Action Lad
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Yesterday, after a news report that said Dallas is the only city in TX to require helmets on cyclists, I struck out to see what it was like. I hadn't been helmet-less, since...probably when I was a kid. I did my normal 26-mile route down to Plano and back, including the Sam Rayburn service road. Ahhhh! It was a good feeling to have the wind blowing across my head. I sweat buckets, so it was so nice not to have a lid swimming all over my head. From now on, though, I'll probably have a UV cloth, or a special cooling rag on my head, but when I'm not in Dallas looks like I could stay helmet free. I can already hear the blowback from helmeteers and their cautions, but know this battle has been raging in my domed head ever since I started cycling only a few inches above the pavement. On an upright, or even most bent bikes, I'll have something on, but not on a permanently self-balanced, low racer.
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