Might be more suited to the sports forum, but I'll get more of a response here I think. I see about 20 cyclists a day - not a single one of them wears a helmet. Has there been some research done since I was a child which says "don't wear a helmet"? Because when I was young, it was always "wear a helmet". Yet nobody wears them. Can anyone shed any light on this?
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its not law for cyclists to wear a helmet so they don't I never do when i'm on my bike
I'm well aware its not the law, but is it not completely retarded? I mean, if you come off your bike (you will, eventually), there is nothing between your head and a car or the road. I know someone who fell off their bike when they were 12 and hit their head on the kerb, they are brain damaged as a result. Apparently a standard helmet would have meant no brain damage.
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It's not cool y0.
But seriously, I tend to wear a helmet when I'm out on the bike but maybe that's because being seriously into my mountain biking and not just using it as a hop on-hop off mode of transport makes me take safety seriously.
But seriously, I tend to wear a helmet when I'm out on the bike but maybe that's because being seriously into my mountain biking and not just using it as a hop on-hop off mode of transport makes me take safety seriously.
Never quite got the whole "not cool" thing. I'd rather people thought I looked like a bit of a dick with a helmet on, rather than spend the next 40 years zipping around in a wheelchair whilst I dribble on myself due to brain damage, but maybe that's just me!
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Its all about the perception and accepted risk levels that individual is willing to take.
On a side not what car do you drive Jamief?
On a side not what car do you drive Jamief?
Thing is, maybe it's because I'm a driver first and a cyclist second, I know what would happen if I hit a cyclist. I think a lot of cyclists have never driven, so they don't realise the danger they are in.
I've got a FN2 Civic TypeR mate.
Tbh, I rarely wear a cycle lid. The times that I do, its when I KNOW that I'm going doing something that may well result in falling off, from height, onto rocks (i.e. I'm going jumping).
Cycling to Sainsbury's? Nope, I won't bother. Also no point in me wearing a lid to cycle half a mile down the road when the rest of the cycle is going to be through premium bush
Cycling to Sainsbury's? Nope, I won't bother. Also no point in me wearing a lid to cycle half a mile down the road when the rest of the cycle is going to be through premium bush
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Fair play i agree, if i was going to use my bike on the road i would wear a lid, i only go through the forrest on it so don't bother, part of me nags thinking i should however.
Ref thew car i was going to say its the same as someone driving around in a 1980's tin box, some people will think, myself included, if you crashed that you aint going to get out alive why doesn't he buy a safer newer car.
Some people just haven't taken the time to look at the risk.
Ref thew car i was going to say its the same as someone driving around in a 1980's tin box, some people will think, myself included, if you crashed that you aint going to get out alive why doesn't he buy a safer newer car.
Some people just haven't taken the time to look at the risk.
It like, totally messes up your hair.
The other thing that seems to be a real issue now is kids riding their bike all over the road, crossing it at random times and going up the wrong side of the road etc. Don't know if this has always been an issue or not, maybe its because im only a few years past doing it myself lol.
On the cool front, im also into serious mountain biking and surprisingly the macho attitude is completely different there. At the down hill and all mountain course i end up at people come over to see why you aren't wearing a helmet. I forgot my pads recently and even had couple of people come over for that as well, asking if i thought i should be wearing some and no one goes off on one at people for telling them to wear a helmet. Need that attitude and respect everywhere really.
The other thing that seems to be a real issue now is kids riding their bike all over the road, crossing it at random times and going up the wrong side of the road etc. Don't know if this has always been an issue or not, maybe its because im only a few years past doing it myself lol.
On the cool front, im also into serious mountain biking and surprisingly the macho attitude is completely different there. At the down hill and all mountain course i end up at people come over to see why you aren't wearing a helmet. I forgot my pads recently and even had couple of people come over for that as well, asking if i thought i should be wearing some and no one goes off on one at people for telling them to wear a helmet. Need that attitude and respect everywhere really.
Most cyclists do realise, but have this rather mistaken believe that it won't happen to them. I can list on zero fingers the number of people I know who have suffered head injuries from cycling accidents, and that really doesn't help with the perception. PS I have a bike, and a helmet, and if complete body armour were available I'd buy that instead.
Body amour is far more useful than a helmet. you are far more likely to brake your body than a lid.
As people have said it's a percentage game
Risk of injury vs annoyance of wearing a helmet.
Would you still be saying that if you had hit your head? Don't think you'd find it annoying if it saved your life!
Broken arms heal, broken legs heal, broken skulls often dont'.
Taht's the thing broken arms/legs don't always heel. Just like broken heads usually heel fine..
But everything's a risk.. The risk of server head injury is far less than server limb injury. Yet how many people wear body armour which is widely available.
The risk/reward thing just doesn't add up for me.
Helmet - risk: messed up hair. reward
I don't think you have quite got this statistics lark.
I'm yet to recieve ANY kind of head injury, let alone a severe one.
The risk/reward thing just doesn't add up for me.
Helmet - risk: messed up hair. reward
Heat, sweat, annoyance, carrying it around....