Why you wear a helmet
04-04-09, 03:59 PM
#1
The mods changed this...
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 2,346
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Why you wear a helmet
Short version...
Stood to accelerate, slipped the gear, went over the bars @ 25mph or so. Landed on left rear side of shoulder, back and head. Scuffed from ankle to top of shoulder. Grade 2+ concussion. No internal injuries or broken bones. Very stiff and sore today. Still have a ripping headache...very foggy and slow. I remember s few weird details from last night, but the broad strokes are blank. Maybe that's a good thing.
Helmet has 10+ cracks in it and the back is smashed flat. It's even cracked in the very front, on the forehead portion. It took some serious energy when I augered in.
Bike is an unknown. Haven't looked at it yet...a bit afraid to...
Brady Bunch moral...
Wear your helmet, even if it's to go to the mailbox. Make your kids wear theirs. Make your neighbors' kids put one on. Buy them one if they don't have a helmet!
Mine saved me from serious injury and possibly being a BIGGER drooling idiot.
04-04-09, 04:01 PM
#2
Lost
ouch, hope everything works out ok.
04-04-09, 04:01 PM
#3
Senior Member
I've been down 10 times in 25 years and broken 6 helmets. Wouldn't ride without one.
04-04-09, 05:50 PM
#6
trois, mon frère
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Gainesville/Miami, FL
Posts: 576
Bikes: '01 Gary Fisher Wahoo, '08 Giant TCR C2
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
It still looks like it will work.
You haven't checked your bike? There is not way you are a real cyclist. I always check the bike before I've done the "self checkup".
You haven't checked your bike? There is not way you are a real cyclist. I always check the bike before I've done the "self checkup".
04-04-09, 05:56 PM
#7
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 113
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I would say that the helmet seriously contributed to the fact that you can still type full sentences and communicate ideas on a message board! 
04-04-09, 06:05 PM
#8
moth -----> flame
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 5,916
Bikes: 11 CAAD 10-4, 07 Specialized Roubaix Comp, 98 Peugeot Horizon
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 2 Times
in
2 Posts
Nasty. Glad it did its job.
__________________
BF, in a nutshell
BF, in a nutshell
04-04-09, 06:48 PM
#11
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 459
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I was rear ended, and my helmet just exploded on impact. If it wasn't for the helmet my head may have just exploded. I still needed my scalp to be staples 
04-04-09, 07:01 PM
#12
Light-Weight by Design
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 711
Bikes: TCR Carbon Limited
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
That brain bucket served its purpose and saved your brain.
You want some brownies to help you feel better?
You want some brownies to help you feel better?
04-04-09, 07:31 PM
#14
Hills hurt.. Couches kill
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Brazil, IN
Posts: 3,370
Bikes: 1991 Specialized Sirrus Triple, 2010 Trek Madone 6.5 Project One, 2012 Cannondale Caad10, 2013 Trek Crockett
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 3 Times
in
3 Posts
Glad to see it did it's job, get well soon.
04-04-09, 07:37 PM
#15
The mods changed this...
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 2,346
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
04-04-09, 07:42 PM
#16
stole your bike
After splitting my helmet in two when I crashed into a tree I never ride without one.
__________________
I like pie
I like pie
04-04-09, 09:20 PM
#17
well hello there
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Point Loma, CA
Posts: 15,430
Bikes: Bill Holland (Road-Ti), Fuji Roubaix Pro (back-up), Bike Friday (folder), Co-Motion (tandem) & Trek 750 (hybrid)
Mentioned: 6 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 503 Post(s)
Liked 336 Times
in
206 Posts
04-04-09, 09:26 PM
#18
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Torrance, CA
Posts: 1,113
Bikes: '06 Specialized Allez Expert
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
04-04-09, 09:51 PM
#19
You gonna eat that?
Same here... except it was an endo culminating in a perfect face plant.
__________________
I stop for people / whose right of way I honor / but not for no one.
Originally Posted by bragi 
"However, it's never a good idea to overgeneralize."
I stop for people / whose right of way I honor / but not for no one.
Originally Posted by bragi "However, it's never a good idea to overgeneralize."
04-04-09, 09:52 PM
#20
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: costa mesa, ca
Posts: 719
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I took my first header today. Slipped on some ice and back of my head cracked the road - hard. Scared the heck out of me. W/O a helmet I think I'd be in the ER now.
04-04-09, 09:59 PM
#21
Senior Member
04-04-09, 10:03 PM
#22
Senior Member
Ah yes, the old fallacy that a broken helmet definitively proves that it did jack squat to prevent serious injury.
For the record, I wear a helmet, but I am sick to death of the idiocy. Helmets break ALL THE TIME. The number of averted deaths or serious head trauma doesn't even come close to the number of broken helmets. This should be superficially obvious based on the sheer number of people saying "My helmet saved my life!!!" Chances are that such a insanely high rate of head injury death among cyclists would have prompted much earlier adoption of helmets.
Wear your helmet. Please. Stop assuming that the condition of your helmet after a crash tells you anything about head injury aversion. It doesn't. You can certainly die with a helmet on, and it happens all the time. Be careful out there.
For the record, I wear a helmet, but I am sick to death of the idiocy. Helmets break ALL THE TIME. The number of averted deaths or serious head trauma doesn't even come close to the number of broken helmets. This should be superficially obvious based on the sheer number of people saying "My helmet saved my life!!!" Chances are that such a insanely high rate of head injury death among cyclists would have prompted much earlier adoption of helmets.
Wear your helmet. Please. Stop assuming that the condition of your helmet after a crash tells you anything about head injury aversion. It doesn't. You can certainly die with a helmet on, and it happens all the time. Be careful out there.
04-04-09, 10:08 PM
#23
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: san diego
Posts: 2,981
Bikes: custom caad9
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 3 Times
in
3 Posts
i used to HATE wearing them...because they were so gae of course...the week i started using one (the girl insisted) i decided to fly over my bars and break it in half...after that i didnt hesitate to drop $200 on another one...i really feel weird without it now.
04-04-09, 10:32 PM
#24
Passista
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 7,597
Bikes: 1998 Pinarello Asolo, 1992 KHS Montaña pro, 1980 Raleigh DL-1, IGH Hybrid, IGH Utility
Mentioned: 5 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 866 Post(s)
Liked 721 Times
in
396 Posts
First, glad you're OK!
You have the right to believe your helmet saved your life, but that's an assumption. You can't prove it. It's just common sense. I could not believe it and I'd be right too. FTR, I wear a helmet often because I believe it gives some protection in most scenarios - i. e. "better than nothing".
OK, flame me now...
You have the right to believe your helmet saved your life, but that's an assumption. You can't prove it. It's just common sense. I could not believe it and I'd be right too. FTR, I wear a helmet often because I believe it gives some protection in most scenarios - i. e. "better than nothing".
OK, flame me now...
Last edited by Reynolds; 04-05-09 at 07:00 AM.
04-04-09, 10:36 PM
#25
Banned.
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Woodstock
Posts: 5,761
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
My Ex-Girlfriend's brother (and father, and cousin, and cousin, and uncle) was a Fireman. One day she was nagging me to wear the helmet. Her brother walked up---all 6'3 250lbs of him and said "Tim, i don't want to come scrape your brains off the road...so wear the ****ing helmet!"