Originally Posted by NCbiker
(Post 14908422)
A helmet would be a better solution, but if you want to ride with training wheels and a seat belt, be my guest!
I dunno about training wheels. It's difficult to corner with them above 5 mph. |
Originally Posted by NCbiker
(Post 14908422)
I choose to wear a helmet most of the time and totally understand the capabilities of a cycling helmet.[...]
[...]I don't recall a single time where a helmet saved my life. This does not stop me from wearing one, as it only takes one such event to make all the times I've worn a helmet worth while. |
Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
(Post 14908430)
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I dunno about training wheels. It's difficult to corner with them above 5 mph. |
Originally Posted by sudo bike
(Post 14908505)
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Originally Posted by Juggler2
(Post 14908522)
Do you have any studies to back that up? :rolleyes:
I rarely wear helmets but I'd want to don one for that occasion. I think we have some elbow pads in the shop also. |
That's about the 5th version of the helmet thread, also. Dunno if any of the previous locked ones are still up or got deleted.
I only wear them for special occasions, like going really fast or on sketchy terrain these days. However I wore one any time I was on two wheels from 1988-1998 (or therebouts). I think they're optional. Good for beginners or aggressive riders, or anyone else who wants to wear one. Kinda like some horse riders wear helmets and others don't. Some automobile drivers wear helmets but others don't. Short track speedskaters wear helmets but Longtrack speedskaters don't, etc, etc. |
Originally Posted by NCbiker
(Post 14908526)
Okay, so you think there is no situation where a cycling helmet might save you life and I think there might be. I guess we will just have to agree to disagree.
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Helmets are a fine idea if you're riding in an area that might result in an unexpected tumble, whether from road conditions or other drivers or whatever.
They're hardly a panacea but then again, they're better than nothing if you accidentally bonk your head. |
I wear one on club rides (where unfortunately there's a mandate), but not for most of my utility riding.
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In the summer I wear one, but in the winter I don't because of a big, thick wool cap I wear for warmth. PhotoJoe, have I ever told you that your dog is ugly?:D
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I used to have a winter helmet with no pads that fit great over a toque. I might have to demote my current only helmet to winter helmet status if we get a cold winter this year.
I REALLY like having a helmet for snow/ice days. |
Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
(Post 14908636)
I used to have a winter helmet with no pads that fit great over a toque. I might have to demote my current only helmet to winter helmet status if we get a cold winter this year.
I REALLY like having a helmet for snow/ice days. |
The utility riders I see around town don't generally wear a helmet. The cyclists I see almost always have helmets on. 18 and over it's their choice of course, but under 18 helmets are mandatory in California.
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Originally Posted by PhotoJoe
(Post 14908534)
Hi Starbite,
You are new to the forum, and based on your previous posts, it does not look like you are posting this to start an argument (which happens more than you would think). Anyway, helmet threads almost always end up in a heated debate over whether or not helmets should be worn, people calling each other derogatory names, insulting the other members' mothers and dogs and on occasion, threats of nuclear war. OK, so I'm exaggerating. I don't think I've ever seen anyone insult someone's dog because of a helmet debate. The admin's of the forum have mandated that AS SOON AS a helmet threads turns into whether or not you should wear a helmet, it be merged into the Advocacy and Safety forum's "Helmet Thread". So, we'll leave this here for now - in hopes that everyone can post whether or not they wear a helmet. I expect by page 3 it will have to be moved to A&S. If this were the 41 (Road Forum), it would have to be moved by POST #3. Thanks for understanding. If you want a week's worth of reading about helmets, check it out! :innocent: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...-helmet-thread Oh, and my wife's and my choice is to wear a helmet every time we're on the bike, whether around the block, on the MUP or on the street. |
I'm betting troll. If not, delete the thread and let him read the other ten thousand helmet threads. :D
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Originally Posted by NCbiker
(Post 14908526)
Okay, so you think there is no situation where a cycling helmet might save your life and I think there might be. I guess we will just have to agree to disagree.
Here's how it works here: I intentionally misstate your viewpoints and demand that you answer stupid, insincere questions. Then I demand that you provide independent statistics and studies, all of which I immediately dismiss. I use this emoticon :rolleyes: to indicate I have just said something so unbelievably stupid that it warrants designation by an emoticon. If you ignore me like the twit that I am, I call you a troll. So, getting back to the pity party, do you have any statistics to prove that we have to agree to disagree? :rolleyes: |
It's really not that bad as far as forums go. Been surprisingly civil conversations lately, the ones with mconlonx come to mind...
