Kit and Python... I agree - so easy to "sort" one's hair out once at work.
If I don't have time for a shower when I get there, I have "fudge" which I scooch through my hair after I have wet it from water in the bathroom.
Easy. (Actually, just talking about 'products' - I have just bought one called 'CurlzRok' and thats neat - wipe is thinly through my longer locks and my hair goes wild and unruly - love it!)
Veronica, absolutely in agreement with you about helmet choice. The wearing of a helmet does not change or alter the cyclists ability or reality of being a cyclist. And I think of Le tour, and the hill climbs, where the lads have been allowed to throw their helmets away because it gets so hot... does that mean those in the Tour are not real cyclists...?
We have a cyclist here in the Bay who never wears a helmet - he's an older guy, probably into retirement now. He bikes long distances, though he does not come to our club (he would have to wear a helmet). If he had to wear a helmet, he would not ride. I understand he is claustrophobic... I'd rather see him ride than not at all.
Mimi, I also agree with you in that it costs us - and more than in just a crash and the attendant health/rehab costs. Children model themselves on adult behaviour and this is how I approach the topic with non-helmet wearing cyclists. You see, it is law here to wear helmets and I suggest that these people are modeling illegal behaviour to children. And also modeling to children that to break the law is ok when it suits you.
So it costs us in social attitude and 'un-awareness'.
We have many rights taken away from us in my country, and sometimes a government actually work FOR the people...
We must wear seatbelts in cars
We must travel our children in the rear seat of a vehicle unless there is no seat belt available there
We must not drink alcohol above the 'legal limit' and then drive a vehicle
We must never smoke cigarettes inside in public areas/facilities
We must wear helmets - on motorised and human-powered bicylces



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