Making a choise

I was taking a bicykle ride to day. I went to a (reasonably close) shopping mall. It is a crisp, sunny Octoberday. The leafs has started falling down, making it sound like riding through Rice Crispies. The chestnuts on the track made it feel like riding over cobblestones.

When I was riding back home, I overtook a man on a sportsbike with a reflexwest and a bicyklehelmet. A little bit further down the track, I came to a stop at a streetlight. Then this man with the bicyklehelmet comes up to my side and starts yelling at me because I did not weare a helmet!

Now- it's obligatory by the law for children under 15 here in Sweden to weare helmets when bicykeling. But I'm well over 15, and I have never used a helmet.

Yes, helmets do save people from headinjuries. But! resent studies has showed that injuries to the spinal cord rises just as much as the helmet bearers headinjuries diminishes. A part from helmet bearers taking larger riscs. But mostly because they use the wrong form of helmets. Have you taken a look at what shape the bicycle helmets have?

Anyway, I flipped the bird at the man and went on my way.

I'm making a choise!

I have been through and lived through a number of bike accidents over the years. I have had broken ribs, AC Contutions (ouch- that one hurted big time - for a long time), not to mention all the soft tissue injuries and burn wounds.

But I have never hurt my head!

So what should we do? Legislate of people riding bikes having to use full football gear?

As a matter of fact, tens of thousands of people dies every year falling down while walking! What about them?

I think we should have a law forcing our politicians to allways weare a helmet. You know- just for their protection.

I'm making a choise!