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Kess, I completely agree! Nicely put.

Lovely, very inspiring!

Poloroid?

I'm a bit late with my comments on this post, but the helmet discussion drives me nuts sometimes, so I just had to react.

I'm Dutch and live in Berlin. I have never heard of any adult who fell off his bike and hurt himself, without the involvement of another person (or alcohol). Accidents do happen, but only when people on bikes are not following traffic rules or people in cars are not paying attention!

Especially in car-minded countries like Germany and the US, people are pointing at the cyclists to wear helmets and protect themselves, instead of looking at the real issues like ignorance about correct traffic behaviour and the arrogance of drivers!

Children in the Netherlands get traffic lessons in school, which makes cycling a normal mode of transportation for them, as opposed to the extreme sport attitude often I see towards cycling in bike-hating Berlin.

Kudos to Anna and Teresa for their great invention, but unnecessary if people would stop participating in this 'safety' craze and start using their brains.