Gordon Ramsay recently appealed to cyclists to wear helmets, after his own helmet prevented an accident from being fatal to work recently. In many ways I love it – I get to enjoy the weather, I avoid the unbearable crowding ofI’d been worried about sharing the road with cars, but so far, it seems my fears were somewhat unfounded – because it’s the
It’s as though some cyclists, in their effort to take up adequate space, have chosen to pretend that roads aren’t dangerous.
There’s also that much peddled stat suggesting that you’re safer if you ride without a helmet because drivers give you a wider berth as they go past .