What’s on your indoor training playlist?

“Who knows what would have happened if I hadn’t had it on, maybe I wouldn’t be here today," Can't argue with that tbf. And a quote for our sponsors? “One thing I know for sure, my helmet saved my life. Thank you Giro Cycling."

Ours were exactly the same. I was discussing this with somebody a couple of weeks ago when the news first broke and he made the interesting point that they're somewhat a victim of their own success. Your 3 and my 3 have rather than having a bike each have both shared 2 bikes which have been passed on to somebody else (well mine not yet, but they will as they're spotless). Islabike I'd see as similar - both companies having made high quality, durable products rather than following the usual planned obsolescence route thus cannibalising sales

I read a few issues of tyres blowing apart rims but they were due to non compatible tyres being installed so user error IMO.

If it was, she had the helmet on back to front.

That crack in the helmet is where it would have been protecting the base or her skull where it meets the spine. The back of the head and especially this area is a very dangerous place to have any hard impact. unprotected rear of the head injuries are more likely to be fatal than frontal or side impacts.

But, but, but... hookless were supposed to be easier to manufacture and thus would be cheaper. Isn't that what we were all told when they first came on the scene for road bikes?

People don't ridicule cyclists for wearing helmets, they ridicule them for making unsubstantiated claims about helmets because if they don't then the government will start to seriously think about mandating them.

That picture says a lot about them. Have Police Scotland handed out a single penalty for a close pass? Do either of the guys in the pic even ride a bike?

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Yep. I can only think of one story that was actually related to hookless issues and that was seemingly a chinese wheelset that hadn't built the wheel to spec. I think the depth of the hookless part was well out of spec. Every other story I have read is something that happened and the person was riding hookless and people just used it as a hook to hang their fears of hookless on with no proof. Plenty of pros ride hookless. Pogacar rode the SES 4.5 for years and they are hookless.