Original Message: ----------------- From: Harry Schwartzman harryschwartzman@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 07:19:50 -0700 To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR] Helmets - Please
"Listers, Peter,
I'm sitting here reading Classics Rendevouz all day because I just cracked
my Femur. Can't move.
Peter, i hear what you're saying, and I know that the Cannibal didn't wear
helmets, Coppi didn't, Reg McNamara didn't. I know.
HOWEVER, Three years ago I spent three days in Intensive Care after my OT clipless pedal failed. I wasn't wearing a helmet. "
Yikes.. Harry, you're tempting me to say "Well if you WERE riding with
proper CR List Era quill pedals with toestraps (and buttons, you gotta hav e those, too) and Detto Pietros with or without cleats, you'd have been just
fine. Without the helmet! But I won't (I think I rather just did) and so rry about your accident.
Actually without talking about the safety merits of the things (OT), Coppi
most certainly DID wear a leather hairnet helmet but only on certain occasions. Why would that be I wonder? I think it was Robic who always wore one and it was his trademark when such things were considered very odd. Interestingly, Americans have always been into helmets.. those wonderf ul photos posted of California racing in the late 50s/early 60s shows EVERYON E wearing hairnets. They even made Dave Stoler wear one and jolly useful t oo when those Eye-Ties put a Silca into his front wheel. If I rode with Italians, I guess I'd wear one, too.
Peter Kohler Washington DC USA
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