Originally Posted by
CB HI
I know that is the claim, but the mishap investigation I did on a female cyclist collision with another cyclist left her with a concussion and no crumpled foam. Helmets do help prevent bruises for kids and mountain bikers. For those that want to prevent head injuries, stop crashing (works for other injuries as well).
Obviously helmets will not help if you get into a 1-on-1 with a semi-trailer, but they absolutely can mitigate a potentially dangerous/painful head injury from a minor collision or fall.
The naysayers seem only concerned with fatal or life-threatening injuries when non-serious head injuries - which helmets are best designed for - occur possibly hundreds of times every day around the world.
A helmet can not only prevent death (sometimes) but reduces extreme discomfort and pain in the event your head contacts the curb or something hard when you fall.
It's easy for the helmet-haters to downplay the protection when your head is largely intact, and to point excitedly at its apparent uselessness when your head is smashed open.
You might as well say a bulletproof vest is useless because your head and limbs can still get shot. So why wear one at all? Apparently they'd rather be protected 100% or not at all.