bentrox!

If you go down hard at speed, your head is still vunerable, even on a bent, on which an "endo" is unlikely. A crash can slam your head onto the pavement, curb, tree, car, whatever - and it won't take much of a slam to crack your skull - only 12 pounds, I've read. That's where a helmet can perhaps spare you from a lifetime vegetative state. If strapping a piece of padded plastic to my head will give me that edge, I'll do it whenever I ride because an "it'll-never-happen-to-me" attitude is not going to do that for you.

Honestly, I simply don't get why some riders don't want to "bother" with helmets. I've crashed three times on my bent - it can happen no matter how little traffic there is or how safely you ride. Though none of the incidents resulted in head contact, it does cause me to ponder the consequences of such a scenario if it had and without helmet. I shudder to think about it, more so for my wife and child and their future without me...