Mountain Biking - 20 Stupid (or non stupid) reasons to wear a good helmet while mountain biking.

My friend (a member here) WHO DOES NOT WEAR A HELMET needs a knock in the head. Rest assured I will PM him this thread. Soooooooo.... Let's tell him why.



Reason #1. You got a five dollar head, wear a five dollar helmet.

Reason #2 you don't like your food to have the consistency of mush. Due to losing teeth and the possible broken jaw.

Reason #3. The rescue team needs something shiny to reflect the beam of their flashlights when they are looking for your cold dead body in the woods.

Reason #4:You really don't want to be just like Stephen Hawkings.

Reason #5: Al Wong.

Reason #6:You really don't want to be just like Stephen Hawkings.

Reason #7: You pull stunts like Sunny Bono did when skiing.

Reason #4:You really don't want to be just like Stephen Hawkings.

Yep.


Reason #5: Al Wong.


:( :cry:



Reason #6:You really don't want to be just like Stephen Hawkings.

You're a dork. :rolleyes:

#8: You don't want to have free wifi access right to your brain from the metal plate they had to install from hitting your head against a rock.

#9: Helmet hair can be corrected.

#10: You'll get new tan lines.

#11 You can have a cool hair style like me.

:lol:

lol, i really dont know what to say other than haha, and i definitively planed on getting a helmet before i got out on the trails riding. I much more... let me fix that, with the way i am im guaranteed to fall at least a few times. Im one to enjoy pushing my limits :p

#12 You'll feel better protected with ~1cm of polystyrene on your head and will therefore feel able to take bigger risks.

Because ladies don't like comatose dudes with diaper rash???
It's easier to go all out knowing I can whack my head w/o really worrying much, if absolutely necessary.
I like my head to be more the shape of a grape than a wrinkled raisin.
Brains are for inside my head, not outside.
Because "It looks dorky" or "It feels uncomfortable" is a lame ass excuse.

Best reason for me:
What I learned from smashing my head on a rock at high & speed cracking the helmet is:
When you fall even on the most mundane surface your body can land in a way where you have NO control over preventing your head from smashing into whatever hard surface is there.
It was incredible! But my head felt so comfy, had no helmet been there my skull would have broke.

Riding MTB, eventually you will fall and you will hit your head.

(Also wear eye protection. You might poke your eye out, kid.)

^^^ Says the one eyed master. *bows*

Fantastic reminder, Ken. Thank you.

Reason #13 Cool Titanium hardware to put your skull back together.

Cause I can't afford to buy more bike bling if I can't work - and I need my brain (and hand-eye coordination for my job).

#14. Covers your bald spots and/or liver spots.

Covers up the John Deere logo on your trucker hat. No sense advertising for free.

#15 Because if you rock the full face + goggles, no one can tell who the hack who keeps crashing is.

Bonus: And when you hit your head, you can get back on the bike and ride away before they come over and figure out who you are!

#16 Because your ex is still on your will.

I don't buy helmets because of Fashion. I buy them when I break them. normally about every 12 to 18months. In 20 years of cycling-I have only been concussed once. That helmet was in 3 pieces on the ground.

Best reason for me:
What I learned from smashing my head on a rock at high & speed cracking the helmet is:
When you fall even on the most mundane surface your body can land in a way where you have NO control over preventing your head from smashing into whatever hard surface is there.
It was incredible! But my head felt so comfy, had no helmet been there my skull would have broke.

A fall like that can happen when you least expect it too, it doesn't even need to be on a trail..

Few years ago I was riding down my street, and a few kids were kicking a ball around. One of them decided it would be funny to kick it in my general direction, but due to the way the ball bounced (Keep in mind this was an Aussie football - egg-shaped) it rolled under my front wheel. Despite my relatively low speed, I went over the bars and hit my head directly on the corner of a concrete gutter. Had I not been wearing a helmet, that would have done some serious damage.

So you can add *enlightened contributions* to *productive discussions* such as this one:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?540354-Helmets-cramp-my-style-Part-2

#17 Scar tissue is ugly and with your face, you don't need to loose ground. Look at me and understand!

#16 Because your ex is still on your will.


This is the best one of all..
completely awesome!

#17 Scar tissue is ugly and with your face, you don't need to loose ground. Look at me and understand!

Scars RAWK!

#18 Peer pressure.
#19 So I don't burn my head with my 900lm bike light.

Reason #20: You really don't want to be just like Stephen Hawkings.

I lived through one major crash without a helmet and do not want to push my luck.

A fall like that can happen when you least expect it too, it doesn't even need to be on a trail..

Tell me about it. I fall more on hard surfaces than dirt.

Tell me about it. I fall more on hard surfaces than dirt.
Good enough fall and dirt is a hard surface.

Riding MTB, eventually you will fall and you will hit your head.

(Also wear eye protection. You might poke your eye out, kid.)

