Has your helmet saved your life poll

[Licramite]

it saved my head as i went over the handle bars and bounced off my head, it didn,t save my color bone as the bike landed on me and cracked it. -

 

[Licramite]

How do you know that your head wouldn't have been fine anyway?

because , kneel down and smack you head as hard as you can on the road, and see if your ok - thats why I'm fairly convinced my helmet saved my head from from at least from some fairly nasy cuts and abrasions,

 

[ufkacbln]

because , kneel down and smack you head as hard as you can on the road, and see if your ok - thats why I'm fairly convinced my helmet saved my head from from at least from some fairly nasy cuts and abrasions,

It's Melon time!!!!!!!


Now repeat the test wearing a melon

 

[Licramite]

Nasty cuts and abrasions. Do you wear elbow and knee pads to protect them in the same way?

funnily enough I was thinking that when watching the tour de france this year with the pile ups they have, elbow pads would have saved a fair amount of skin.
I wear gloves thats ussually enough, if I,m off roading I wear long trousers and long sleeves , helps when riding through bushes and bramble.
but proper off roaders were body armour and don,t regard themselves as softies.

 

[Licramite]

It's Melon time!!!!!!!


Now repeat the test wearing a melon

oddly enough, they used to use mellons to demonstrate what various bullets do to the body as apparantly a mellon is very similar in its density to the body
7.62 don't half splat them.

 

[Licramite]

It's nothing to do with being soft. It is about understanding why we wear helmets when we don't protect other parts of the body in the same way. The evidence is that the risks are not that high, that the additional protection is not that good and yet we increasingly buy into both myths, that cycling is dangerous and helmets are necessary.

you could well be right
but you only have to be wrong - once- and it don,t half hurt

 

[ufkacbln]

you could well be right
but you only have to be wrong - once- and it don,t half hurt

Unless you are wearing a melon?

 

[Licramite]

well thats lemonentry my dear watson

 

[Dan B]

because , kneel down and smack you head as hard as you can on the road, and see if your ok

Have you ever tried this?

 

[Licramite]

Dan B asks - Have you ever tried this?
yes - but I had a helmet on, - my front wheel bent in half and I was thrown head long over the bars, no tuck and roll , just bang head into the ground , I somersaulted over and landed sitting just as the bike followed me and cracked me on the collar bone.

If you want to know what its like without a helmet , be my guest and report back.

 

[srw]

Paging Greg Collins....

(30 mph downhill on a fixie, hit a rough bit of road and came unclipped. Hit his forehead hard.)

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Paging Greg Collins....

You rang Sir?

30+ mph gung-ho downhill on a fixie, no helmet, hit a rough bit of road far too fast and came unclipped. Lost control whilst braking went over the bars. Hit my forehead hard and at speed.16 staples in the wound, nose glued back together, lots of gravel rash on knees, elbows, hip injury (ongoing), dislocated thumb, burns from the cap I was wearing (it span on my head) No concussion. Top marks to the local NHS Trusts, paramedics, and Horsham and Stoke Mandeville Hospitals btw.

srw will explain what I did a few weeks later. Tell 'em srw....

 

[srw]

srw will explain what I did a few weeks later. Tell 'em srw....

Plummetted down Berriedale Braes (twisty, turny, steep) at speeds approaching 50mph. Towards the end of a week-long tour from London to John O'Groats.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

That bit of road was a blast.

That bit of road should be made available on the NHS.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

There's no option to vote for

"It makes someone I know feel I'm safer" which is pretty much the only reason why I wear one on road. To make others feel better.

Off road, trees and rocks have smashed three in 20 years resulting in concussion and injury each time.