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

As a helmet wearer I get the impression from this thread that non-helmet wearers think that the helmeted are wasting their time *and *undermining cycling by making it appear more dangerous than it is *and *contributing to a day in the future when the helmet becomes compulsory.

James, the most important factor you have to consider is that a lot of people think that a helmet makes them safe at the expense of virtually every other possible safety measure they could take. Helmet 'information' and discussion is omnipresent and creates a lot of noise. Much more important safety advice is comparatively ignored.

Quite frankly, I don't care if someone wants to wear one (although at various points the Government have said that with a certain level of wearing rate, compulsion might be considered), but as I talk to people about cycling all the time, I find it distracts immensely from more important safety advice. The level of ignorance is such that people even say things like 'he/she was/wasn't wearing a helmet' where someone has just been crushed by a lorry. This is a real problem.