• I think there was a freak fault with that particular cats eye or something. I wouldn't be driving helmetless in a no-windscreen car though [although admittedly the windscreen didn't help her :( ]

  • I've driven 10s of thousands of miles in a car with no windscreen with just a cap and sunglasses. Not dead yet. The caps stayed on because we were wearing intercom headsets based on modified Peltor ear-defenders. They were also attached to the car by a lanyard, just in case. It was always embarrasing when you forgot to take the cap off before leaving the car. Mind you, the peak of Cycliste's cap always started lifting at speeds of over 80mph. If I went faster than that, Cycliste would tell me over the intercom system that 'The Hat Says No', which was code for 'slow down'. That's us in the silver car - it's difficult to tell from the low camera angle, but the top of the aeroscreen was somewhere between chin and nose height for me.

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