metro article on helmets

[jdtate101]

I've just finished reading through this thread, and interesting reading it does make. I don't agree with many points made, but generally people have defended their choices well. From purely a 3rd party point of view (I don't want to get drawn into this argument), I wouldn't mind seeing the age spread of those who do and don't wear a helmet. I suspect those who grew up in an age where helmets were not the norm, would naturally feel they didn't want one. Those younger riders may have grown up with helmets being an everyday fact, so are more likely to wear one by default.

So if you would like to post your age and preference (to wear or not).

I'll start ....37 and yes I do wear a helmet.

 

[Boris Bajic]

It depends on the age of the bicycle.

I am Bicycle.

My bicycles were built in the 1930s, the 1980s, the 1990s and the... whatever the last decade is called.

I am pushing 50. And not pushing very hard, frankly.

I rarely wear a helmet. I bought mine in the early 90s so I didn't seem hypocritical when asking my young children to wear one. They now know I am a hypocrite, so I rarely bother to wear it.

I think the person who made the point about age (jdtate) is right. There are many 'serious' cyclists in my area who are in their 60s or older. I see them out on their old steel road bikes and almost to a man they wear casquettes.

It may also be a function of when one started to ride. My guess is that folk who started in the past twenty years will be more inclined to wear one, whatever their age.

 

[Boris Bajic]

It was a specific answer. My helmet wearing is dependent on which bicycle I am riding.

I quite like that idea and am tempted to ask what the parameters and reasons are...

But I won't.

 

[growingvegetables]

age 58 - don't wear a helmet

Add kids in their 20s - 2 never wear helmets, 1 wears a helmet off-road but never on-road.

 

[dellzeqq]

so, here we were in A+E, Greg with his lacerated head...... http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/14th-april-amersham-pre-fridays-tour-ride-66-miles.97954/page-3 - post 53 and on

the doctor says he's investigating the effects of MTB crashes, so he might take a scan

the nurse comes in and tells Greg off for not wearing a helmet. The doctor smiles, and I say 'you're staying out of this, aren't you?'

he smiles some more

later he comes back and says 'I don't wear a helmet either'.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

so, here we were in A+E, Greg with his lacerated head...... http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/14th-april-amersham-pre-fridays-tour-ride-66-miles.97954/page-3 - post 53 and on

the doctor says he's investigating the effects of MTB crashes, so he might take a scan

the nurse comes in and tells Greg off for not wearing a helmet.
'.

What is it with so called health " professionals" that allows them to act in such an unprofessional manner ? If I damage my car I expect the panel beater to fix it without giving a lecture on driving, I don't expect a plumber to tell me what to eat whilst unblocking the toilet, or a washing machine man to have an opinion on what sort of clothes I'm washing. I expect them all to do their job and keep their opinions to themselves unless and until I ask for them.

This is a seperate query to the one that asks ...What is it with so called health " professionals" that makes them think they know anything about how to stop an injury just by witnessing the results of it?

Both queries are I think, to do with the self inflated opinion that the trade has of itself.

 

[Boris Bajic]

Both queries are I think, to do with the self inflated opinion that the trade has of itself.

What's the difference between God and a surgeon?

God doesn't think he's a surgeon....

Although I've had that friendly lecture a few times at A&E or in an ambulance and I don't find it at all inappropriate.

I had it once from the vicar when my youngest and I rode helmetless to a Church event. Bizarrely (I made nothing of it) when I shrugged at his lecture, he added "You do realise you're standing next to a Police Inspector, don't you?".

No clever response came to me.....

 

[ufkacbln]

What is it with so called health " professionals" that allows them to act in such an unprofessional manner ? If I damage my car I expect the panel beater to fix it without giving a lecture on driving, I don't expect a plumber to tell me what to eat whilst unblocking the toilet, or a washing machine man to have an opinion on what sort of clothes I'm washing. I expect them all to do their job and keep their opinions to themselves unless and until I ask for them.

This is a seperate query to the one that asks ...What is it with so called health " professionals" that makes them think they know anything about how to stop an injury just by witnessing the results of it?

Both queries are I think, to do with the self inflated opinion that the trade has of itself.

They simply should not it is unprofessional and against the principle of evidence based practice.

Just google Angela Lee the president of BHIT, and gain a fine example of how to be unprofessional

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

They simply should not it is unprofessional and against the principle of evidence based practice.

Just google Angela Lee the president of BHIT, and gain a fine example of how to be unprofessional

No need to Google her, I'm familiar with her idea that ex-paediatric nurse = expert on engineering and physics.

 

[dellzeqq]

What is it with so called health " professionals" that allows them to act in such an unprofessional manner ? .

well, one endures it with good humour. What we told the nurse was this - that Greg's 'off' was one of those which would probably have turned out worse if he'd been wearing a helmet. She just didn't get it.

On the other hand....when Susie visited A+E a couple of weeks ago having been bashed in the rear end, following a rear-ending by a van, I could legitimately point out that they didn't make helmets for rear ends - not even for one as precious as hers

 

[ufkacbln]

No need to Google her, I'm familiar with her idea that ex-paediatric nurse = expert on engineering and physics.

Here she is showing why her advice on wearing helmets is dodgy to say the least.

 

[ufkacbln]

Just had a thought

TyT is Angela Lee AICMFP........

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Just had a thought

TyT is Angela Lee AICMFP........

Nope sorry! He ignores questions that are difficult to answer ( whislt holding a view the answer will negate) , she on the other hand simply falls back on shroud waving and making up statistics. He at least is honest enough to know that he can't sustain his position, and so runs away, she exploits injuries for her own ends.

 

[lukesdad]

Nope sorry! He ignores questions that are difficult to answer ( whislt holding a view the answer will negate) , she on the other hand simply falls back on shroud waving and making up statistics. He at least is honest enough to know that he can't sustain his position, and so runs away, she exploits injuries for her own ends.

Of course you have never been guilty of this

 

[ufkacbln]

Of course you have never been guilty of this

I like Angela Lee's and BHIT's statistics!

According to their figures compulsory children's helmets will save three times as many children from dying each year than all cyclists head injuries at the moment.

In order to "be saved" there must be an incident ion which the head is involved.

One can therefore only deduce that the compulsory helmets have increased the number of accidents children have something like ten fold.