David Veloz
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David Veloz
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If you have a problem with this, fine. I'll just block you and we'll be done.
I don't presume to question the veracity of that claim. But I am angry at how often a discussion about bicycles online turns into a scolding session about helmets rather than a demand for safer roads, better infrastructure, reduced speeds, and harsher penalties for drivers. Cars kill people.
Your helmet won't matter. We know this because so many cyclists wearing helmets have died this way. I was hit and my helmet shattered into pieces. Because I lived doesn't mean my helmet saved me. You say you have family members whose lives were saved by helmets. I'm glad for you and for them.
I don't know why you have a hard on for "errors". I did not equate my statement that helmets do nothing to protect cyclists with the industry quote saying helmets aren't designed to protect you in a car crash. But I did say helmets do nothing to protect if you're hit by a car going highway speeds.
Helmets then become the issue, rather than drivers and infrastructure and a car-centric legal system that absolves drivers of responsibility whenever there's a scapegoat they can point to (ie, a dead, helmetless cyclist).
I'll give you a scintilla of the benefit of the doubt in case you're not paying attention. In this country, cyclists are blamed, in the press, for their own deaths when they're not wearing helmets. This, despite the fact that many cyclists who were wearing helmets are also killed in traffic.
Good lord. I didn't say they were. I AM saying if you're hit by a car going more than 30 mph while on your bike, your helmet isn't going to helmet you. I'm not playing word games. But when a cyclist is killed while not wearing a helmet, they're blamed for their own death.
I don't argue with people online. I stand by what I said.
A quote from the head of Giro in 2020:
Right. I don't want anybody blaming my death on my not wearing a helmet. I want all the hate aimed at the driver.
What!? That would be so cool.
I've done it before. Takes years to get good again!
Dude, that sounds so fun! I still have this Telecaster I bought when I was 20.
Lol. Let's go with that.
I'm a guitarist squarely in the school of "I don't want to get too good, then I'll sound like I work at Guitar Center." So 50 years after learning how to play I still sound like I did at 18.
That's too bad! As a film guy, if I'm noticing things in a movie like lighting or editing or a performance, then the movie isn't working! I want to be able to enjoy it. If I were him, I'd want to be able to let it go and just get into it, but I'm sure his ears are so well trained...
Better fueled, but I'd actually been sick all week and wasn't feeling great when I started. But yeah, I do feel better.
It's so strange. We'll be talking in the kitchen and the boy will be playing some chords in the other room and she'll wince and yell out "It's an F#!! It's a diminished chord, not a minor!"

I thought I was musical until I met her.
I mean it's purely anecdotal, but I felt far better after a 50 mile gravel ride two days ago than I did after a 45 mile one in June.