Never mind the nudity, where's your bike helmet?

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion ... -20100113-m6xo.html

Cathy Duder, the New Zealand police officer who stopped two naked cyclists at the flashy beach resort of Whangamata just before Christmas, let them off with a warning - not about the nudity but about the lack of protective clothing on their heads.

On the nudity front she was blase. "They were more shocked than I," she mused, though that's a little hard to swallow. The chaps were sober, after all, and must have known they were laying bare their privates for scrutiny. Yet the senior constable dismissed the nakedness as an innocent bid for ''total freedom''. The absence of headwear, though, that was serious.

The incident shows how eccentric NZ really is. I mean yes, it adds piquancy to the field of bike-seat erotica, from Alexander Waugh's observation that his great-grandfather Alfred was obsessed by "pretty girls on bicycles" to Paul Keating's preferred pejorative for investigative journalists as "bicycle-seat sniffers". Globally, though, it must principally be seen as a good fashion opportunity squandered, since cycling, you may have noticed, is suddenly chic.

This isn't just about the purist fixies (those uber-primitive bikes without gears or brakes derived from New York's West Indian courier tribes) versus sedate '60s ladies' bikes that now, renovated, outsell new ones. Suddenly there is a whole new world of cycle fashionistas - clothes, bags, accessories for self and bike including handlebar cup holders.

Helmets, however, are decidedly uncool. Many argue helmets save lives. But the opposing arguments are equally numerous and, actually, pretty plausible. Not only are proper randomised studies hard to come by - like, where are the volunteers? There are also unanswered questions about how helmets modify cyclists' behaviour, making them less likely (some say more) to take risks. Or how helmet-wearing relates to personality type and gender (the causality here being reversed).

But the point really is this. Countries with highest bike use and no helmet laws also have fewest bike fatalities - Denmark and the Netherlands being the most obvious. Copenhagen initiated the Slow Bicycle Movement, the non-lycra approach to cycling. There, 37 per cent of commutes and a staggering 55 per cent of all trips are by bike. In Sydney, where cyclists are routinely spat on and abused, it's more like 1 per cent, but rising.

In London I used to cycle everywhere, not at first from choice - though it did prove addictive - but because driving was like pushing slugs through mud, and the alternatives even more disgusting. I'm saddened to report I never cycled nude, or for that matter helmeted, but I did do it in peach suede stilettos, long diamante earrings, houndstooth miniskirt, fur-lined mittens and ankle-deep snow, sometimes all at once. Only for the snow was I stopped by police.

No such nonsense in Sydney. Arriving here we were advised to quit cycling, much as they tell you to move to the burbs to procreate. (Why children have this special claim to mind-numbing boredom I've never understood although perhaps, again, the causality is inverted; it's the tedium that aids conception.)

"Nup," they shook their heads sagely. "No one cycles here. London, sure, people have manners. Not here. Much too dangerous." And for a while - OK, a decade - I caved in. Sold the bike, played safe. As a mother you feel obliged to stay more or less alive.

Now I've thought again. Not about survival, about cycling. And not just as exercise - twice round the park with the lycra legions then fossil-fuel-it home for breakfast - but as transport. I like streets, real world, feeling purposeful. I also like those little bike-logos, strewn round the streets like welcome mats. They change nothing, legally, except how it feels on that fragile, whizzy machine. And, it finally dawned, only if people do it, will people do it.

Plus - and this is key - it's fun. Exhilarating, even, to arrive at the opera or the formal meeting with raised pulse, no parking worries and zero emissions. It has a rakish, adventurous quality - not nude, but close.

Imagine my surprise then to be recently stopped by police. Not for being nude (which I wasn't) or even for riding on a footpath without appropriate signage (which I was). "We're cracking down on cyclists without helmets," said the coppers, writing my details into their notebooks.

A true road warrior would have checked their credentials. How did I know they even were cops, not petrol-head thugs on a road-rage revenge binge? But I was fully occupied not coming back with some kind of kamikaze quip. "Cracking down, officer? On cycling without helmets? You kidding me? What about cracking down on our third-generation neighbourhood smack dealers over there? Or the local housebreaking fraternity?"

The best way to encourage cycling is enhancing safety, but the best way to do that is to increase numbers. Circular argument. Fining cyclists won't help. Cycle lanes will (instead of promises); stopping the gas-and-telco guys leaving long, tyre-grabbing road scars; smoothing kerb crossings that are routinely the size of the Tamarama escarpment; giving priority at lights. Then maybe your standard cyclists will behave more like homo sapiens and less like, well, Tony Abbott. But next time you're tempted to nude highway cycling, remember, the roads are to share. Like the sign says. Cover your load. Fines apply. Mine eyes dazzle.

