Let's be clear, I've no issue with campaigns about helmets, so long as as much, if not considerably more resources goes to addressing the behavourial issues with cyclists and motorists cohabiting on roads.Broady":1aj3gfb2 said:An inch of polystyrene might not be much but I've completely smashed 3 helmets in my years riding and am pretty confident if I wasn't wearing them I'd be a bit worse for wear to this day.
Admittedly a bus running over your head there's not a lot you can do about but you've gotta do something.
And let's have no nonsense about segregation, it doesn't help, it hinders, because it will never be everywhere, and just fosters the perspective that cyclists should be anywhere but in the way of motorists.
In previous times, cyclists and motorists have been able to share the roads, without necessarily outright prejudice, the only thing stopping that being addressed is motivation and quick, demonstrable wins with statistics.
Addressing attitudes and behaviour is addressing the root cause, but it's largely an unpalatable proposition because people would actually have to consider their own attitudes, behaviour and prejudices, and when you've got horse's-arses like Clarkson, being retarded-for-pay, emboldering his pantomime-persona attitudes in mouth-breathers, you've got a significant proportion of the motoring public given encouragement for a position they're already predisposed to.
Problem being the opposing argument isn't really trendy, and Kev in his blinged out Corsa has glazed over anyways.