Originally Posted by D1andonlyDman

It's irrelevant to me whether or not you wear a helmet - it's unnecessary in your case, just as it's not necessary to put a helmet on a bowling ball. And again, it requires quite a lack of reading comprehension skills to claim that my suggestion that wearing a helmet is a good idea in the event one were hit by a car has anything remotely close to the same meaning as "his helmet is going to save his life when he gets hit by a car". There's only one person in this conversation who's illiterate enough to suggest that those two statements have the same meaning, and it's not me. Sorry if you're too uneducated to grasp the quite different meaning of those two entirely distinct statements.

Oh, and perhaps you might elucidate what is typical of a Southern California cyclist. Because at least 98% of my entire existence as a cyclist has been living in the northeast portion of the U.S. I've been a "Southern California cyclist" for less than 3 months, compared to a couple of decades elsewhere.