I always wear a helmet, almost. Very rarely I jump on the bike early in the morning and head off to work and simply forget to put it on, I realise something’s wrong a little later. If I’m not too far from home I go back, otherwise I do without.
I don’t find heat to be a problem, I regularly ride in temperatures over 90F and I don’t find the helmet to be particularly hot, infact it protects my head from the sun and stops me from getting too burnt.
You wear a seatbelt in a plane in case of take-off and landing accidents and turbulence. In a catastrophic crash they will do nothing, but most crashes are not catastrophic. Turbulence kills people who are not wearing their seatbelts.
Dear god I hate those fuckers. I’m a lowly Bike commuter on a road that follows the Missisippi, so it is popular with recreational riders. I don’t have the pretty lycra and the $3k bike, but every driver those assholes piss off are more than happy to take their anger out on me.
I don’t wear one riding on campus, there are no cars where I ride, and I have difficulty keeping up with it between classes and the like.
At home/off campus I do so most of the time, but I do forget.
No. I don’t think I’ve ever worn one and I ride every day.
Kind of a stupid reason, too. I just hate carrying the damn thing around.
This is a vitally important point. On a plane, wear the damn seatbelt.
On motorcycles, I always wear a full-face helmet.
Always. I like my head in one piece.
I ride paved roads and dirt country roads. Rarely in town (only to get out of it).
You’d be retarded not to. Literally.
Usually wear it. I only don’t if it’s extremely hot and I’m staying on campus (where I’m rarely on the road and never going more than a quarter mile.
Always. As Jerry Seinfeld said, “Any brain that does not make its owner wear a helmet while cycling probably isn’t worth having anyway.”
Oh, come on. Sure, some assholes wear helmets, but that doesn’t make it stupid to wear a helmet. I personally always wear a helmet when I bike (though I haven’t even touched one in years), partially because my parents required me to and partially because if I hadn’t been wearing one when I had my first accident, I’d probably be either in the hospital permanently or making frequent visits as a head injury patient.
Oh, and no, I never talk on my phone while driving.
In the USA it’s 12mph, not 7. The European standards are even less stringent, but I cannot find the exact figure. IIRC the European helmet test is equivalent to a fall at 7mp or 8mph onto a flat surface.
From Bicycle helmet - Wikipedia
What you just wrote makes zero sense. In how many car accidents does your head strike the tarmac? The argument is that if your head strikes the road with a helmet on, the increased diameter of the helmet will cause much greater rotation in your neck than if your head were bare. The inability of the helmet to slide over the skull in the same way that the scalp does exacerbates the effect:
I am only presenting this argument as devil’s advocate - as I said, I usually wear a helmet, and always when mountain-biking or commuting in traffic.
I cycle over 3,000 miles a year so I take quite an interest in the pro- and anti-helmet arguments.
Skulls are much stronger than people give them credit for, though - if the helmet fascists were correct, then 20-30 years ago in the pre-helmet era, hardly any kids would have made it to adulthood as they’d have fractured their skulls falling off their bikes. :rolleyes:
Judging my the comments on this thread, though, the helmet lobby has succeeded in making the majority of otherwise right-thinking people believe that it’s madness to get on a bike without a helmet.
That’s very sad, IMHO.
Do you wear a helmet while playing rugby?
Many rugby players do wear head protection and head injuries in rugby are unlikely to kill.
Always - it’s the law here, anyways, but yes, always.
Also on my scooter.
I once ran into a telephone pole face first (it is a matter of perverse pride to me that I was going uphill at the time). I fractured my malar bone, and required plastic surgery. I STILL didn’t wear a bike helmet. When I took up with Pepper Mill, she was appalled to learn this, and she insisted I wear a bike helmet. I have ever since.
Every single time.
I’ve broken a helmet in a low speed crash. Bell replaced it for free (and sent me a certificate that said Saved by the Bell 
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We have a term for people that ride w/o helmets. We call them organ donors.
All that proves is that polystyrene is not as strong as a skull.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Helmets are made out of polystyrene. They’re not a magic force-field. They’ll save you from getting a bruise on the noggin, but any crash that’s going to kill you will likely kill you whether or not you have an inch of plastic foam on your head. Please take a reality check.
Of course it’s not magic, it’s material that’s designed to crumple and/or split, absorbing energy in the process and slowing down your head gradually. At least more gradually than without the helmet. It doesn’t save you from all accidents, but I think it’s worth the minuscule amount of inconvenience it may cause.
Which, of course, are the only two possible outcomes.