Re:Woman Rides Bicycle to 183.9 MPH, a New World Record
by ryandrake on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @10:35AM
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> They used to be unheard of in skiing unless you were a racer and now are probably worn by most--especially kids.
Yea this one surprised me recently. I learned to downhill ski as a kid in the 80s, and never once saw anyone with a helmet. I obviously gave it up when I moved to Florida, but now, decades later I’m living somewhere I can go skiing again and was shocked to see so many people (even adults!) wearing them. The group from work I was with was equally shocked that I wasn’t wearing one. They were also shocked that I was wearing jeans and not one of those hundreds-of-dollars skiing outfits, but whatever. I mean I guess helmets make sense but it just feels unnatural, as unnatural as bicycle helmets (which we also did not wear back in the 80s) feel to me. I’ll never get used to wearing one of them either.
Yea this one surprised me recently. I learned to downhill ski as a kid in the 80s, and never once saw anyone with a helmet. I obviously gave it up when I moved to Florida, but now, decades later I’m living somewhere I can go skiing again and was shocked to see so many people (even adults!) wearing them. The group from work I was with was equally shocked that I wasn’t wearing one. They were also shocked that I was wearing jeans and not one of those hundreds-of-dollars skiing outfits, but whatever. I mean I guess helmets make sense but it just feels unnatural, as unnatural as bicycle helmets (which we also did not wear back in the 80s) feel to me. I’ll never get used to wearing one of them either.