Title Nine catalog cover: oops!

[yellow]

Kind of along the same line...

A few years back, Bicycling had a cover photo of a woman walking her mtn bike through a creek, looking very stylish and like she was about to hop back on the bike...but in reality it would have been a bit challenging since the bike had NO PEDALS. She did have a helmet on, I guess to protect her from falling objects.

[Nanci]

That reminds me of a woman on a bike I saw last Friday. She was in a bikini, riding a cruiser bike, with a rack with lots of stuff, and her swimsuit was a sort of orange color that nearly matched her tan, so she looked naked from a distance, and she had this wild curly long orange hair, the same color as the rest of everything, like down to her butt almost, no helmet, and she's just going along out by this rock quarry in the middle of nowhere. So my friend and I leave to drive down to Clermont, and I see her, and we both say "I say her earlier!!" Barb had seen her out on my road on the way to my house, and now here we were back south, same level as the rock quarry but a good ten miles further east...Very strange.

I think I heard on a podcast that Title 9 uses a bike courier with one of those big trailer things to move stuff around between warehouse and stores. Kind of cool.

[hibiscus09]

I have to admit that I don't wear a helmet on my beach cruiser at Kiawah Island. I ride it on the trails and on the beach. I do, of course, always wear my helmet on my road bike except I didn't yesterday when riding my new trainer. This is definitely thread drift, but I didn't figure people wore them on trainers?

I have the Title 9 catalog. It made me smile to look at it after I read the beginning of this thread. I was thinking that perhaps her shoes are in her bag also.

I love Athleta's catalog!

[KnottedYet]

If a "trainer" is a stationary bike with no wheels, then no, I don't think folks wear helmets on those stationary bikes.

If a "'trainer" is a bike with wheels that moves, please put on a helmet.

[Lise]

If you could fall off your bike and smash your head on the ground, you should be wearing a helmet. Doesn't matter what kind of bike, or how slowly you're moving, or how short a distance it is. You could pull out of your driveway, and the guy next door could be mad at his wife and accelerate out of his driveway -- BOOM -- major head trauma. No bike ride (in which the bike is moving forward) is safe without a helmet. I heard an impressive number--that helmets prevent 80% of major head trauma.

My brain. It's not the best, but it's the only one I have!

[Selkie]

I'm amazed at the number of folks I encounter daily, who are riding bikes and not wearing helmets. I'd never ever get on my bike without putting on my helmet. Ironically, most of these helmet-less folks remember to put their IPOD on and blast it on HIGH. Hopefully, they won't take out any innocent people when they have that inevitable accident.

[hibiscus09]

Thanks about the trainer/helmet info -- it was my first ride and I wasn't sure whether people generally wear helmets on a trainer or not. Although the floor is covered with rubber, I did feel pretty far up in the air. I know people don't wear them on spin bikes or stationary bikes (LOL), but I was on a Cycleops I just purchased. I'll start putting my helmet on while on the trainer. I supposed it's best to simulate road riding conditions as best as possible anyway.