I don't think you've quite got this logic lark. You could quite easily drive a car around with no seatbelt on and never get injured. Doesn't mean it's a sensible thing to do.
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I don't think you've quite got this logic lark. You could quite easily drive a car around with no seatbelt on and never get injured. Doesn't mean it's a sensible thing to do.
It is!!!!!! Tho complete body stuff usually starts at around £200 if your interested.
Yes but the damage you do to your head is far worse. You can't get a prosthetic head.
As has already been said, it's all down to how much risk you are willing to take. Personally Ive been knocked off my bike a couple of times just commuting and you just have to get unlucky once to ruin your life. Everything in life has aspects of gambling involved, for cycling I choose to insure against a one off catastrophic event by wearing a helmet. The downsides are pretty much non-existent whereas the upside is that I get to keep my brains inside my bonce.
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I now have visions of people walking around with Kryton's head as a replacement, lol!
Sorry i wasn't meaning that quite so literally. Its more a throw away comment often used, though there is a painful truth to it as well. We say it all the time at Karting or at the downhill courses when someone asks how much to spend on a helmet.
The answer always is, "as much as you can afford, you cant get a prosthetic head."
I only wear my helmet when I'm mountain biking and even then every fall I've had has only resulted in cut arms and legs rather than head damage. To date (1300 miles off road) my helmet has only stopped low branches hitting my head. i.e. Linear not rotation impacts
I don't wear my helmet when I cycle to work - 35 mile round trip.
A fact :
Helmets are designed to take about the level of force you'd get from falling off your bike while stationery. This is expressed as 12mph, but that's head velocity, not bike velocity.
I don't wear my helmet when I cycle to work - 35 mile round trip.
A fact :
Helmets are designed to take about the level of force you'd get from falling off your bike while stationery. This is expressed as 12mph, but that's head velocity, not bike velocity.
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I wear my lid most of the time when I'm on the road, but sometimes it does seem a real pain to carry it all the way to work and back just for the two miles I cycle to and from the station in a morning.
However, I'd me interested to see a study of how drivers treat cyclists who are wearing helmsts compated to those who aren't. I'm sure people give me more room when I'm not wearing a helmet compared to when I am.
However, I'd me interested to see a study of how drivers treat cyclists who are wearing helmsts compated to those who aren't. I'm sure people give me more room when I'm not wearing a helmet compared to when I am.
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there was a study in the last year or so, I'll try and find it, but the result was that motorists give more room to less well equiped cyclists, with the researcher even being hit, when stationary and wearing a helmet.
Though saying that I also remember reading that the majority of motorists will give you as much room as you leave between yourself and the kerb. In my experience that does seem to be true.
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Meh, I used to cycle every day through busy streets in Manchester, never wore a helmet, never got knocked off, or hit anything. I just don't like wearing one, and am willing to accept the very small risk of head injury. Fwiw, I did have a pretty big crash whilst not wearing a lid, smashed in my shoulder which still doesn't have full movement years later, not a scratch to the head though.
Yes there has.
My ex used to work in a solicitors and one of their big cases was for a cyclist that was in an accident and wasn't wearing a helmet. They proved that in certain situations (over 50% of situations) a helmet makes things worse so they won the case.
She showed me the case notes as I never wear a helmet either. I still don't based on what I read.
I fell off my MTB back when i was really into it, now the strange thing was it wasnt when i was doing anything mental or seriously offroad it was when i was riding on a flat concrete path.
Now I dont remember what happened but im lead to belive that I was up out of the saddle and the chain snapped, I went over the bars and landed opn me head on a kerb stone. Now I was wearing a helmet and it without doubt saved my life, that said waking up in one of those tubes getting your head scanned is not something I would recommend.
I started riding again after 15 years a few weeks back and the first thing I bought with was a new helmet.
Now I dont remember what happened but im lead to belive that I was up out of the saddle and the chain snapped, I went over the bars and landed opn me head on a kerb stone. Now I was wearing a helmet and it without doubt saved my life, that said waking up in one of those tubes getting your head scanned is not something I would recommend.
I started riding again after 15 years a few weeks back and the first thing I bought with was a new helmet.
