Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

I'm sorry to break this to you, but you're going bald.

Oh Hercules Poirot!

Wearing a helmet could help hold your hair in place.

This is based on a study that I am too lazy to find the link to... so shut it.

I have a small female friend in seattle that wears a childs helmet when she cycles with pictures of bears and unicorns on it.
This seems to work far better on drivers as far as giving her more room is concerned than when i didn't where I helmet in Seattle.

Well said, Roxy. Part of the reason I wear a helmet is because I love bambi and I don't want him to have to fly over here and remind me who I am in the hospital.

If you're in love with a cartoon character Nhatt maybe it's too late to be worrying about brain damage.

If you're in love with a cartoon character Nhatt, maybe it's too late to be worrying about brain damage.

I know I'm animated, but I wouldn't call me a cartoon character.

Bambi couldn't fly anyway. That was Dumbo.

Roxy does the helmet protect his spine? What happens if your boyfriend lose his legs or arms? Helmets don't protect against these potential consequences of a collision, which in my opinion are as likely to happen as massive brain injury...

I know that roxy is a longstanding community member, has co-organised the EHBPC and is generally a nice person, but how on earth did she get away with starting a helmet thread?! I thought that was punishable by death.

Roxy does the helmet protect his spine? What happens if your boyfriend lose his legs or arms? Helmets don't protect against these potential consequences of a collision, which in my opinion are as likely to happen as massive brain injury...

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That's a ridiculous point to make. The fact they don't protect your arms legs or spine is not a valid reason to go without one.

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That's a ridiculous point to make. The fact they don't protect your arms legs or spine is not a valid reason to go without one.

I think the point he's making is that you're as likely to paralyse yourself by injuring your spine in a crash, or put yourself in a wheelchair by damaging your legs and yet nobody complains about us not using motorcycle style spine protectors or even arm and leg protection.

Wear your helmet in bed it may stop your STI's

always wear a helmet. even on a quick ride just to the shops. I really don't care if its uncool or whatever. The argument is simple: I never heard that anyone had a disadvantage from wearing one but I heard of many cases where people might have been dead or badly injured if they would not have worn one. Same goes for front brakes. I can ride brakeless but why take the risk? And of course its not just about me. Wife, family, friends...

I think the point he's making is that you're as likely to paralyse yourself by injuring your spine in a crash, or put yourself in a wheelchair by damaging your legs and yet nobody complains about us not using motorcycle style spine protectors or even arm and leg protection.

While that is a valid point, I disagree with a bit there, because for instance if you've lost your leg during an incident, at least you're not brain damage, personally I would rather lose an arm or leg than be brain damage and not be able to function properly, or at all.

the spine is a different thing thought.

Full body protection ftw! But make sure you wear gloves.

I think the point he's making is that you're as likely to paralyse yourself by injuring your spine in a crash, or put yourself in a wheelchair by damaging your legs and yet nobody complains about us not using motorcycle style spine protectors or even arm and leg protection.

Thankyou.

always wear a helmet. even on a quick ride just to the shops. I really don't care if its uncool or whatever. The argument is simple: I never heard that anyone had a disadvantage from wearing one but I heard of many cases where people might have been dead or badly injured if they would not have worn one. Same goes for front brakes. I can ride brakeless but why take the risk? And of course its not just about me. Wife, family, friends...

My had two friends break their jaws because they were wearing a helmet from minor crashes, without one they would have had a couple of scrapesand walked away feeling sorry for themselves.

always wear a helmet. even on a quick ride just to the shops. I really don't care if its uncool or whatever. The argument is simple: I never heard that anyone had a disadvantage from wearing one but I heard of many cases where people might have been dead or badly injured if they would not have worn one. Same goes for front brakes. I can ride brakeless but why take the risk? And of course its not just about me. Wife, family, friends...

Have your read Oliver's (excellent) post? Or looked at those statistics from Oz and the point I made earlier about torsional brain injuries?

Doing things on the basis that "you never heard that x but I heard that y" where x and y are received wisdom as opposed to published studies or other scientific data is as likely to drive you to the safest course of action as flipping a coin.

What happens if your boyfriend lose his arms?

He'll have difficulty doing up the strap on his helmet.

you guys crack me up. Where are the usual "bike radar's thataway", the yawns, the "utfs"? Why should one person get respect for dredging the tired helmet debate up again while another gets ridicule? Hypocrites.

It's interesting you've cycled for so long roxy and yet apparently only just considered the implications you outline here seriously enough to post about them. But you're saying nothing new whatsoever, it's all been covered before with similar points, many many times, in the catch-all thread for this most unresolvable of debates.

If people want to wear helmets they will, if they don't want to they won't. Until it's made law of course, which i do hope won't be as a result of some evangelical lfgss members' spearheading a campaign off the back of their recent epiphany, which they then ram down others' throats. That would be so much uncooler than just quietly getting on with wearing a helmet because you personally feel it's safer.

qft.

i guess it depends on how you fall. i fall with exreme skill so helmets aren't needed

You're bouffant/street urchin hair do would take most of the impact anyway Pip. ;p

I just wrote a long post then deleted it.

I'm going to go and make a cup of tea and see if their is a banana in the fruit delivery.

Last time I came off (came off properly that is, rather than throwing myself into a hedge because I got scared of riding down a hill brakeless) the doctor who checked out my head congratulated me for not wearing a helmet and said he didn't wear one either.

Unfortunately I can't remember if he went into any detail regarding his reasons for not wearing one because I had a bit of concussion.

haha! Bendix, thats great!

haha! Bendix, thats great!

Yeah concussion rules, concussion FTW!

I think i'm up to 5 now.....or was it 6?