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I have just sent off for a helmet mounted mirror, partly because an average week’s riding includes town centre roads (food shopping) and the A603, a single carriageway road with 50mph traffic including eighteen ton lorries. If anyone is seriously interested I will post a description of how useful it is. I wrote the above in answer to to two people's comments, but re-post it here in case it is not accessible for everyone else.

I have just sent off for a helmet mounted mirror, partly because an average week's riding includes town centre roads (food shopping) and the A603, a single carriageway road with 50mph traffic including eighteen ton lorries. A few years ago my right shoulder side tendon (supraspinatus) was totally torn, too close to the shoulder for repair surgery. I (slowly) learned to use all the other muscles around the shoulder to compensate... I hope you too will be able to adapt. If you are interested I will post a description of how useful the mirror is.

I have just sent off for a helmet mounted mirror, partly because an average week's riding includes town centre roads (food shopping) and the A603, a single carriageway road with 50mph traffic including eighteen ton lorries. If anyone is seriously interested I will post a description of how useful it is.

People do ridicule cyclists for wearing helmets though They certainly do! I remember being mocked with shouted abuse for wearing a helmet (I had been after one ever since I saw Americans wearing Bell helmets some time before) on Maryhill Road in Glasgow in 1976. Somebody brought one back for me after a holiday in the USA.

You are correct, I was commenting on what the author said, not responding to Mr. Blackbird. Using the threaded view clearly shows replies versus separate comments. We are all entitled to our opinions, which is all I was giving in response to the article. I was also indeed only commenting on the Grenadier vehicles and the “wannabe Land Rover” term and not on the company or Jim Ratcliffe personally.

"My father undertook post mortems and attended coronors inquests until his retirement and early death. He saw the riders who died in accidents. He built up decades of observed experience. He made us wear a helmet." That is the very definition of observation bias. Did he also do post mortems on people who had died from obesity and diabetes because they didn't ride a bike? If so, he would have seen massively more of them than cyclists.

Don't know about you but when I've been hit by a motor vehicle I've fallen off my bike, and wearing a helmet intended to protect me if I fall off has mitigated my injuries.

They do exist, but they're expensive and they look something like this:- https://www.freepik.com/free-ai-image/war-zone-with-tank_67396907.htm

What a marvelously apposite name for someone taking on helmet-related cases.

700, 1000 and 1400 lumen flash modes. How to annoy the feck out of the International Space Station. The steady beams have only been increased to 650, 950 and 1350 lumens, respectively. Maybe increased run time would have been better.