Originally Posted by
Monster Pete
It is indeed your personal choice, but please don't just take a helmet's protection for granted- they are designed to do less than you might think. For example, they are not designed for a collision with a motor vehicle- they are tested only for a simple fall onto the ground at zero speed. If the human anatomy was incapable of dealing with this kind of accident, we would have died out a long time ago.
You make it sound almost as if you wouldn't mind falling and hitting your head, even at a 0 mph/kph. After all, the human body is resilient
Remember, too, that a supposedly "simple fall onto the ground at zero speed" is what hospitalizes or kills hundreds of thousands each year--you needn't be moving at 30mph or get hit by a car to hurt your head from a fall. Further, what appears at first to be a minor bump on the head can in fact be a more serious or even fatal condition.
http://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/statistics.html
http://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/causes.html
http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreation...dultfalls.html
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-18/h...y?_s=PM:HEALTH
etc.