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

wear a helmet or don't. who gives a fuck? do however, give a fuck about those that give a fuck.

When you were knocked off your bike and broke your arm were you asked if you had been wearing a helmet at the time? As if you could have taken it off your head and wrapped it around your arm just before you hit the ground?

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.

Lol. Top work. Almost makes me wish any of my workmates gave enough of a shit about me and my brain to do the same.

When you were knocked off your bike and broke your arm were you asked if you had been wearing a helmet at the time? As if you could have taken it off your head and wrapped it around your arm just before you hit the ground?

nope. the NHS are fucking great and sod anyone who says otherwise. was asked if i 'hit my head' tho.

In this case it appears under 14s will be covering up or getting a fine.

There's a press release from the other helmet charity Headway, which mentions the evidence used in the decision and adds

a compulsory helmet law in Jersey is unlikely to have a major impact on cycling activity in Jersey.

I suppose an already small number being reduced is still a small number, so no change there.

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.

Excellent. I trust you've attached a large rainbow afro wig to it, so that you're more visible and safe from being walked into by someone who didn't see you.

Fill body suit with a helmet
You know it makes sense:
http://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/resources/images/3148167.jpg?type=articleLandscape

From here

He just wants a car swell, though.

Why would you want to ban the naked bike ride, it's loads of fun, everyone that saw it go through Manchester was really supportive, although there were a few pervy guys taking photos at the start and end. For the record I only had one helmet on show and it wasn't on my noggin.

The MP wanting it banned:
*During the 2009 expenses scandal, the Daily Telegraph published his expenses showing he had claimed, amongst other things, a £655 'love seat'[25] and had flipped his second home.
*

Kinky fucker, it was one of the least sexual things I have done naked.

I think some thing might have been lost in translation, I'm pretty sure the only “offensive exhibitionism” on display here is a discredited back-bencher sucking up to the prudes in Frinton

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburndarwenhyndburnribble/11351429.Search_for_driver_who_knocked_Ribble_Valley_vicar_off_bike/

Rev Malcolm is planning to take his battered cycle helmet into St Leonard’s CE Primary School to show them the importance of being safe on a bike.

He talks to his imaginary friend in the sky, you can't really expect him to have two brain cells to rub together.

Be safe, be seen. Giro Section on price drop at Wiggle in the Highlight Yellow colorway, £11.90 today, dropping 35p every day if you want to live dangerously.

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^ bargain, gonna get me one and sticker it up / rattle can it.

Look like Jersey went ahead with the helmet law for children up to 14.

Gave some bullshit reason too.

"It is my wish and desire that once young people get into the habit of wearing a cycle helmet for a number of years, they would wish not to take them off later on."

1000 apologies for reviving this cocking thread and I can't be arsed to go through all of it but a lot of helmetists are asking 'why would someone not wear one?' and my answers are (because after 30 or so pages no one has mentioned either of these): It cuts off a small percentage of my peripheral vision which I believe keeps me safer, it also makes noise and blocks sound which I personally also rely on a lot while riding, so when riding with a helmet I feel less sure of what is going on around me and there have been a number of times when having that extra % of peripheral vision and hearing has no doubt saved my arse, perhaps more than a helmet would have if it had gone wrong.

I do wear a helmet for off road and I have noticed that while wearing a helmet on the way to ride off road cars pass noticeably closer also the rare times I've encountered abuse/random shouting from car drivers has been while wearing a helmet.

As part of my job I have to cross Paris reasonably often and because I'm normally carrying equipment I often take taxi's and I have noticed almost without fail that the more cyclisty you look, the less space they tend to give. The same taxi will pass a fully lycra'd and helmetted man a lot closer than man who is dressed normally. Obvious women, beautiful godzilla type women and Velib riders are normally given the widest berth. I'm not saying it's right or just, or that it is a scientific test, just what I have noticed from spending hours in the back of taxi's. I also noticed that when I went from riding a mountain bike everywhere to riding fixed gear and road bikes that even that tended to make people pass generally closer, maybe it's the slimmer profile or maybe it's because the road positioning on a road bike makes you look more like 'a proper cyclist'

once again accept my profoundest apologies.

http://www.roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/3765.html

"the reasons and evidence supplied by non-compulsion advocates is all wrong because... we say it is, so wear a helmet"

bonus: contains amazing new word " crashworthiness "

When you were knocked off your bike and broke your arm were you asked if you had been wearing a helmet at the time? As if you could have taken it off your head and wrapped it around your arm just before you hit the ground?

nope. the NHS are fucking great and sod anyone who says otherwise. was asked if i 'hit my head' tho.

I was asked if i was wearing a helmet when i got knocked off despite my injuries being solely located around my lower legs.

ISTR reading somewhere that A&E are just helping collect stats; hence questions about wearing a helmet or not, regardless of the injuries seen.

bonus: contains amazing new word "crashworthiness"

Pretty sure that's not a neologism, we had crashworthiness when I was a neophyte motorcyclist in the 1980s to describe how expensive it was going to be if you gently dropped the bugger off the sidestand.

I was asked if i was wearing a helmet when i got knocked off despite my injuries being solely located around my lower legs.

Was that because you were wearing a helmet?

I was asked if i was wearing a helmet when i got knocked off despite my injuries being solely located around my lower legs.

This is what they were asking me when I almost lost a leg in a crash.

They looked a little affronted when I explained that I did not have enough time to remove my helmet and wrap it around my shin before the collision.

neophite

'neophyte' :)