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  • July 20, 2019 at 9:05 pm #946403
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    RafatheRed

    Cant see any reason not to

    Cant see any reason not to wear a helmet,  My story is i always told my kids to wear a helmet,they would moan,they would whine. Then one day i have to go into work for a meeting on my day off. I jump on my bike (BMX) and off i cycle,then whoops i’ve forgotton to put my helmet on. well i think to myself i’ll be ok.i ride slower,miss the drains and pot holes,no jumping off the kerbs! So i get to a staggered crossroads and im waiting at the junction. Then bang! a car on the opposite junction hit me because he cut over to my side of the road. i was lucky,the back of my head did not hit the road,Saved by the ruck sack on had on my back. The one time i never wore my helmet!

     

     

     

    July 20, 2019 at 5:55 pm #946401
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    brooksby
    Xenophon2 wrote:
    Give it a rest, let those who don’t believe in helmets take their chances without them, I’ll take mine wearing one.  Live and let live, eh?

    Lots of cyclists wearing a helmet are only wearing it because they grew sick and tired of being nagged about it by a Significant Other Who Doesn’t Ride A Bike.

    Allegedly.

    July 20, 2019 at 5:18 am #946399
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    Xenophon2

    Give it a rest, let those who

    Give it a rest, let those who don’t believe in helmets take their chances without them, I’ll take mine wearing one.  Live and let live, eh?

    July 19, 2019 at 11:56 pm #946397
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    Organon

    A British surgeon being

    A British surgeon being quoted on an American website. I’d say that sounds a bit anecdotal to me.

    July 19, 2019 at 6:12 pm #946395
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    Nat Jas Moe

    I can say the answer is yes.

    I can say the answer is yes. Having been involved in a RTA recently where I was doing about 15-20 mph and having hit my head on said car, you only need to see the damage to the helmet and the damage to other parts of me to realise that the helmet saved my head significant damage. Would that have been loss of life, hard to say but the damage would have been life changing had I not been wearing one.

    July 19, 2019 at 6:06 pm #946393
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    Boatsie

    Helmet saved my friends life.
    Helmet saved my friends life.
    Downhill, steep.
    A stoned dude was sitting quietly at a switchback. My mate was KO. He’d lost control and headbutted a tree. The foam sandwich helmet was in 3 pieces. A half hour drive to hospital resulted in a question of why we had stopped after 45 seconds although we had been chatting a half hour drive.

    Hearing was impeccable.. Marvelous. In a noisy emergency room filled with speakers my mate had locked on a girl with her boyfriend,
    girl whispering to a nurse 10 metres away wanting an afterwards pill because she was frightened of oven duties.
    That helmet saved him.. He’s a nerd.
    Ever hit black ice, oil loss, tram tracks, rock wedge lodged in mud guard, tyre blow out, sudden change of torque system, wet slippery brake pads, loose bolt, …an unseen parked car?
    Helmets are really useful on this topographic bike paths, road and/or dirt.
    Shaved legs are funny.. We used to pay out tree stump man but he’s correct.. If he slides out he’ll increase probably of graze rather than tear.

    July 19, 2019 at 4:39 pm #946391
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    joeegg

    Looking at the question”do

    Looking at the question”do helmets save lives”,is it a question that really has an answer.You’ll never be able to prove conclusively that a seatbelt or airbag actually saved someone’s life.

     

    So you get into the realms of possibility,and that is generally down to peoples personal interpretations.

    If the question was “can helmets prevent non life threatening injuries” then I’d say yes.

    It would be great to live in a utopia of safe and careful vehicle drivers,but we don’t,and it won’t be happening soon. In view of that I will continue to wear a helmet but won’t denegrate people who decide not to.

    July 19, 2019 at 4:13 pm #946389
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    Anonymous

    When we have stab vests and

    When we have stab vests and helmets for peds and anti rape devices for women then that would be parity to cycle helmet wearing for cyclists, in fact given what we know in terms of risk, these two groups need these garments massively more than people on bikes need their PPE.

    The anti vaccine comment in the first link is oh so typical of an ignorant helmet wearer, people promoting helmets and those pumping out ‘research’ AKA meta-analysis that is clearly flawed, uses data/injuries  that deliberately distorts things and then presents it in a flawed way and flies in the face of the researchers own protocols (yes that’s you Jake Olivier) are dangerous people.

    They literally are causing more deaths and injuries, they are causing removing of freedoms, more victim blaming, more focus on the vulnerable to protect themselves and so on.

    Just fuck off already and bother to look at the data not just in cycling but all sports that use so called PPE that proves without a doubt that helmets/head protection is a massive failure!

    July 19, 2019 at 11:36 am #946387
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    hawkinspeter

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    July 19, 2019 at 11:31 am #946385
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    skwarczek

    Have to add this. One of my

    Have to add this. One of my local club riders doing the Tenby Long course ride.

     

    https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cycling-bike-helmet-safety-tenby-16554231

     

    July 19, 2019 at 11:03 am #946383
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    hawkinspeter

    Well I never!
     

    Well I never!

     

    July 19, 2019 at 10:59 am #946381
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    Sriracha

    Just read the comments
    Just read the comments already there in the linked article. Well reasoned points for and against, with more balance and respect than you’re likely to find over here.

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