😀🚲Jun 19, 2023

Never let your government get away with claiming that #bikeHelmets are "the first rule of bike safety".

Rule number one is infrastructure, and the 2nd is air+brakes+chain mechanical soundness of the bike, upright geometry of the bike, traffic awareness, ride with fingers on your brake levers and having practiced emergency stops, twenty is plenty... Helmets are for stunts or a footnote to "don't fall on your head" rule that applies to walking moreso than biking.

Show threadJef Poskanzer
@enobacon I've taken about equal numbers of falls while biking and walking, and every time my childhood judo training kicked in and kept my head off the ground. There's an abbreviated version of the training that is just falls, no throws, and it really ought to be mandatory for schoolkids.
Jun 19, 2023 at 5:18pmWeb
Show threaddr2chaseJun 19, 2023
@jef @enobacon I am not sure it has anything to do with judo training, because I seem to do a good job of not falling on my head w/o it. Usually some combo of feet, hip, shoulder, forearm. At least one fall on ice I had time to decide if I should use palm of hand or forearm, and (correctly) chose forearm.
Show threaddr2chaseJun 19, 2023
@jef @enobacon of course the people who habitually fall on their heads will be underrepresented in this sample....