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Oh Mr Beanz... remember the saying: Come as you are, you will be loved.
But if your a troll we will hunt you! :) |
Personally, I wear one when on my road bike, but for social rides at slow speeds on my "social" bike, I do not.
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Back to the OP . . . The term "most cyclists", do you mean most "serious" cyclists or most people on bikes? In my town the vast majority of people on bikes, especially those using bikes for their basic transportation, don't use helmets. But they ride in street clothes, ride BSOs for the most part, ride on the sidewalks when they can. It's really an interesting sub-culture of bicycle users, and most of them are downtown within a few blocks of the Mexican border (El Paso/Juarez). A lot of the bikes are elaborately set up for utilitarian use, and there's even some cargo trikes in use by a bunch of people riding around looking for items to recycle, especially cardboard. A lot of these riders go back and forth between El Paso and Juarez, and I think some of them use bikes because they don't have to wait in the huge lines of cars.
On the other hand, those of us that consider ourselves "serious" cyclists usually do wear helmets. But I think in this dusty little West Texas town we are by far the minority of cyclists, and it feels a little arrogant to me that I claim to be a "serious" cyclist while dismissing my helmetless bicycle friends downtown. Some day I want to just hang around downtown with a camera and take pictures of some of these bikers. You would see a most interesting array of machinery. But these people are not interested in looking like Lance Armstrong . . . |
I always wear one. The reason I always do, is the worst fall I ever had took place where I least expected it to happen, riding at about 3 mph. Crossing from the road to a MUT, via a parking lot, wandered off the cement strip between the lot and the MUT onto the grass, and trying to edge back on, I caught a raised edge of cement flush against my front sidewall. You guys old enough to remember Laugh-In, where Arte Johnson would tombay? That's exactly how I went down. Hit flush on the helmet, and cracked it. :lol:
In winter, I have a helmet that has an adjusting wheel for the band liner. Easy to enlarge the band and slip it over a skullcap. |
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Originally Posted by chefisaac
(Post 14908122)
I do wear one all the time however it is only my choice and I tend not to preach on the subject. It is whats right for me. I think of it like wearing a seat belt.
My opinion http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=281806 Here are a couple points that I think are important. * Statistically speaking, I think that if somebody is making the choice between riding a bike with no helmet and not riding a bike, that person is better off riding a bicycle than sitting on a couch not doing anything. I think that this is a very important point from a public health point of view and strongly suggests against helmet laws for adults. Note that this is quite different than seatbelt laws: If you refuse to ride in a car because you have to wear a seatbelt, then that is actually an upside of seatbelt laws (I think less car traffic is a good thing). So in this way, I think that seatbelt laws are different than bicycle helmet laws. * As a bicyclist, I think people on bicycles will be safer the more people that we have out there riding bicycles. If passing helmet laws reduces those numbers (and there is some reason to think that it would), then passing helmet laws will make me less safe. Another reason against helmet laws for adults. * There are instances where one is better off not wearing a helmet than wearing a helmet. I believe the evidence suggests, however, that statistically speaking, you are better off wearing a helmet. So when people ask my opinion (or are riding on one of my bicycles), I tell them to wear a helmet. Always. My 3 year old asks me with a worried tone why that person over there on a bicycle isn't wearing a helmet. Cheers, Charles |
Originally Posted by Daves_Not_Here
(Post 14908832)
Oh no, you can't agree to disagree. You must bicker.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
(Post 14908530)
I'm sure I could have my cohort shoot some video of me attempting to corner with training wheels @ 15 mph :)
Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
(Post 14908530)
I rarely wear helmets but I'd want to don one for that occasion. I think we have some elbow pads in the shop also.
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Originally Posted by Daves_Not_Here
(Post 14908832)
Oh no, you can't agree to disagree. You must bicker.
Originally Posted by sudo bike
(Post 14908868)
It's really not that bad as far as forums go. Been surprisingly civil conversations lately, the ones with mconlonx come to mind...
I have little patience with the screeching harpies who form a fanatic but overly vocal minority on either end of this argument. |
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