The CycleChat Helmet Debate Thread

[Roxy641]

Of course, if only I'd known that piling into the back of parked cars would hurt me....I'm not making that mistake again.

I'll be sure to avoid piling into the back of parked cars at 25 miles an hour, thanks for the tip.

 

[Roxy641]

I don't think anyone has said that.

I wear one, but I'm still not convinced that it would save my life. Willing to accept it MAY protect me from lots of low level kind of accidents.

Could quite easily turn that around to: "So, just because you wear a helmet you think I should too".

Wear one if you want to or don't wear one if you don't want to. The choice is yours.

So just because you don't want to wear one means that I shouldn't?.

 

[Roxy641]

I wear gloves when it is too cold.

Why do many cyclist wear gloves or most?

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Admittedly OT here but @Roxy641 : your top-posting style is awkward to read! Is it a feature of whatever device your using?

GC

 

[newfhouse]

Oblig xkcd ref.

Admittedly OT here but @Roxy641 : your top-posting style is awkward to read! Is it a feature of whatever device your using?

GC

 

[Roxy641]

I wonder why the people that have been killed while wearing helmets aren't sending us the damage to prove that helmets aren't the be-all-and-end-all of accidents?

Keithmac, this is just "Selective bias". The ones where the helmet didn't save their life aren't hear to tell their story.

And while we are on the subject of black ice. I once fell of my bike because of black ice (My dad had also warned me that there was black ice on the road, but I choose to ignore the warning). Once I knew I was about to fall off my bike I went with the fall. Was very painful, but lucky I was able to get up and walk away. No head injury, but my left arm. Sadly I don't have photographic proof that I survived that "not wearing a helmet" but this is the problem. Non helmet wearers that survive are silent by their own silence. Helmet wearers tend to take pictures of their injuries to prove a point. I have worn a cycle helmet since I started cycling nearly a year ago, but perhaps because I would take the black ice warning more seriously now, rather than me wearing a helmet.

I'm on holiday at the moment so limited access but I'll post a picture of my scar when I get back, caused by slipping on black ice and hitting my temple/ eyebrow on the road.

I had the same accident again a few years back now and no scar or blood was spilled.

People on this thread will swear bilnd the helmet had nothing to do with the better outcome of the second accident but personally I believe it did.

The point about the collision I saw with another rider hitting a car window head on I suppose you could say unless he tried it again helmet-less you couldn't prove the helmet made a difference. All I can say is there was no blood spilled on that occasion either..

 

[Roxy641]

Admittedly OT here but @Roxy641 : your top-posting style is awkward to read! Is it a feature of whatever device your using?

GC

I see what I can do ;-)

 

[Roxy641]

.. and the Ambulance?

We used to have a multi page form to fill in for accidents involving aircraft, it included damage to the aircraft

I remember filling in one as .... slight bloodstain on on right undercarriage tyre

Let us hope that the Ambulance was wearing a helmet! Otherwise there will be finger wagging for certain people on this thread.

 

[Roxy641]

Maybe he cycles backwards...

GC

The Goons could have made an extra song out of it...
"I'm Walking Backwards for christmas" turns into "I'm cycling backwards for christmas"

Oops, sorry for mentioning the "C" word, and it's only the 2nd week in September. Bad, bad,
naughty Roxy641

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Oblig xkcd ref.

I am NOT going to 'like' that... even though I do.

GC

 

[Roxy641]

Are you suggesting that the head saves the helmet?

Perhaps the helmet could be carried....by TWO African swallows < / Monty Python mode END

 

[Roxy641]

Actually I don't like boxing. I find the whole idea of trying to whack somebody else in the head on purpose somewhat unsettling if not quite abhorrent. But I accept that it is entirely up to those involved if they want to do it.

Appently 100% of boxers could prevent head injuries (not by wearing a helmet), but by not getting involved with boxing.

 

[Justinslow]

@Roxy641 to the greatest thread in the world, EVER!

 

[Roxy641]

@Roxy641 to the greatest thread in the world, EVER!

Thanks. I'll let you know when I get up to page 337, oops, it is 338 now!

 

[mjr]

But roads don't kill people, cars/lorries etc can (and do though). True, there is one road I've avoided near me, and I've been on just about every other road in my local area.

So why do you avoid that road?

Roads might not kill people, but some certainly seem to encourage motorists to kill.