll admit that having this mildly amusing photo prompted me to write on a topic to which I otherwise rarely give further thought.</p> <p>I really find the helmet on the handlebars look amusing more than irritating—but I'll agree that ninja cyclists are more of a worry, especially where they leap out from the shadows and endanger me!</p> Interesting hypothesis D.I. Hielke, but I actually saw this guy and his two mates riding: this was the only helmet between the three of them and it wasn’t being worn. Personally, I think it’s being kept because it makes its owner look like a cool risk-taker.

I’ll admit that having this mildly amusing photo prompted me to write on a topic to which I otherwise rarely give further thought.

I really find the helmet on the handlebars look amusing more than irritating—but I’ll agree that ninja cyclists are more of a worry, especially where they leap out from the shadows and endanger me!

]]> By: eccles http://treadly.net/2008/06/11/half-wearing-a-helmet/comment-page-1/#comment-1311 eccles Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:38:46 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/06/11/half-wearing-a-helmet/#comment-1311 <p>Trade you the pissweak light for the halogen-bright led on the helmet coming the other way? I swear I'm going punch the next one into the lake at Darling.</p> Trade you the pissweak light for the halogen-bright led on the helmet coming the other way? I swear I’m going punch the next one into the lake at Darling.

]]> By: Hielke http://treadly.net/2008/06/11/half-wearing-a-helmet/comment-page-1/#comment-1310 Hielke Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:28:01 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/06/11/half-wearing-a-helmet/#comment-1310 <p>Maybe I have watched far too many episodes of CSI, but the helmet in the photo looks as if a big chunk fell off it just that morning. The cut is fresh and bright white, whereas the rest of the styrofoam looks like it is from mid 80s to early 90s. I would say the guy (m/f) is just hanging it off his handlebars because it is now useless, but should the cops pull him over he needs to admit this half-helmet as evidence to back up his story.</p> <p>What I find worse than fence sitters though, is people with the absolute tinniest of tiny and weakest-ass "lights". Which makes me wonder, after reading this blog entry, what would be the profile of the most irritating rider? A young male rider, on a trackbike with no brakes, with a pissweak pinhead sized single LED light attached somewhere low on the rear stay, and his helmet casually swinging of the handlebar?</p> Maybe I have watched far too many episodes of CSI, but the helmet in the photo looks as if a big chunk fell off it just that morning. The cut is fresh and bright white, whereas the rest of the styrofoam looks like it is from mid 80s to early 90s. I would say the guy (m/f) is just hanging it off his handlebars because it is now useless, but should the cops pull him over he needs to admit this half-helmet as evidence to back up his story.

What I find worse than fence sitters though, is people with the absolute tinniest of tiny and weakest-ass “lights”. Which makes me wonder, after reading this blog entry, what would be the profile of the most irritating rider? A young male rider, on a trackbike with no brakes, with a pissweak pinhead sized single LED light attached somewhere low on the rear stay, and his helmet casually swinging of the handlebar?

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