Originally Posted by skelly
I'd rather find out the answer to this question with a helmet on.
haha me too!
my take on helmets is this: if you're in for serious head trauma, helmets ain't gonna help you. If you are involved in an accident at low speeds, a helmet might save you quite a bit of road-rash to your face, maybe stitches, might prevent a slight concussion, might make a more major concussion a slight concussion... so that being said, I always wear my helmet. My friend john wiped out and skidded for 30 feet or so, he got knocked out for about 30 minutes, and still had road rash on his face, but without the helmet, I do believe he'd be missing half his face and might possibly have had some more serious head trauma.