Proper maintenance of the bicycle? Bicycle wheels are immensely strong they support my fat body no problem. They do not just collapse out of the blue for no reason.
You folks remind me of those college kids I see jaywalking, "If I don't look he will not hit me". You have to operate with the idea, "He sees me, and he is going to try and run me down, so I had better be ready". John Coyle wrote: > Having once, many years ago, gone over the handlebars when a front wheel > collapsed, landing on my face and spending three days in hospital as a > result, I would prefer to wear a helmet when riding, whether or not I was > required to do so. > Note that, in my case, I was on a quiet country road, no other vehicle was > involved, and I was riding at a reasonably sedate pace, correctly positioned > on the road. No amount of care or caution could have prevented that > accident, as far as I can see, negating some of the arguments put forward in > this thread. > It's really like wearing a seat-belt in a car: a helmet won't prevent every > fatality, but it will reduce the severity of injury in a statistically > significant number of cases. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
