The helmeted riders harried them, but did not press in too rashly.
In the morning mist, the lights from the barn across the way lit an eerie, jagged path for the wet black horse and helmeted rider.
It must have been six or seven hundred years old, and it was decorated with copper inlays of horses and helmeted riders, and fleurs-de-lys.
The scope of his wire-stocked assault rifle showed only a single, helmeted rider, straight and tall on the hovercycle, its caliche dust trail writhing behind.
Around the turn the noise opened fanwise unbearably, and the black bike and its helmeted rider were bearing down on them.
"We have studies that show that helmeted riders go faster."
That means a government advertising campaign could retrain drivers to make the opposite judgment: a helmeted rider deserves just as much space.
The top row has an unhelmeted figure on horseback riding behind a helmeted rider, possibly in pursuit.
The helmeted rider is armed with a spear and appears to have dropped his sword and shield.
Behind the helmeted rider lies a helmeted casualty, with a bird to his right.