By now everyone posting here knows I support at least a modicum of safety when cycling. That of course includes a helmet.

Since this forum wanders some, let me give you another example of cycling safety. I ride my tadpole trike about half the time. I use clip in pedals rather than just platform pedals. If you are not clipped in your foot may slip off the pedals in a bump, and get partially pulled under the frame causing scrapes and maybe a broken foot.

The bottom line here is that personal safety falls in the line of common sense and logic. There for in my case when on the trike I wear a helmet and use clip in pedals. And that is in light that on my trike, as low as I sit the need for a helmet is probably the lowest in any form of cycling. It still remains that sh---stuff happens.