Originally Posted by MicZic

I'm off to buy a helmet today.... For the last year I've listened to people telling me to wear a weiner hat and I paid no attention. I thought I was smarter, I thought that riding in the city if I was gonna get into an incident it was going to be worse then a simple knock on the head. From my years trail riding on a honda xr I thought only a full face glass helmet was worth wearing.....on and on I had an excuse.

Now I've spent the last 7 weeks with a 3 pins in my hand because of the stupidest ****ing accident and luckily traded a 6 foot pavement drop on the head for a dislocated shoulder. I wasn't wearing a helmet and the only thing that kept the side of my head from hitting the ground was some quick thinking and a well placed arm.

I spent the night in the hospital talking to doctors and nurses all pushing hellmet advocacy but they were very honest. They said you don't wear a helmet for the worst case scenerio, you wear it for the one day you get into an incident that should have only left some nasty road rash but instead your parents are changing calaustomy bag.

It made a lot of sense, you don't wear a helmet to guard you from SUV's and cars, you were it to guard you against those freak accidents that do and likely WILL happen.