Originally Posted by Six jours

As a permanent resident of that thread, I can tell you that it is an obnoxious waste of time.

Sadly, helmet threads often start with the potential for interesting discussion, but are soon perverted by smug and arrogant "Wear a helmet if you value your brain" and "I had my life saved a dozen times by my helmet just this week!!!" posts, followed shortly by acres of studies and endless mud slinging, and then into the cesspool of the A&S thread.

I have to admit, though, that I'm slightly surprised to see so much mindless helmeteering on a vintage thread. Folks who were riding 20 or 30 years ago tend to realize that cycling isn't really a very dangerous activity, or at least doesn't have to be. To hear the number of lives "saved" by helmets on this thread, you'd think that cycling in the pre-hardshell days would have produced a 50% mortality rate.

But what do I know. Maybe falling off and landing on your head is the new normal. You guys are welcome to it, I guess.