Originally Posted by
graywolf
You fell, so I should wear a helmet?
Of course I have only been riding bicycles for 55 years or so, but then I walk my bike across oily wet railroad tracks.
In a perfect, happy, world the roads would be free of cars and have no tire grabbing cracks, dogs intent on chasing bikes, or children running into my way and all would be good.
As it is, I'll ride with a helmet. You do as you wish, within the law, but don't expect the government to try to pour what's left of your brains back into what's left of your skull after some idiot hits you.
I hate helmet arguments, but feel the need to chime in.
I've been riding over 50 years, and have only needed a helmet twice, neither time through any fault of my own. I can type this because I has a helmet on both times. YMMV