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

yeah, it hurts when i mash...

Bugger, not good. Still, it's a good excuse to laze around for a few days!

i hate not being on my bike...

In a famous tragedy, the then Prime Minister of the German state of Thuringia killed a woman with whom he collided. He was wearing a skiing helmet, she was not.

What's happened to your knee, Iain?

On road...

What am i doing wrong?

Falling Off.

i hate not being on my bike...

The more you rest the quicker you'll be able to ride properly again though.

Not riding properley appears to be the problem.

New avatar for Chainbreaker

Not riding properley appears to be the problem.

Not spelling properly appears to be the problem.

http://www.bikedock.com/custom/08mission/BMX_trike20_lp.jpg

This is why i posted in the Bikeradar thread you bastards...

Actually, Friday it was decided that a Trike was the way forward for me. Not a bad idea!

Until i can ride properly, i think body armour is in need - see the logic. Keep up people!

You need a beach cruiser trike dude:

Stable, and the ladies will love it.

Here's the weird thing - I would never consider wearing a helmet while skiing, but would not go without one when snowboarding.

For me it comes down to the likelihood of landing on my head - This has never happened in 30+ years of skiing, but happens every few days of boarding.

I'm quite into wearing a helmet when snowboarding, not because I feel very much safer, but because it keeps my head warmer than a hat. Unfortunately the same doesn't apply when cycling.

Incidentally, you stop falling over when you've finished learning how to snowboard. You probably fell over quite a bit 30 years ago when you were learning to ski, too, but time heals all wounds and all that.

EDIT: I hope you are still learning and I'm not patronising you here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TywLn7oOLA

see 2:41 for a possible solution

Or check this website:
http://www.tricycleassociation.org.uk/

You need a beach cruiser trike dude:

Stable, and the ladies will love it.

YouTube- Paris Brest Paris, 80s Highlights

see 2:41 for a possible solution

Or check this website:
http://www.tricycleassociation.org.uk/

So cool!!!

Well, riding PBP on a tricycle is cool, no matter what other people say.

My mate's been skiing since he was a kid, parents always made him wear a helmet as a kid and he just kept wearing one. He's always going off-piste and doing black runs so he says he feels he should wear one. Also he falls over doing stupid shit a lot. Just over Christmas he got avalanched on and hit his head pretty hard. He just text me last month saying he bought a new helmet with ultra warm lining and headphones built in so he clearly doesn't see it as a hindrance or an annoyance. I think it's because of that he also always cycles wearing a helmet. Thankfully he doesn't preach.

Always been a big fan of the Giro Xen - Good shape (comfy), vents aren't bad and it weighs little.
Of all the cycling lids out there, it also looks quite nice, at least in matte black.

Tp those of you with spherical bean-heads, I highly recommend it.

I've been boarding for almost 20 years. I just tend to put myself through a lot more when I'm boarding. My "every few days" comment might have been exaggerating a little.

15 years here. I still have loads of tumbles.

Keep meaning to buy a helmet :S

I want this one:

so I was reading this thread last night and then this happened today on Old St ... i did not hit anything, just the ground with a perplexed look on my face! I was wearing my new (5days) giro prolight.... before that i was wearing a tuffcap which is a joke really....

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDeJ7rLUYU

http://www.d3o.com/products.php?section=4
d3o is the future.
repost i'm sure.

Its not real flubber this is orange...

Like a non newtonian liquid amirite?
surprised they haven't put something like this into production earlier.

all the new MTB pads come made from this stuff