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What an amazingly emotive old chestnut this subject is! Apart from the fact that cyclists live longer than other people - full stop. You are statistically more likely to receive serious injuries while playing tennis; people walking or driving suffer more head injuries than cyclists etc. . .
So you should definitely wear a cycle helmet - you should put it on the instant you get off your cycle and walk to your car, especially if you are going to drive to the gym and play tennis!
You will if you are interested enough find appropriate links to actual peer reviewed research on the CTC the national cycling organisation's web site. -
Don't mess about twist it till it snaps then replace it. You may have to remove your freewheel/cassette for this. So be prepared.
Course if it is just lose and the wheel runs ok; if it aint broke don't fix it. -
I loved this one, great music, brilliantly shot just a shame they're french ;-)
even more of a shame about the racism. I suppose you chose your parents?
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Best thing to do with bike thieves IMO. is chain them by the neck to a cycle stand until they die! Probably improve road safety no end, I expect they are the main ones who turn left across you, park in cycle lanes, open doors on you and can't see cyclists on roundabouts.
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Totally agree with brickman, any person going for a motor vehicle license should ride a bike first at least.
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Being cautious as a new comer here, but I would like to comment on the post that the "Seldom Killer" made regarding "road tax".
I have to say that his/her post contains a couple of misnomers and misses a couple of points IMO.
The first is that actually it is called "vehicle excise duty". Road tax was abolished by Winston Churchill in 1926. You do not pay for the road, you pay to be allowed to use a motor vehicle on a public highway.
A public highway is a place were the public are allowed to go by right rather than privilege. This is how you can practice your basic right of freedom of movement. You have as much right (subject to certain rules) to exercise this by any method.
The crown (aka government) do not publish any figures about what tax pays for which thing, nor are they obliged to use any particular revenue for any particular purpose.As a matter of academic interest however, I seem to recollect a couple of years back reading a report published by the RTF (road transport federation) - I as well as a cyclist have been a road transport operator - which having collated the figures, claimed that the total cost of all road building and maintenance was more than met by vehicles over 7.5tonnes alone.
To summarise the point I'am making here; you have the right to use a public highway to exercise your right to freedom of movement and the idea of who pays what to provide a "road" (I forget the exact term) - public highways are not necessarily roads- is a complete "red Herring".
A point that may be of interest to cyclists in particular is that, at a guess, probably at least 85% of cyclists have at least one motor vehicle parked at home. Therefore they are probably getting a worse deal than most on their use of them. This of course is in complete agreement with the "radical" notion that Seldom killer mentions.
Now I come to look at this, I seem to be saying the same as him but in a different way! So here is another take on it.
Long live the cyclist!
As a Falcon the main triangle at least is pretty certainly 531 - rear triangle could well be also as would the forks.
Looks like a "traditional" 72 parallel light touring/clubman frame to me - mudguard clearance and slightly longer wheelbase.
Should give you a very comfortable ride if you fit the original 1 1/4" (28-32mm) tyres, (which are actually faster on ordinary roads anyway).
Heresy to say on here no doubt, but it would be a real shame to see that turned into a fixie.