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'Cycling body withdraws support for events that encourage the use of helmets'

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  1. Tom
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    @amir: "Helmet compulsion can be quarrelled over elsewhere."

    I expect most people worked out their position on Spokes' decision within the first couple of pages of this thread. The rest is an unframed debate on helmets. As the people this most affects we deserve better than to do this to ourselves. If we really want a helmet debate, let's break it down into the various issues - the research, the physics, the social pressures, the law, the threat of legislation etc. etc. and deal with them separately. I think the end result might be that we realise that there are no sides to the debate at all.

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  2. stiltskin
    Member

    Blessed are the peacemakers :)

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  3. Instography
    Member

    Tom's a cheese maker?

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  4. steveo
    Member

    Now that's a contentions statement! :D
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Single_Action_Army

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  5. Smudge
    Member

    "Now that's a contentions statement! :D"

    Only if you believe that the firearms licensing system is inadequate and the lenient sentencing of people who kill using firearms is directly encouraging a devil may care attitude towards the safety of the general public amongst other firearms users.... ah... no... that's cars again isn't it... ;-))

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  6. gembo
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    Dave - I would have imagined an event which promoted helmet compulsion would be some sort of competition where you put on different kinds of helmet and ran at pace at a brick wall

    it is amazing that we can fill such a long string with all this debate given the shortage of definitive data

    CHdot can you please put a lid on this string

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  7. chdot
    Admin

    "CHdot can you please put a lid on this string"

    Lid? string??

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  8. chdot
    Admin

    "
    I expect most people worked out their position on Spokes' decision within the first couple of pages of this thread. The rest is an unframed debate on helmets. As the people this most affects we deserve better than to do this to ourselves. If we really want a helmet debate, let's break it down into the various issues - the research, the physics, the social pressures, the law, the threat of legislation etc. etc. and deal with them separately.

    "

    Well that seems like a reasoned argument.

    Here's one I started earlier which takes things in a slightly different direction.

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  9. chdot
    Admin

    Spokes publishes new post on reaction + factsheet -

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7119

    Posted 11 years ago #

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