smokeysmoo
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I have my mind changed about helmets!
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smokeysmoo
Legendary Member
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- Bolton, not very far from Nob End
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ferret fur
Well-Known Member
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'What a load of old tosh...' according to my spouse.
Who is a brain surgeon
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
Yeah, they're shockers Ian - can't you persuade your missus to let you take them down?!
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
You going to go the T-Shirt route or what? My pal prints them for a living, think I'll have him fix up a design, it's a sure thing!
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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- Armonmy Way
I almost always leave my helmet with the bike. If you loop the side straps through the lock, the only way of getting the helmet away from an intact lock is by cutting the strap. And cutting the strap makes the helmet rather useless (or more useless, depending on your point of view
). Ok, there are some very bored, spiteful, destructive people who might get some pleasure out of nicking it just to irritate me but I need a new helmet anyway and I'm not actually afraid of cycling without one. Of course, there may be a few people who have access to replacement straps, and the patience to fit them, for selling on but the market for ''fell off the back of a bicycle'' 2nd hand helmets can't be very big or profitable.
recumbentpanda
Guru
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was reckoned to have about a fifty fifty chance of getting back alive. When asked how he felt about this risk he replied 'Well, sometimes people fall over walking on flat ground and crack their heads and die, so its not worth worrying'. He wore a helmet in the rocket of course, although I don't think its primary purpose was to prevent him bumping his head if he fell out . . .
I wear a helmet because it makes me feel like a spaceman . . . I'm sad like that.
I wear a helmet because it makes me feel like a spaceman . . . I'm sad like that.
Lets not turn this thread into another generic "helmet thread" (although, this one is much more tongue-in-cheek, than the last ).
For me, this is all about the OP, who now feels he should wear a helmet to protect himself from idiot drivers who probably shouldn't be allowed on our roads in the first place.
That’s pretty sad isn’t it?
J4cko, your argument is that helmets prevent injuries from self-inflicted head impacts, this is not the case in the OP. The cyclist didn’t just fall off his bike at 30mph. A car wiped him out.
).For me, this is all about the OP, who now feels he should wear a helmet to protect himself from idiot drivers who probably shouldn't be allowed on our roads in the first place.
That’s pretty sad isn’t it?
J4cko, your argument is that helmets prevent injuries from self-inflicted head impacts, this is not the case in the OP. The cyclist didn’t just fall off his bike at 30mph. A car wiped him out.
Stig-OT-Dump
Guru
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- Glasgow's sunny southside
I fell off my bike at 25 mph. I have never fallen off the pavement at this speed.
I think the fastest speed I ever fell off the pavement at was about 7 mph and that's because I was drunk and cycling home from a party. I couldn't get directly onto the road from my pals house because of the parked cars and was exiting a gap between cars further down the street. I hit my head on a car and set its alarm off.
I fell off my bike two more times trying to get going again.
Then I cycled into a bollard trying to follow a short cut over the sports fields.
I crashed into a hedge as I rounded the corner going to my flat. My neighbours found me and my bike in the hedge. They helped me get to bed.
I had a really sore head the next morning.
This might be because I hadn't been wearing a helmet. On reflection, I think it was probably just a bad hangover.
I think the fastest speed I ever fell off the pavement at was about 7 mph and that's because I was drunk and cycling home from a party. I couldn't get directly onto the road from my pals house because of the parked cars and was exiting a gap between cars further down the street. I hit my head on a car and set its alarm off.
I fell off my bike two more times trying to get going again.
Then I cycled into a bollard trying to follow a short cut over the sports fields.
I crashed into a hedge as I rounded the corner going to my flat. My neighbours found me and my bike in the hedge. They helped me get to bed.
I had a really sore head the next morning.
This might be because I hadn't been wearing a helmet. On reflection, I think it was probably just a bad hangover.
MacB
Lover of things that come in 3's
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so is that tosh that:-
1. rotational injuries are amongst the most dangerous
2. helmets may increase the chance of rotational injuries
If it's number one then I would bow to any medically qualified persons ability to comment on the risks associated with types of injury.
If it's two then I'd be curious as to what training a surgeon has to base this assertion on?
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