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Math Problem
« on: June 04, 2009, 05:46:28 pm »
1 bike + 2 babies + 2 child seats + 1 dad + 0 helmets + 1 busy road crossing.

Can't make this add up.  Anybody want to help?  Kids looked protected in those sun bonnets, though.  SPF = Stupid Protection Factor?
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Re: Math Problem
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2009, 08:36:36 pm »
Someone recently came over from Europe or Asia where bicycles are just normal everyday vehicles where you don't have to put on armour to ride one?
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Re: Math Problem
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2009, 08:59:34 pm »
Certainly I've seen many videos for SE Asia, India all the way through to Vietnam where that is normal and if it isn't a bicycle its a 50 cc Honda.   I have no problem with it...although I think doing it here in the land of the Lincoln Leviathan is a bit foolhardy.
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Re: Math Problem
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2009, 06:27:24 am »
Maybe.  I think we've become real safety nannies about a lot of things but I don't think two strapped in babies on a bike should be helmetless.  I'm not their father so I should probably mind my own business.
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Re: Math Problem
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2009, 02:47:43 pm »
If the babies' heads did not extend beyond the height of the bike seat, maybe it would be safer for them without the added weight of a helmet on their heads (can't really fall to the front, and the bike seat should have padded side supports for if the bike topples to the side).  I'm not sure, just thinking out loud.

Now a toddler would get no head protection from the seats and should be helmeted.
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