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

I'm not surprise, more than half the nodder in London take even more risk when riding because they're under the illusion that they're 'safer' due to wearing helmet, day-glo jacket, glove etc.

This^

This always annoys me, how do they know this? I think it's more psychology, the helmet is fucked so the presumption is that your skull would be just as fucked.

seems pretty logical.. something designed to absorb impact to any degree will come out a lot better than your skull.

I never normally wear a helmet, but week before last when i got taken off my bike, i basically braked with my face along the road! The initial impact was completely on my face, so i cant see how the head injury i recieved would have been very different had i been wearing a helmet or not. Luckily i was wearing one at the time.

The visor area on my helmet was completely sanded down where it slid along the tarmac. If this had not been there, it would have been my entire face as opposed to just my jaw/mouth/nose which had made direct and prolonged contact with the road. Probably would have lost a fair few teeth etc

So basically it saved my face from being completely scraped off.

Just about..!

Meh

i will wear one more frequently in the future, but most of the time in terms of actual serious accidents/fatalities i cant see how they would be much use in the majority of accidents.