Quote Originally Posted by spazzdog
anybody notice on any other pro rides where the boys generally ditch their helmets?
Unless I'm remembering wrong, the TdF has been sort of the last holdout -- most of the other national federations (except maybe the Italians?) have required helmets for a while now.

Of course, I picked up that tidbit in reading up on Casartelli's accident, and it still took them 10 years after the fact to change the rules. Sigh.