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I have read the following and found it thought provoking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_helmet Even before reading that, I had decided that cycling away from traffic does not, for me, require use of a helmet. If and when (last week I'm afraid it was when) I fall from a bike, it will be a fall from more or less my own height sideways at a low speed. Even as I get faster, I doubt it would be merrited.

Anyway, I am interested in the considered, mutually respected opinions of other. Any takers?[/QUOTE]

I had a cycling accident 2 years ago and I was on a side street no traffic and I was wearing a helmet and spent a month in the hospital and a month laid up at home with a brain injury. If not for the helmet I would be dead. To this day I have no memory of what happened and the docs say I most likely will not remember. So go ahead don't wear a helmet things can't happen to you if theres no traffic.