Someone Ran me over..
- Thread starter jonneymendoza
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Well, my luck has held out until 38 years of age - fingers crossed!
You haven't read a word of the last page have you? It's not that simple.
It's not logic though - it's a fallacy.
A fair point, it's a personal choice, and as you say many of the studies are pretty inconclusive.
There was a study in Australia that suggests more accidents happen whenbthe cycling population wear more helmets, but it doesn't go into much more detail than that, so we don't know how many were trivial, and how many were more serious. Or indeed how many trivial accidents went unreported, so it's very difficult to get an accurate picture.
There was a study in Australia that suggests more accidents happen whenbthe cycling population wear more helmets, but it doesn't go into much more detail than that, so we don't know how many were trivial, and how many were more serious. Or indeed how many trivial accidents went unreported, so it's very difficult to get an accurate picture.
A very flawed logic though, it does seem counter intuitive that helmets can actually increase the risk of injury, but that is what the limited data seems to suggest.
Its well know that a helmet is better than none at all. If you want to risk without one then so be it. I would rather my child wear one than not!!!!
Well assumed maybe, but not well known, what statistics are you basing your opinions on? If its that simple youll be able to prove your opinion quite easily.
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No need for statistics or numbers! Human life and care for others is more important. Obviously you dont have kids as if you did you would want them to wear a helmet!!!!!!!!!!!
Because the facts by those that have actually carried research in to the matter show otherwise. You will generally find facts trump illinformed opinion.
Just because they're paranoid and illogical still doesn't make it right. Really...is there something wrong with you? You've had a number of sources posted at you yet you continue to post incorrect drivel with no backup.
How else do you assess how effective anything is, tarot cards?
Is nobody reading my posts?
Even Dis86's cyclehelmets.org doesn't go that far. At most it says
For minor injuries helmets help, for more serious injuries they might help or have no effect.
"Marsh isn't alone in suggesting bike helmets shouldn't be worn. In a 2010 Tedx Talk (video above) Mikael Colville-Andersen, cycling ambassador for Copenhagen, insisted that some research found that cycle helmets actually cause more brain damage.
Moreover, he described society's obsession with safety equipment as "almost pornographic." Why, he wondered, don't pedestrians wear helmets, as they suffer more brain damage than cyclists?"
https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/brain-surgeon-theres-no-point-wearing-cycle-helmets/
See now if I saw you on the road without one I'd want to run you off the road just so I could see some soup splash
Maybe because pedestrians have no chance to fall over doing 10 mph into a lamp post or kerb, they can put out hands and stop themselves. I really don't give a fly **** if you wear a helmet or not just don't bitch when you hurt yourself. I guess some cyclist' think they are invincible and when they hurt themselves blame others, because ego and arrogance got the better of them.
Also to counter his claims everyone walks somewhere everyday unless housebound but not everyone cycles so that point is invalid.
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REAL LIFE!!!!
Wow, ok, you don't sound like a very rational individual.
What research?
The rest of the article doesn't support the claim that helmets 'increase the risk of injury'. At worst he says cars drive 3" closer, but that doesn't necessarily translate to head injury.