FLCC> helmets required for Bike to Work Day rides?

[Michael Ludgate]

Helmets are required in my group. No helmet. No ride. Although, I do keep a
couple loaners on hand, to save someone a trip into town :-)

I was first on the scene of a one person crash on Turkey Hill Rd several
years ago. A man on a road bike wearing one of those old fashioned leather
head bumper guards - looks like he hit a pot hole and went over the
handlebars - found him unconscious - they flew him out with a helicopter -
he was in a coma for awhile I heard later via the local EMT grapevine. I am
quite convinced he would have walked away if he'd been wearing a modern
helmet.

I'll be wearing a helmet on my "ride to work day" and I am hoping some
helmet wearing folks will join me as I pass through Ellis Hollow?
I posted my route here
http://canaaninstitute.org/bikeski/viewtopic.php?p=784#784

-Mike

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:48 PM, William Lodico <wlodico at stny.rr.com> wrote:

> Some years ago here in Elmira we had a rider show up several times
> for our Tuesday and Thursday rides without a helmet.  He refused
> offers to lend him one for the ride.
>
> No one wanted to be the policeman and tell him we didn't want him
> riding with us.  Eventually someone got the bright idea of telling
> him that if he crashed and smeared his brains on the pavement, we
> weren't stopping for him; why should we undertake that potentially
> nauseating chore, when he when he wasn't willing to take the little
> bit of the trouble to don a helmet?
>
> He never did get the helmet, but he did stop showing up for rides.
> Too bad.
>
> Bill L
>
> On May 8, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Peter Schrempf wrote:
>
> I'm only an interloper here.  However, as one who exists only because my
> bike helmet saved my life - I will not ride with anyone or in any group
> with an individual who is helmetless!  Sorry - I try to be tolerant
> of many
> viewpoints and ways of life - - but this ain't one of them!
>
> Peter Schrempf
>
> At 03:49 PM 5/8/2008, Vivian Hoffmann wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just got an email from a reporter at the Ithaca Journal about
> > Bike to
> > Work Day. One of his questions was whether participants are
> > required to
> > wear helmets. I don't see anything about this on the web page. Do
> > we have
> > a rule about helmets? Might be a good idea make one and put it on the
> > website and fliers.
> >
> > Vivian
> >
> >
> > Vivian Hoffmann
> > Applied Economics and Management
> > Cornell University
> > 1.607.316.7291
> > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/veh4/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
Michael J. Ludgate
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