Originally Posted by buzzman

Steve, there is currently a "Helmet Thread" in the Advocacy and Safety forum of BF that has a wealth of opinions on this subject, all of which have been expressed ad nauseum for literally thousands of posts and for several years.

It would be worthwhile for you to peruse that thread before relaunching this contentious dialogue in the otherwise friendly Commuting Forum. As far as "pro-helmet" criticisms I think you'll find that the Helmet thread tends to be dominated by the same players, saying the same things again and again with what seems a higher percentage of non-helmeted riders dominating the discussion (in fact, one prolific non-helmeted poster has almost 10,000 posts on the subject) despite the poll results showing a much larger percentage of helmet wearers as having responded to the poll.