Originally Posted by mikeshoup

I don't think this is really cause to not wear a helmet. This type of brain injury seems rare... but then again, brain injuries are rare to begin with.

The real key to preventing these types of injuries, is helping riders learn how not to flip over their handlebars and to prevent other serious types of crashes. Its crash prevention over injury mitigation.



Seems backwards we focus so much in this forum on helmets, yet, there isn't very many good discussions about safe bicycling techniques, avoiding crashes, etc.