I really should get some. I lost my oakleys after 3 days. Huge friggen let down.

Head injuries are too expensive right now :)

I love a good helmet advocacy circle jerk.

Reason #5: Al Wong.

Was that ever confirmed? I did a bunch of fruitless searching in the news immediately after cream.soda posted that story and for a while subsequently.

Was that ever confirmed? I did a bunch of fruitless searching in the news immediately after cream.soda posted that story and for a while subsequently.

I searched as well, but to no prevail. I believe a friend of his family created an account and posted some stuff in the bmx forum.

Edit: Found it, was in this forum.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?314373-***Stories-Pictures-and-Videos-of-Rev-Monkey-***#post4737875

It makes bumping my head while getting my bike out of the basement painless.

Was that ever confirmed? I did a bunch of fruitless searching in the news immediately after cream.soda posted that story and for a while subsequently.Here is what Brian had in his Industry Outsider blog:

http://www.industryoutsider.com/?p=129

Article from York Region News, Dateline Markham, Ontario, Canada:

http://www.yorkregion.com/News/Markham/article/33071

You are still sorely missed, Al.

Was that ever confirmed? I did a bunch of fruitless searching in the news immediately after cream.soda posted that story and for a while subsequently.Here is what Brian had in his Industry Outsider blog:

http://www.industryoutsider.com/?p=129

Article from York Region News, Dateline Markham, Ontario, Canada:

http://www.yorkregion.com/News/Markham/article/33071

You are still sorely missed, Al.

Thanks for relocating that Doug.

I pass through Markville about once a month and I'm reminded of Revmonkey every time.

Do I always wear a lid when I ride? Yes.

Do I think an inch of Styrofoam can prevent many of these deaths? No.

Snell Memorial Foundation may beg to differ.

Come to think of it, an inch of styrofoam inside a nice fibergals shell did wonders for me in a 50 mph pileup at Hannegan Speedway in Bellingham, WA back around 1972.

I used to give Al so much crap for this:

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o286/Flycrow/revmonkey.gif

Haha!! Do you all remember that?


:(


OH and FYI ~ My friend took his new bike out for its virgin mtb ride. He wore a full faced helmet that he borrowed.

He biffed it good. Real good. From what I understand landed on the side of his face.

Glad he wore that helmet. Thanks for all of your support.

Snell Memorial Foundation may beg to differ.

Indeed.

Fun fact: I commuted to work this morning wearing a ASTM F-1952 certified lid. But in a high-speed-car-overtaking accident of the type I've been reading so frequently lately? I might as well be wearing my tinfoil hat.

Note that I live in a town where cyclists riding legally get run over by cement trucks, and the cyclist's lack of a helmet seems to the be the focal point of the accident investigation.

But I'll keep my BS on the "helmets" thread in A&S, if the mods stop deleting it.

My helmet almost certainly saved my life recently.

I was hitting a jump at a local spot, thought to myself "yeah, this time I'll really go for it and not brake before hitting it" and... went completely over the bars, landed on my head and elbows. I couldn't move for a few minutes, thought I was going to have to get airlifted. After I managed to get up, I noticed my helmet was wobbling about. Turns out it had cracked on impact in about fifty different places. I'd rather the helmet have taken the impact then my head. I might post pics at some point (I'm not at home at the moment) because it serves as a good reminder, even my cyclist friends were freaked out by it.

You are very very lucky. Good thing you did wear the helmet. I'd be interested to see a pic of it please.

Back before we used to have guns or knives i'm pretty sure we tried to hit people on the head with rocks to kill them. If you are deep in the woods and encounter a cromag man like polly shore did and u have a helmet on then when he tries to kill you(mistaking you for some type of gazelle or perhaps attempting to steal rachel welch) you will have rendered his mode of attack useless!

If you don't have a helmet on then you probably haven't evolved much since cromagnon man's time and will likely become tonight's roast.

Makes it a bit more comfortable to head-butt that bike-jacker in the face.

Man its been a couple sense i was last on :(... ok...


#15 Because if you rock the full face + goggles, no one can tell who the hack who keeps crashing is.

Bonus: And when you hit your head, you can get back on the bike and ride away before they come over and figure out who you are!

Personally i love the look of FF + Goggles, and i think that is the best reason i have heard so far :p


I love a good helmet advocacy circle jerk.

Most interesting, and strangely appropriate place i have ever seen "Circle Jerk" used in my life


Back before we used to have guns or knives i'm pretty sure we tried to hit people on the head with rocks to kill them. If you are deep in the woods and encounter a cromag man like polly shore did and u have a helmet on then when he tries to kill you(mistaking you for some type of gazelle or perhaps attempting to steal rachel welch) you will have rendered his mode of attack useless!

If you don't have a helmet on then you probably haven't evolved much since cromagnon man's time and will likely become tonight's roast.

With that i think that is the most in depth and creative argument i have ever heard about helmets and duly noted fo sho :D :p