Your post is full of all of my favorite anti-helment rationales - at speed it won't save me, I'm too hot, I won't give in to the fear, made it to adulthood just fine, if that truck has my number, I'm gone anyway.

You don't want to wear one, don't. But as with every one of these threads, I'm at a loss as to why people feel compelled to brag about it as though it's some sort of original thought. Does no more helmet rank as one of life's major epiphanies?

I've cracked two in the last two years. Both stupid, slow speed turns, couldn't get unclipped, one right out in front of my house after riding 10 yards. Two helmets that prevented a big, bloody, hair-gunked-up patch of scalp. I doubt I would've died, I might not even have had a concussion. I don't wear a helmet to avoid consussions nor to avoid dying, I wear one because it's bad enough to go 6 weeks with big bloody oozing patches on my knees elbows and shoulders, I'd rather not have one on my head too.

And as to Pros, well personally, I think they're stupid. But they have this whole bad boy macho jock tradition thing to live up to that we, as regular citizens, in theory, don't. You can be sure they don't get up in the morning and decide at the team meeting that their helmet is superfluous. I think they just don't give a hoot.