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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Broken collar bone, the classic.

    Sorry if i came off rude, i am just so over people claiming that every kind of cycling is dangerous and all that can save you is a helmet.

    I mentioned in another comment that there is a dutch study that finds the helmeted rider to be more than 25 times more likely to end up in a hospital. 25 times more likely. Obviously roadies and MTBers. I am absolutely not saying people should stop road or mountain biking, even that is not all that dangerous and practitioners don’t all end up dead or crippled sooner or later.

    But if a person is just casually cycling without a helmet, they are doing much more for their safety than those sporty riders with helmets. Somehow this then always gets countered with “i know someone who fell on his head while stationary and is now being spoonfed by his loved ones. No, he didn’t have clips / clipless pedals”. Made up bullshit in 99.9% of cases, i have seen this in almost every helmet topic i have read.







  • the religiosity with which people proselytize helmets is misplaced.

    It feels very much religion like, but also an online phenomenon only. IRL the helmet discussion goes like this for me: “You don’t wear a helmet?” “No.”

    The topic coming up is super rare too, while on every picture of a cyclist without a helmet on the internet you got all these comments from helmet fundamentalists going nuts over it.




  • Bought one about two weeks ago. Usually i like having a paper map on my cycling trips, but on long ones it’s getting too many maps, so i didn’t bring any. Then i met some italians with a map and next day i bought one myself. I think it’s much better to see where you are at and how you move than on a phone.

    Also kinda like the “scenic routes” marker in the michelin maps (although that’s also on their online maps). It was a midi pyrenees map, but i have already ridden out of it, going to send it home.