Originally Posted by
Liddy
Thank you. That's thought provoking. I haven't entirely decided not to wear one. I am just tootling around my local small Victorian Park at the moment. There is nowhere for anything to come out of the blue there and (having only just learned to pedal), I don't have the bottle to ride down hill yet
Someone asked if it occurred to me that posters here all have a lot of cycling experience. I do get that and I am listening. I still don't think I need a helmet for the tootling, but I am open to taking account of others' reasonably presented views and I may well decide to wear one when I venture further.
As I said before, I'm mulling it over.
OK - so I get your point, you feel your risks are way low and so therefore you don't need the extra protection. Let me try another argument on you - just what if some young child sees you tootling around and observes your lack of helmet, then when Mom is not looking goes off and tootles around without a helmet because that nice lady adult roll model thought it was the right thing to do. Lets just say that was one of your kids or grandkids (I apologize for the assumptions here). Then that kid takes a fall and splatters their brains all over the sidewalk. Now was it worth it. It is just not
US - there are others watching. My daughter would not let me ride with her if I was not wearing my helmet - even she gets it.
Enough said - this thread is off my response list - like trying to teach a pig to sing, you just get frustrated and it makes the pig angry.