Originally Posted by
Six jours
"Setting a good example" for the kids, IMO, is about things no one should do, or everyone should do. "This is the correct way to behave in society" sort of stuff. But again, there are all sorts of things adults do that kid aren't allowed to. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, driving, and so on. Kids are completely used to this "double standard". So I still don't buy helmet use as "setting a good example".
WRT the rest, if the average bare-header is looking down his nose at anything, it's at the intentional and aggressive ignorance displayed by the helmeteers who show up to post the usual "organ donor/Darwin candidate/don't expect me to pay for you" routine. As always, I don't believe this thread would exist at all if the helmet advocates would shut up about it.
And again, please don't act as though the helmet nannies are the only ones derailing helmet threads in this forum. Countless times, a forum newb posts a question about which helmet he or she should buy. Clearly, they are planning to buy a helmet, already. They didn't sign up to BF to debate the usefulness of a helmet. Lo and behold, it usually takes less than a day for one of the bare-head brigade to fly in and tell them how they are wasting their money on a helmet. The the tread gets locked or merged into the helmet thread.