Today we did a training ride to Southwold. We rode from our homes and met at Henstead church at 9.30am and surprise surprise Paul had a new cycle helmet. After much nagging from Ina he had decided to wear one to keep her quiet. Now we just need to persuade Carl to wear one! We made our way to Southwold it was a lovely morning and we arrived in Southwold at about 10.20am not bad going we thought. We stopped for a coffee in the town and Lesley joined us for a while. We rang Beach Radio and they kept mentioning where we were so we had a few people hooting us on the way home. Unfortunately on the way home a friend of Jims who had joined us for the ride got a puncture. Paul and George stopped to give him a hand and the rest of us continued to ride on and stopped at Cedar Cycles.
We had a good look round Cedar Cycles while we were waiting for the others and finally Carl bought a cycle helmet! Hooray!
Cedar Cycles have kindly agreed to donate to us a variety of spares for the cycles and support us on our venture. They had a look over the bikes that we had with us and gave us lots of good advice and tips which was much appreciated as well as pumping up most of ours tyres which apparently were too flat! They have also agreed to advertise what we are doing from their website. So many thanks to them.
We continued our ride and finally got home in the early afternoon. We had a great time and the weather was glorious and not too many sore bums so we must be getting better! Chez.
1 comment:
It's great that you're getting on your bikes. It certainly worked for me. The figures support cycling - regular cycling, Danish style, not too far, not too fast, nearly halves the death rate, see http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/160/11/1621
Bike helmets are different. The figures don't show that they work - helmet laws have stopped a lot of people cycling and have done nothing for head injury rates, see Robinson DL. No clear evidence from countries that have enforced the wearing of helmets. BMJ 2006;332: 722-5. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7543/722-a. It appears that helmets break easily, but don't absorb the impact, see the engineers quoted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet. A broken helmet has simply failed. Nagging Paul and Carl is unlikely to do anything for them and may well discourage them from cycling.
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