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Brun-
Do you still ride at 30mph in the door zone?
Boom
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Given narrowness of London roads I'd be surprised if you braked everytime you were overtaking a car stopped momentarily in the middle of the road? Good to avoid taking risks but helmets seem to be helpful for the (hopefully few) times where you do and things don't work out. Also can't really stop other people from behaving like morons - got doored when filtering past a taxi stopped right in front of a traffic light at the point where lights had just changed; turns out they weren't stopped for the light.
mashton
youClown
I recall whizzing down Crystal Palace hill 10 years back, when a parked-up pizza guy opened his car door - impacting my shoulder as I was doing about 30mph. The force of the blow spun me 180 degrees around and sent me flying backwards, until the back of my head smashed into the tarmac. There wasn’t much left of my helmet. Until that day, I often rode without a helmet. Now I always wear one.