Peter, it is amazing when we find out we have done it wrong for all of those decades and yet we survived. I am still surprised that I am still alive sometimes. Then again I spent several years without a seatbelt in my car, I rode a bicycle without wearing a helmet and I admit I did drink and ride. I still find my assortment of hammers (I have as many as I have bikes) indispensable.Better put my bike up for sale then, I will be sad to see it go, I have only owned for 54 years, and never had a KLG plug let me down yet.
From what I have seen of the superanuated egg boxes the guys round here wear on rides they would do little to save a face forward crash. Not that I need an egg box I swore two things when I was 16 never ride a push bike again (I was raised on the Chiltern Hills and uncle had a push bike shop) and never wear short trousers again (De rigueur wear at infants school)Why would anyone wear a cycling helmet, I really can't see the point, it takes away all the excitement of an over the handle bars crash!
proven est in casuGood job you weren't at the Austrian Rally, short leather trousers were in proliferation.