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

Had a parent at a school today asking why we don't get the children to wear helmets when they do cycle training. "Even the police recommend it". Thanks police!
It's not a discussion you ever want to get in to so I distracted him, as I always do in these situations, by kissing him, passionately, on the lips while my co-instructor invited the children to gather round and take selfies.

Good work ^^ I went to school today in full drag, it took the parents minds off the helmet debate, while they clapped and said ooh fabulous instructor wear, just like Conchita, helmetless of course

They do look different.

They have a more smug aura from all the cyclists using them.

The joys of the ignore function....

I don't use the ingnore function, but I only ever actually read something by him by mistake, when I haven't realised who's posting...

not some bullshit theories you can imagine.

Can this quote replace all posts by people on ignore? I would start using it, if that was the case.

More beer related head injuries are suffered without helmet than with. Fact.

Just sayin'.

that's because us people who don't wear helmets are cool and therefore we are more likely to drink alcohol and ride because that is also cool.

One again a parent believes that helmet saves a kids life because

...it bears a dent where the child head hit the road
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Hanham-mum-son-s-cycling-helmet-saved-life-crash/story-21117394-detail/story.html

She was shocked while driver her kid to school to see so many kids without helmet. At least the article did mention that the 'car' (not 'the driver' of course)'came round the corner very quickly' Now in a place where lots of cyclists are riding to school (with or without helmets); to me it's much more shocking that drivers was speeding round a blind corner. So why oh why doesn't the kids mum ask for driver to slow down rather than asking the kids to wear helmets? Is that such a strange conclusion to draw? To me it's basic risk managment. Act to remove the source of risk not demand PPE as a first resort.

Crazy

Noticed quite a few people who have bothered to put a helmet on, then don't bothered to do the chin strap up.

There's something fishy about that report - there is no mention of the driver stopping, the kid made his own way in to school after being knocked off 'crossing the road'. A hit and run but there is no mention of the driver or appeal for information? It doesn't add up.
Beyond the reporting of the incident, though, won't people just say, well, until the roads are safer and driving improves it makes sense to wear a helmet 'just in case'? And so the endless argument continues.

They do say that that Willmelling, all the time, rather than campaigning to improve safety around schools so kids don't crash at the hands of drivers. (Just like the story up-thread about the fire chief's call for helmets after his daughter was knocked off by a man in a van.)

If all the money and energy that is put into shouting about helmets (and as you know wilmelling, faffing about with them as a cycle trainer when you could be teaching them how not to crash), if this energy was directed as what the drivers should be doing to stop them hitting people (better training for drivers, lower speeds, no parking near schools, proper punishment of risky driving etc), then the roads would really be safer

I hate to be cynical about a 12 yr old but does no one else wonder what happened to the mystery car? It would normally be a front page story for a local paper - driver hits child, leaves him bleeding in the road and callously drives off? No witnesses, no description of the car? Something is going on.

You know the answer willmelling.
The car/driver is irrelevant as in all these stories because the story is about helmets. in fact I am surprised there was even a mention of the driver who sped round a corner in this article. That's some progress...

Lynchman was driving the car.

did lynchmnas died?

They took his seven Tour de France victories away from him, he had nothing to live for anymore.

Nine, not seven.

Cry evrtim.

You know the answer willmelling.
The car/driver is irrelevant as in all these stories because the story is about helmets. in fact I am surprised there was even a mention of the driver who sped round a corner in this article. That's some progress...

Are you going to start calling me by my full name in real life too? I had a courier colleague once who always referred to his friends by their full name even if the people he was talking to had no idea who they were.

Anyway, yes, generally it's crap reporting about helmets, but, but, but, this story, come on, it's ridiculous. If he was older you would think he had been caught in bed with someone's wife and made up the story to explain his injuries. I say, there never was a car and they all know it.

I had a courier colleague once who always referred to his friends by their full name even if the people he was talking to had no idea who they were.

I must spread rep.

It's true - he's say things like "I'm met James West for a drink last night" and we'd all look at each other thinking, who is that? is he famous?

http://m.theaustralian.com.au/news/sa-cyclists-and-police-face-headon-clash-over-helmet-law/story-e6frg6n6-1226927449743

(@WillMelling or if you will, Will. I'd rather be called skydancer than sky)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10866273/Cycle-helmets-are-useless-says-brain-surgeon.html

'The research showed that drivers get around 3 inches closer to cyclists who wear helmets because they perceive them as safer.'

Closes article

From the comments :-

Attention all you with stories about helmets saving your lives!
Because you fell, had a helmet, and didn't die, this is not proof that the helmet saved your life. You may feel that it is true, but what you feel is not proof.
I suggest all of you duplicate the accident you had, only without a helmet!
Once you are dead, you will be coming a lot closer to proving your point.
Now get to it!