Comments on: Member Profile: Vote Beth Mort! http://www.diamondinthebasalt.com/member-profile-vote-beth-mort/ Hip Chicks in the 509 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:41:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Diamond in the Basalt » Ladies Bike Mechanic Classes from P2P http://www.diamondinthebasalt.com/member-profile-vote-beth-mort/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Diamond in the Basalt » Ladies Bike Mechanic Classes from P2P Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:44:29 +0000 http://www.diamondinthebasalt.com/?p=148#comment-280 [...] may remember our friend Beth Mort, the Outreach Coordinator for Pedals2People, a community bike shop organization that is taking up [...] [...] may remember our friend Beth Mort, the Outreach Coordinator for Pedals2People, a community bike shop organization that is taking up [...]

]]> By: Tom Crisp http://www.diamondinthebasalt.com/member-profile-vote-beth-mort/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Tom Crisp Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:50:30 +0000 http://www.diamondinthebasalt.com/?p=148#comment-121 Beth is inspiring me to get on my bike and make this town a better place. I'm on my bike almost every day, following the rules (OK, running reds when it's clear, very bad, I confess), and really pleased by the courtesy I'm offered by the motorists...It Works! Beth, thanks SO much for your organizing and promoting of bike events in Spokane. Keep on peddling! Beth is inspiring me to get on my bike and make this town a better place. I’m on my bike almost every day, following the rules (OK, running reds when it’s clear, very bad, I confess), and really pleased by the courtesy I’m offered by the motorists…It Works! Beth, thanks SO much for your organizing and promoting of bike events in Spokane. Keep on peddling!

]]> By: Richard Keatinge http://www.diamondinthebasalt.com/member-profile-vote-beth-mort/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Richard Keatinge Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:23:28 +0000 http://www.diamondinthebasalt.com/?p=148#comment-116 The trouble with bike helmets is that the figures don't show that they work - helmet laws have stopped a lot of people cycling and have done nothing for head injury rates, see Robinson DL. No clear evidence from countries that have enforced the wearing of helmets. BMJ. 2006 March 25; 332(7543): 722–725. doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7543.722-a. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16565131 (Robinson's work uses the best scientific methods, all available control groups and so on.) It appears that helmets break easily, but don't absorb the impact, see the engineers quoted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet. A broken helmet has simply failed, and the widespread anecdotes on the theme of "a helmet saved my life" seem to owe more to wishful thinking than to science. As for "a car ran over my head", see the pro-helmet site http://www.helmets.org/smush.htm; if a car goes over your head, I'm sorry to say you won't be sitting up and praising your helmet. The only known connection is that helmets have strangled a few young children who were wearing helmets while playing off their bicycles. I no longer wear a helmet and haven't pressed them on my children. I do check that their brakes work and that they have a good idea of the rules of the road. At my moderately advanced age it's far too dangerous not to cycle - regular cycling, Danish style, not too far, not too fast, nearly halves the death rate, see http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/160/11/1621 All-Cause Mortality Associated With Physical Activity During Leisure Time, Work, Sports, and Cycling to Work. Andersen et al, Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:1621-1628. Bicycling is good for health, but helmets don't seem to be. I'm sorry I can't vote for Beth Mort, because nobody's invited me to vote in Spokane, but, apart from the helmets, it seems she's got a great program. The trouble with bike helmets is that the figures don’t show that they work – helmet laws have stopped a lot of people cycling and have done nothing for head injury rates, see Robinson DL. No clear evidence from countries that have enforced the wearing of helmets. BMJ. 2006 March 25; 332(7543): 722–725. doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7543.722-a. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16565131 (Robinson’s work uses the best scientific methods, all available control groups and so on.) It appears that helmets break easily, but don’t absorb the impact, see the engineers quoted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet. A broken helmet has simply failed, and the widespread anecdotes on the theme of “a helmet saved my life” seem to owe more to wishful thinking than to science. As for “a car ran over my head”, see the pro-helmet site http://www.helmets.org/smush.htm; if a car goes over your head, I’m sorry to say you won’t be sitting up and praising your helmet. The only known connection is that helmets have strangled a few young children who were wearing helmets while playing off their bicycles.

I no longer wear a helmet and haven’t pressed them on my children. I do check that their brakes work and that they have a good idea of the rules of the road.

At my moderately advanced age it’s far too dangerous not to cycle – regular cycling, Danish style, not too far, not too fast, nearly halves the death rate, see http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/160/11/1621 All-Cause Mortality Associated With Physical Activity During Leisure Time, Work, Sports, and Cycling to Work. Andersen et al, Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:1621-1628. Bicycling is good for health, but helmets don’t seem to be. I’m sorry I can’t vote for Beth Mort, because nobody’s invited me to vote in Spokane, but, apart from the helmets, it seems she’s got a great program.

]]> By: Alli Kingfisher http://www.diamondinthebasalt.com/member-profile-vote-beth-mort/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Alli Kingfisher Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:11:56 +0000 http://www.diamondinthebasalt.com/?p=148#comment-114 I love Beth - she is one of my favorite people in Spokane. I love Beth – she is one of my favorite people in Spokane.

]]> By: Local Philanthropy Heroes http://www.diamondinthebasalt.com/member-profile-vote-beth-mort/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Local Philanthropy Heroes Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:48:46 +0000 http://www.diamondinthebasalt.com/?p=148#comment-113 [...] blog Diamond in the Basalt does a pretty good job of justifying this nomination. You can vote in favor of Beth for a $10,000 [...] [...] blog Diamond in the Basalt does a pretty good job of justifying this nomination. You can vote in favor of Beth for a $10,000 [...]

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