Originally Posted by mconlonx

I'm not going to say you will die if you ride without a helmet... OK, you will die even if you don't wear a helmet, but let me rephrase that: I don't think not wearing a helmet will increase your chances of dying in a cycling accident or sustaining a serious head injury, but I also don't think wearing a helmet will increase my chances of the same. And if all it does is help mitigate "non-serious" head injury in the case of accidents, then helmet use is something I will continue with.