The CycleChat Helmet Debate Thread

[ufkacbln]

A bit like my bear repelling jacket then, which has been so successful that no bear has come close enough to demonstrate that it is working.

Totally OT

I am a member of the Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society

Perhaps my membership identifies me as a supporter which is why I have never been attacked by one

 

[benb]

 

[growingvegetables]

I am a member of the Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society .........

And who among us could resist googling that? You may regret this . But why not .............

'Have you ever taken an icy bath and then tried to make love?" An intriguing question which Kine Henriksen offers as an attempt to explain the 18in, finely polished bone that she holds in her hands. The bone, it turns out, is known as a baculum and was once the proud appendage of a male walrus, with which he no doubt helped to take the minds of lady walruses off the long, dark and very chilly winter nights.

The giant baculum (penis bone, really - look it up) is now used to initiate - via a tap on each shoulder - new members of an eccentric museum in the small town of Hammerfest, on the northern coast of Norway.

 

[ufkacbln]

I see not much has changed while I've been away, glad your helmet helped in the accident @Racing roadkill even though some on here refuse to believe it, I wonder how your bare head would have handled the offending object which caused the severe dent in the outer shell and the damage to layers beneath? Actually, it doesn't bare thinking about does it?

I was out on the other week

I stopped off for lunch at a Country Pub

Due to the change from lit exterior and dim interior I failed to see the beam and cracked my head on it

I hate to think of the injury that I would have sustained if it was not for my faithful Tilley living up to the manafacturer claims of saving lives

I know there will be those who will refuse to believe this, but I really believe my Tilley saved me from serious injury

Hitting this beam without the Tilley I does not bare thinking about

 

[ufkacbln]

And who among us could resist googling that? You may regret this . But why not .............

.....not these days!

 

[Justinslow]

I was out on the other week

C'mon, out on the what?
The pull? The beer? The town? Delete where applicable.

Sorry you bumped you head old fruit, it pays to look where you are walking sometimes.

 

[ufkacbln]

C'mon, out on the what?
The pull? The beer? The town? Delete where applicable.

Sorry you bumped you head old fruit, it pays to look where you are walking sometimes.

But the point is that the Tilley saved me from serious injury, surely you have to agree with the contribution that the Tilley made to my safety?

 

[Justinslow]

But the point is that the Tilley saved me from serious injury, surely you have to agree with the contribution that the Tilley made to my safety?

You got any pics to back this up? I reckon you was on the pull and your eyes were elsewhere

 

[CaadX]

Real

... have helmet... will crash...

Really ? Do you want to rethink that one ?

 

[CaadX]

[QUOTE 4229087, member: 259"]I Always crash into the top of the garage door if I leave mine on.[/QUOTE]
I'd get rid of the garage !

 

[screenman]

[QUOTE 4229087, member: 259"]I Always crash into the top of the garage door if I leave mine on.[/QUOTE]

Memory problems or slow learner?

 

[martint235]

Might TE="PenttitheFinn, post: 4228703, member: 47032"]I am not going to put a like for this in case someone takes me seriously, or even say it's funny, although it is, but what does your tee-shirt look like as I might have been attacked by a
Mihh
[QUOTE 4229121, member: 45"]Boooorrrrrrriiiiinnnnnng[/QUOTE]
Really? 198 pages of "Show us some evidence other than anecdotal: my mate crashed and his helmet saved his life" and you now decide it's boring?

Seriously between this and the thread where someone buys a £250 helmet, I wish I had a bridge I could sell.

 

[MontyVeda]

... I really am 53 and haven't fallen off a bicycle since I was child.

Careful now... about five years ago i made that very same observation. Sod's law kicked in and i came off three times in as many weeks!

 

[MontyVeda]

You got any pics to back this up? I reckon you was on the pull and your eyes were elsewhere

it doesn't matter if he was on the pull of not, or where he was looking at the time of the incident... the simple fact is, he had a hat on and it helped.

 

[Justinslow]

Really? 198 pages of "Show us some evidence other than anecdotal: my mate crashed and his helmet saved his life" and you now decide it's boring?

Now you know none of that is asked for in this thread as laid out at the very beginning and anecdotal evidence is absolutely fine to use.
And we seem to be slightly lacking on "I wore a helmet, it saved me, I didn't go to hospital" statistics.