rcd@opus.UUCP (05/21/84)
I got to wondering just how many people use helmets. In two days this
weekend, around Boulder, CO, I saw 118 cyclists total; 32 were wearing
helmets. That's about 27%. It's significant, but not great. Would anyone
from another area care to count for long enough to get a reasonable number
and post what you see?
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...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine. Dick Dunn
{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303) 444-5710 x3086jeff@dual.UUCP (Jeff Houston) (05/22/84)
Dick Dunn noted that about 27% of the cyclists he saw were using helmets.
This seems to be about what I noticed this past weekend when I rode the
Davis Double Century. Over the course of 200 hundred miles I rode and
talked with a large number of cyclists, and about 1 in 4 wore some type
of protective head gear. The most popular helmet that I saw was the new
Bell helmet - the all black model, the V-1 (I think - correct me if I'm
wrong). Next most popular were the Bell Biker, Skid-Lid, and Brancale.
Still most of the crowd I was riding with went helmet-less, but thats
the bike racers mentality for you.
For the record I finished the ride in 10 hours 12 minutes, just missed
the 20 mph barrier, darn it.
Jeff Houston
Dual Systems Corp., Berkeley, CA
{ucbvax,ihnp4,cbosgd,amd70,zehntel,fortune,decwrl}!dual!jeff