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没关系的裸体，在哪里你的自行车头盔？
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凯蒂Duder，新西兰警察谁停在华而不实旺海滩度假村2裸体骑自行车在圣诞节前，让他们过一个警告 - 关于裸体，而是对防护服在头上不足。

在她面前裸露偷着乐。 “他们比我更震惊，”她沉思着，尽管这有点难以下咽。章是清醒的，毕竟，而且必须知道，他们揭露审议的二等兵。然而，高级警官被解雇作为一个完全自由的无辜''申办裸体''。头饰的情况下，虽然，这是严重的。

该事件表明，新西兰的确是偏心。我的意思是，它添加了从亚历山大沃的观察辛辣的自行车场座位情欲，他的曾祖父是由阿尔弗雷德“自行车玉女”痴迷者到基廷首选为“自行车座位嗅探器调查记者贬义” 。全球范围内，但是，它必须被视为主要是一个很好的方式浪费了机会，因为骑自行车，你可能已经注意到，突然别致。

这不仅是对（那些尤伯杯无原始自行车纯粹fixies齿轮或从纽约的西印第安信使独舞制动器）与稳重六十年代女士的自行车，现在，翻修，卖得新的问题。突然有一个全新的周期时装界新的世界 - 服装，箱包，自我和自行车车把杯架，包括配件。

头盔，不过，断然不酷的。许多人认为，头盔挽救生命。但反对的意见也同样很多，实际上，相当有道理的。不仅是正确的随机研究来之不易 - 比如，志愿者在哪里？还有如何修改单车头盔的行为解答的问题，使他们不太可能（有人说更多）承担风险。或如何头盔，身穿涉及人格类型和性别（这里的因果关系被颠倒）。

但问题确实是这样的。自行车最高的国家，也没有使用头盔的法律也有伤亡最少的自行车 - 丹麦和荷兰是最明显的。哥本哈根开始的慢自行车，非运动莱卡办法骑自行车。在那里，37占百分之通勤和占所有人次百分之55的惊人自行车。在悉尼，在那里的单车经常随地吐痰和滥用，它更像是百分之一，但上升。

在伦敦，我到处使用周期，而不是在从第一选择 - 尽管事实证明，上瘾 - 而是因为驾驶是想通过推泥蛞蝓，以及替代品更使人讨厌。我痛心地报告我从来没有循环裸体，或就此戴头盔，但我没有做桃绒面高跟鞋，长迪亚曼泰耳环，犬牙超短裙，毛皮衬里手套和脚踝深的积雪，有时一次全它。只为雪是我被警察拦下。

没有在悉尼这种胡扯。到达这里，我们被告知退出循环，就像他们告诉你移动到芳邻生育。 （为什么儿童这个特殊声称头脑麻木厌倦我从未尽管也许理解，同样是颠倒的因果关系，它是单调，艾滋病的概念。）

“国统纲领”，他们一本正经地摇摇头。 “这里没有一个周期。伦敦，当然，人们的举止。不在这里。许多太危险了。”有一个时期 - 行，10年 - 我塌陷英寸出售的自行车，发挥安全。作为一个母亲你觉得有责任留下来或多或少地活着。

现在，我已经想到了。不是存活率，骑自行车。而不仅仅是运动 - 两次轮与莱卡军团然后化石公园燃料回家吃早餐 - 而是作为交通工具。我喜欢街道，真实的世界，感觉针对性。我也喜欢那些小自行车标志，布满圆垫一样欢迎的街头。他们改变什么，在法律上，除了它是如何脆弱，whizzy机的感觉。而且，终于明白，只有当人们这样做，将人们这样做。

加 - 这是关键 - 它的乐趣。令人兴奋的，甚至到达歌剧或与正式会议上提出的脉搏，没有停车的忧虑和零排放。它有一个放荡，冒险质量 - 不是裸体，但接近。

想象一下，然后我惊讶的是最近被警察拦下。没有被裸体（我不是），甚至在没有适当的标志行人骑（我是）。 “我们打击自行车头盔，又不说：”铜板，写我到他们的笔记本电脑的细节。

真正的出差会检查他们的凭据。我怎么知道他们甚至是警察，不是汽油，在道路上头暴徒，愤怒的报复狂潮？但我不来，完全占领了一些一种讽刺的神风回来。 “打击，官无头盔骑自行车？？你开玩笑吧？怎么打击我们的第三代附近向下拍击那边的经销商，还是当地的民宅兄弟？”

最好的办法是鼓励骑自行车是加强安全，但最好的办法就是增加人数。循环论证。细化自行车无助。自行车道会（而不是承诺），阻止气体和，电信球员离开长，轮胎抓道路伤疤;平滑是例行的塔玛拉玛悬崖大小路边过路处;在灯光给予优先考虑。那么也许你的标准自行车将更像智人而不像，那么，亚伯特。但下次你诱惑裸体公路自行车，请记住，道路分享。说一样的迹象。封面负载。罚款适用。我的眼睛里耀眼。

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水汪塘 发表于 2010-1-14 17:06

                               
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It is really dangrous to ride a bike on the road without helmet.