Helmets

[I like Skol]

I know, I'm sorry. This is why I have always resisted the urge to comment in helmet debates but it is like Pandoras box and once you start you can't stop!

 

[4F]

Excellent post I like Skol, Clandy pass the popcorn over please

 

[on the road]

Years ago way back when I was in my teens we would usually ride about acting foolish (as teens do) and every so often I would go over the handlebars and hit my head on the ground, all I would get would be a bump on the head, and even a couple of years ago I was involved in an accident with a car, I hit my head on the windscreen and only got a small bump on the head, I'm sure if I was wearing a helmet it would probably had cracked or broken in two and then everyone would be saying how it saved my life.

 

[Clandy]

I have no problems with cycle helmets. If people choose to wear them that's fine, if people choose not to wear them that's fine too. It's cycle helmet compulsion I have a problem with. A very big problem.

 

[blubb]

Very nice post "i like scol". You can wear whatever you want, but all these " it saved my life" stories are getting a very lame argument.

 

[2old2care]

I do. All the time. But have never really been convinced that they necessarily will make a difference in an accident, most of the time.

Having been knocked off by a car and seeing the dent in the side of the helmet, I now think that anyone that doesn't wear one is asking for trouble

 

[2old2care]

Years ago way back when I was in my teens we would usually ride about acting foolish (as teens do) and every so often I would go over the handlebars and hit my head on the ground, all I would get would be a bump on the head, and even a couple of years ago I was involved in an accident with a car, I hit my head on the windscreen and only got a small bump on the head, I'm sure if I was wearing a helmet it would probably had cracked or broken in two and then everyone would be saying how it saved my life.

Is it worth the risk?

 

[Clandy]

Is it worth the risk?

If that's the thinking then everyone should wear helmets all the time. When walking, when sleeping, when showering, when running, when driving, when watching TV, when using a computer, when using stairs, when riding escalators, when riding in trains, when riding in buses...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yeah, it's like vests.

Oh I thought vests were compulsory, my mum said it was agin the law not to wear one. All these years...

 

[mickle]

Oh I thought vests were compulsory, my mum said it was agin the law not to wear one. All these years...

Meheh.

 

[kishin]

Is it worth the risk?

The same argument is used to justify a belief in God.

 

[mickle]

A belief in a whatnow?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Oh I thought vests were compulsory, my mum said it was agin the law not to wear one. All these years...

Cheer-up, at least it helped keep the string industry going ....

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Meheh.

What's a Meheh, is that good or bad? Innit.

 

[on the road]

Is it worth the risk?

Here we go again