Originally Posted by
Six jours
You claim all this expertise (not to mention the "fact based life" business) but you write such nonsensical things. Getting run over by a car - just as an example - is "not pretty", regardless of whether the fellow is wearing a bit of foam on his head. Anybody who truly understands bicycle helmets and has first-hand experience with the results of car-bike collisions intuitively understand that. And anybody who truly believes that the results of not wearing a bicycle helmet can be expected to be "not pretty" is either a truly horrible cyclist or completely uninformed.
It is a colloquialism for "a really bad result" so in some sense he's agreeing with you about the potential severity of a collision.
There are skilled and informed cyclists who wear helmets in traffic, so you should re-examine your last statement. They might still be wrong, but your perception that it is self-evident is the red flag - the majority of people who are knowledgeable about something are not going to miss or be ignorant of something which is self-evident to you.
I wonder if you're assuming that any collision with a car must imply a certain level of severity, such as "Getting run over" as you said above. You are certain to have multiple traumatic injuries, most likely fatal, as if it were the same as a fall from a great height - is that it?