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.
I'm glad youre alright. Im interested to hear what sort of accident you can have while riding all alone, that lays you up for a month in hospital. and at home with brain injury.
What did you do to yourself? More importantly, maybe the rest of us can learn from your mistake, if you share it with us.
I agree - things can happen to you. At any time. You can be struck by a car in the grocery star parking lot, for example.
But your incident puzzles me, in particular, because I've ridden for 40+ years, long before we heard of helmets, and have never been hurt while riding alone - unless I, myself, did something to get into trouble.