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

I don't have the hart for this.

It's elk and safety gone mad?

Doh!

We moost rein this in again.

that Skydancer hes got no I deer

Maybe the deer would have survived if Makro hadn't been wearing a helmet, ever think of that? Ok, he wasn't badly hurt, but only because he has the blood of a baby bambi deer on his helmet. Wait, that sounds wrong.

All puns are fair game.

http://m.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/community/community-news/police-promote-safe-cycling-in-lincolnshire-schools-1-6152567

Jordan, who was not wearing a cycling helmet, had some cuts and bruises.

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/11342297.Mum_warns_on_cycle_helmets_after_son_collides_with_pedestrian/

they fucking love this shit in Dorset, helmets save lives- the papers say so- it must be true!!

She didn't seem to aware that her son wasn't wearing a helmet.

The pedestrian was the one that suffered the head injury...

Great premise for a news story though:

"Someone's mum has an opinion."

Hold the front page.

The comments section is not too bad, look at which ones have been positively commended.

Oof, you almost made me start reading the comments there.

There's no point looking at the bottom half of the bottom half of the Internet.

I started reading the arse end half of the internet and stopped at this enlightened comment:

Teenagers,OAPs, cycles- all three are liabilities.

Mandatory helmet law coming to Jersey?

Not surprise, Denmark have a mandatory law for children wearing helmets as well.

What counts as a 'child' in this case? Under 18, or under 13 as some laws relating to children define it as?

Don't have too much of a problem with say under 10s being made to wear helmets as they have much softer skulls and are much more susceptable to brain injury, but forcing 14-15 year olds to wear helmets is fucking ridiculous.

Who is 'the bicycle helmet' organisation anyway? Going through their tweets they seem to be some kind of covert anti-cycling group, saying that not wearing helmets is more dangerous for young cyclists than cars? WTF.

Probably the same as cycling on the pavement, up to 11 years olds.

i'm ok with this. so long as they make kids wear helmets in cars as well, where you're statistically more likely to sustain a head injury. if this is not the case, and i suspect it is, all you have is a piece of blatant anti-cycling legislation fluffed up as some overwrought 'won't somebody think of the children', lowest common denominator horseshit.

Not surprise, Denmark have a mandatory law for children wearing helmets as well.

There was a proposal a few years ago, but that was thrown out. Has there been another, successful attempt since?

I've been wearing a helmet lately. My reasons are putrely political. Bring on the hate.

Just to wind up some colleagues who keep blathering on about me not wearing one I have taken to keeping one at work, and when get there I put it on until I leave, then take it off.
Fucking helmet hair though. Soon smoothed out by the breeze on the way home.