Helmets!

[mattr]

Tbh, that's all they are any good for. Turning very very minor crashes into non events.

If I slip while getting the bike from the front door to the drive, it might help. Slightly.
For the entirety of the actual ride it serves no purpose in the event of an accident. Unless I slip on the way from the bike to the cafe.

And a useful thing to remember is that the plural of anecdote isn't evidence.

 

[The Ken]

A plurality of anecdotes follow...

I've seen several cracked helmets and had a school buddy in a coma for 3 months, all the people with cracked helmets walked away from speedy off road smashes, a few involving impact with rocks, the guy in a coma hit his head of a kerb with no helmet on whilst riding on a road and slipping on gravel.

Wearing a helmet is a personal choice but the effect it has on your family members means it isn't just yourself you should actually be thinking about. Wear one or don't wear one make your own risk assessment.

What I do think is wrong though is biasing the argument in saying that they don't really work and are only designed for a 1m drop test on to a curb. Yes that might be the test they are designed for for compliance regulations, but they do protect from more than that scenario, and they are certainly better than having nothing to reduce friction between your skull and the rock.

Yes it is TV packaging - a product that protects TV's and other fragile technologies from journeys of thousands of miles and is drop tested to assess performance (I've watched this in test labs). No reason why it doesn't offer the similar types of protection to our equally fragile heads.

 

[k-rod]

well said.

 

[Mike Muz]

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Wel ok then, I'll join in again :roll:

I was knocked off my bike on a roundabout years ago. Didn't even know I'd hit my head until I saw the crack going right across the inside of my Specialized Airforce helmet, shows how long ago it was.
It was black on the inside, that's how I noticed it.
Had that been my head . . . .

Do they have a lifespan, like motorcycle helmets?

Mike

 

[firedfromthecircus]

So the hoary old argument that it's not about you, it's about your loved ones rears its ugly head. That is the most disgusting type of emotional blackmail the helmet lobbyists trot out. "If you don't wear a helmet you don't love your kids."
The helmet manufacturers really hit the gold mine with their marketing given how many folk seem to buy into it.
Let us not forget that most of us on here are of an age where we learnt to ride as kids without helmets. Most of us fell of our bikes innumerable times and yet most of us are still here.
I'm pro choice, and even wear one of my collection of helmets nearly always when off road, and sometimes even on road, but let's not kid ourselves about their effectiveness. Slightly more use than a chocolate fireguard, but not much.
And quit with the emotional blackmail. It's worse than the name calling.

 

[The History Man]

The other day i tripped over my helmet and banged my head on the shelf under the stairs. Sort that one out.


I could choose to live in a bungalow i suppose. All for choice.

 

[Gaddmeister]

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Where your helmet around the house! :-D

 

[jimi911]

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Lets all get these ...

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwueAI8uXjg[/youtube]

Should be great in the brush

 

[Gaddmeister]

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Get what? Cant see anything.

 

[jimi911]

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Get what? Cant see anything.

Hmmm ... I see it. Goofy YouTube inflatable helmet thingy.