The CycleChat Helmet Debate Thread

[CaadX]

At which point realising the lack of any realistic of factual evidence, the personal insults began

Classic you couldn't make it up !

 

[newfhouse]

I'm not sure you are cut out for this type of debate are you ?

This type of debate? Yes, you're probably right.

 

[ufkacbln]

Classic you couldn't make it up !

... but you did!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Blimey, this was starting to go quite well until the petty bickering ....

 

[MontyVeda]

Blimey, this was starting to go quite well until the petty bickering ....

It's a message to us all...
DON'T Drink and Post!

 

[ufkacbln]

It's a message to us all...
DON'T Drink and Post!

Don't forget that the biggest singe factor in head injuries is alcohol..... when drinking, wear a helmet

 

[ufkacbln]

Where did you take the helmet to ? What did you ask for.

I took mine to the supplier explained who I was a phone call was made and the helmet excepted for examination. Of course I may get the same result as you but we can hope.

If it was excepted then it would not have been sent for inspection.

One wonders why they did not want any evidence of its failure

 

[MontyVeda]

Don't forget that the biggest singe factor in head injuries is alcohol..... when drinking, wear a helmet

Good advice.... I've got one scar on my head and I gained it in a sitting room. I was of course, very very drunk.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Don't forget that the biggest singe factor in head injuries is alcohol..... when drinking, wear a helmet

Singe factor? Were they drinking meths!

 

[ufkacbln]

Singe factor? Were they drinking meths!

A burning desire?

 

[theclaud]

Singe factor?

I was gonna try and squeeze in a gag about it being up a tree, but it was too difficult to work it in.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I was gonna try and squeeze in a gag about it being up a tree, but it was too difficult to work it in.

One of my favourite sketches ....

 

[pjm]

I used to wear a helmet whenever i cycled as a matter of course, never paid it any thought one way or another. One summer a couple of years ago, on one of those rare 30 degreesC+ days, I was riding home from work and my head started to feel really unpleasantly hot, to the extent I felt a bit dizzy. It occurred to me that I would be safer if my concentration wasn't compromised by overheating. So I took the helmet off, and the next day I didn't wear it. I noticed a couple of things: firstly the feeling of the wind in my hair was pretty wonderful, and secondly I felt more vulnerable, which changed the way I rode - for the safer (fairly obviously). Anyway, the helmet went back on in the winter and I thought no more about it. Then the next summer I thought about going helmet-less. I left it at home one day and again I had the feeling that I was riding differently, riding better. I did some more reading about it and with the help of forum threads like this one, I learned a great deal. Now I don't ever wear a helmet and I am certain that I am a much better and safer cyclist for it. So, thanks to you all for feeling strongly enough to keep posting here, its helped at least one person make a better choice.
The irony is that by choosing to not wear a helmet, I am certain that I have spent, and do spend, more time thinking about safety that the vast majority of helmet wearers.

 

[Lonestar]

.....and we all lived happily ever after.

 

[Mugshot]

The irony is that by choosing to not wear a helmet, I am certain that I have spent, and do spend, more time thinking about safety that the vast majority of helmet wearers.

I wonder if that's a bit too long to have printed on a jersey?