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From: salex@rice.EDU (Scott Alexander)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: USCF HELMET RULE
Message-ID: <156@dione.rice.EDU>
Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 13:04:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 13:04:17 1986
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Summary: more respect from drivers w/ helmet

I have worn a helmet since I first started to consider bicycling as more
than just a way to get to a friends house when Mom wouldn't drive me.  My
experience in commuting in large cities (Houston, Phoenix, and Ks. City),
though, has reinforced this decision.  I found that drivers tend to show a
greater respect for a bicyclist wearing a helmet than one not.  There seems
to be a mentality that w/o a helmet, I am playing, whereas, with a helmet I
must be someone serious.  *Breaking Away* seems to have strenghtened this.

Scott Alexander
Rice University
salex@rice.edu