She might be a great downhiller rider but this is why natural selection still has it’s place:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7843559.stm
What a dumbass!
you Brits have a strange sense of humor!
Are you familiar with the phrase tosser?
Are you familiar with the phrase “old news”?
Just remind me where I stated when it happened.When it happened isn’t the important part,what is is that it can happen to even the top riders with far superior handling skills to the majority of us.
Better?
To be fair the clasp on her helmet broke during her warm up. Maybe she thought she was back in blighty re-riding on the wrong side of the road - though probably she just overcooked the corner. I have heard it was her 1st road ride - and evidently she says she will just stick to training off road now.
You should ease up on her a little I know we have just a few (due to success of the track program & miss Read on the MTB circuit) but she is a British Cycling World Champion.
I still do most of my training rides with out a freaking helmet - somehow we managed about a 80 years at the TdF before helmets…(however helmets have saved my life and I always wear one in group rides).
I hate helmet Nazi’s.
I hear what you are saying Chip but we also used to think that smoking was good for us.
Sure, and it it legal to smoke - or not smoke 
.
But not in public places, I believe.
Not all of us think safety laws like this are progress
even those of us that think smoking is gross and stupid =)
Some of us, a select few, still celebrate freedom, especially the freedom to kill yourself.
But not in public places, I believe.
No I am with you, Jack. Certainly freedom of choice is a right and should be, it’s the extent of which you impose that right on others. i.e. kill yourself in a private place alone if your actions will not harm those you leave behind or have to clean up behind you. Would you do it in front of your children?
By freedom to kill yourself I was more referring to choose to smoke or ride a bike without a helmet or drive a car.
Not so much actually shoot yourself in the mouth
=)
. Would you do it in front of your children?
By freedom to kill yourself I was more referring to choose to smoke or ride a bike without a helmet or drive a car.
Again, it’s the extent of which you impose that right on others. i.e. if your actions will not harm those you leave behind or have to clean up behind you.
Are you familiar with the phrase tosser?
wow you really are a genius, try minding you own business for a change Forrest.
Just remind me how answering a post YOU sent to MY thread could be construed as not my business?
Thanks for seeking out yet another of my threads just to refer to me as a Brit, I have nothing further to say to a troll like yourself. Good day.
It’s amazing how quickly opinions on helmets have changed. As recent as 2001, many of the riders in the TDF (even in the TTT) did not wear helmets.
http://www.imvite.com/video/Tour-de-France-2001---Jan-Ullrich-crash-/t/6568787
Having had a severe head injury ( from which I am now pretty much recovered ) after being hit by a vehicle in 2005 while wearing a helmet, wear one. It might not save your life, but it stacks the odds in your favour.
Any sort of head injury is nothing I would ever wish on anyone, even my worst enemy.
Just remind me how answering a post YOU sent to MY thread could be construed as not my business?
Thanks for seeking out yet another of my threads just to refer to me as a Brit, I have nothing further to say to a troll like yourself. Good day.
All I can do is remind you what an imbecile you are, “MY threads” get real, and HTFU, wanker!
I wonder if the driver is going to sue her? seems like a pretty reckless piece of riding to me.