"rw" wrote in message
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Tom Nakashima wrote:

Yup no helmet, except when riding sponsored rides where helmets are
required.
There's a group (purist) of us cyclist that have been riding since the
60's, we ride without a helmet.
We tend to train on mountain roads with very little traffic.
None of us have never had a accident that resulted in a head injury.
We've also been around and around with the cycling community about riding
without a helmet so we've heard everything already many times over.
The law states here in California that anyone age 18 and under must wear
a helmet.
Yes, planning to hit 54 someday,

You should go all the way and ride in this event:

http://www.zombietime.com/world_naked_bike_ride_2006/


I'm laughing,
on my 50th B-day, my cycling friends told me they were going to take me to
someplace special.
So they blind-folded me and brought me unknowingly to a place called Lupin
Resort in the Santa Cruz Mountains, CA We have ridden by the nudist resort
many times when training in the hills, and jokingly I said we should all
visit there someday.
All I could hear was giggling and snickering and a lot of voices....even
splashing.
As they were singing happy-Bday to me, they removed my blindfold.
Everyone was stark naked except for me....so I said; "Oh what the hell and
shed my clothes too!"
Sorry no pictures on this one, but I'll have to say, some of the woman
cyclist half my age young were in great shape.

More OT: Jean, a gal I ride with sometimes (yup, half my age young) when
climbing hills on a bike, she makes this heavy breathing sound as if she's
having sex. Despite her great bod, I enjoy riding along side or behind her,
but I'll have to say, it's very difficult at times getting out of the saddle
to climb...men can't hide it as well as women can. ;-)
-tom
-tom