Bicycles

[Halthron]

If you know anyone that rides a bike, please insist they wear a helmet.

I almost killed someone this afternoon because the idiot was weaving around on Roxas Blvd and swerved into my lane. He'll live (I took him to the hospital) but had he been wearing a helmet, the only serious damage would have been to my car. For lack of a couple of hundred pesos for a helmet, he now has a large hospital bill and an even larger scar on his head.

 

[Jason Ooi]

Are you serious?

 

[El Orans]

No bicycle helmet for me, thank you very much.

 

[pakman]

No bicycle helmet for me, thank you very much.

yes but riding a bike in those wide designated bicycle lanes in Holland is a lot different from weaving through downtown Manila traffic!!!! I'd want full body protection on top of a helmet!

 

[Halthron]

Are you serious?

Yes

 

[Jason Ooi]

Heavy traffic in Manila !!!!! Need double helmet

 

[Hammerhead]

6 posts and no-one's mentioned scuba helmets...whoops!

 

[pakman]

so do diplomatic plates get you off the hook if you run over local pedestrians or in this case bikers?

 

[El Orans]

yes but riding a bike in those wide designated bicycle lanes in Holland is a lot different from weaving through downtown Manila traffic!!!! I'd want full body protection on top of a helmet!

Don't know about Manilla but I've done my share of traffic weaving in Denver and England as well.

 

[Halthron]

Pak, I have certain privileges. Something like that would have come in handy had the guy been wearing the helmet cause I would have gotten out and kicked his ...