I see kids today riding bikes with so much padding on they look like Darth Vader. Helmets, knee pads, elbow pads, etc. I was talking with a friend I have known since the third grade and we carried golf clubs, baseball gloves, bats, balls, hockey sticks, school books and a myriad of other things on our bikes.
We never once wore a helmet. If we fell, we got back up on the bike and kept going. Kids today are pansies.
“We never once wore a helmet. If we fell, we got back up on the bike and kept going. Kids today are pansies.”
I never wore a helmet either, and neither did one of my classmates who fractured his skull in a bike accident. Never the same, sadly. I tend to be Darwinian in most matters, but things like oh.....brain injuries and even death are generally to be avoided.
This is a rather weird thread that is beginning to glorify high risk behavior. Understand that I’ve spent most of my life driving airliners around, so perhaps the reader will understand why I followed the checklists and used my safety belt/shoulder harness when I was supposed to. I hear there are folks that think it’s cool to forget about the safety belt and drive like knucklheads (seen ‘em, dodged ‘em, can’t tell if they’re straight though (don’t care actually)).
Every one of you is gonna’ die soon enough. It is perpelexing as to why some seem to want to rush things along. Don’t ever confuse risk taking behavior with male responsibility. They are not the same. One is a virtue, and the other is a psychiatric disorder. I’ll leave it to you to decide which is which.