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

Not4sale was taken off his bike by a car turning across traffic.

This happened almost directly outside my old flat.

I did not see the accident, but I did see the substantial amount of claret on the roads, and I saw the pictures that Not4sale posted up afterward- and met the man himself at the Bike and Kite Festival a little later on.

Now BlueQuin always derides helmets as "nasty foam hats", but I contend that Not4sale would have lost less cranial skin had he had a nasty foam hat on.

Someone has probably made the comparison already in one of the 50 pages before this one, but helmets are similar to gloves in a way- would they protect against a high speed shunt?

No, or the mitigation of the damage would be so minimal as to be undetectable, but at slower speeds they stop you having to get your girlfriend to wipe you arse (TM Hippy).

Thanks Neil - all cosmetic ... vv

*Just as gloves prevent minor wounds to the hands, cycle helmets are likely to prevent similar wounds to the head, but these are not serious injuries or in any way life-threatening. In the largest case-control study, 73% of head injuries did not involve concussion or other brain injury ]. Based on this wide definition, including all wounds to the head, helmet wearers will have lower rates of head injury. However, the case-control study evidence for other types of head injury is not as consistent as is often suggested. Although one frequently cited but much-criticised study claims that helmets reduce head injuries by 85%, all other studies predict more modest benefits, such as 39% or none at all (for some types of cyclists, e.g. cyclists over 15 riding on-road) .* from

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