Bike-safety groups take President Obama head on after ride without helmet.
BY David Saltonstall In Oak Bluffs, Mass., and Michael Saul In New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Perhaps President Obama didn’t want to look uncool on his bike ride Thursday, but his decision to skip the helmet had safety experts banging their heads.
Obama, on vacation with his family in Martha’s Vineyard, joined the First Lady and his daughters yesterday for a ride in Aquinnah, a town at the western, most rural end of the island.
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This is ridiculous. They are on a separated bike path with no cars obviously riding very slowly. What is it in America that makes people worried more about helmets than about riding safely?
seriously, MyrtleGuy.
If you need a helmet for the activity the people in the photograph are engaged in, you need a helmet to stroll along a beach boardwalk.
Hello everybody,
Few days ago I read this article:
http://adrianshort.co.uk/2009/08/24/456/
This makes very clear what’s the real issue about helmets, bike-gear and other stuff…
Very much recommended !
Peter, fresh from Belgium.
mofuka does keos and shit, you think he needs a helmet?
http://hellapixels.com/wpimages/trackobama.jpg
balla
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