Yeah, I know what you mean.

No one has been able to show that cyclists receive more than their fair share of head injuries. If it could be shown that cyclists are say, twice as likely than, say, pedestrians or motorists, to receive head injuries then that would be different and it would make much more sense to advocate more strongly for helmets, but that's not the case. Even the leading helmet advocates cannot show this. What a boost it would be for them if they could.

The vast majority of cyclists all over the world do not wear helmets and those cyclists are not flooding the hospitals.

"We often associate head injuries with a younger male population, who are considered to be risk-takers, but the statistics from CIHI’s report and our experience indicate that head injuries are also important among seniors and women," explains Dr. Robert Summerfield, a neurologist with North York General Hospital.

Some have a distorted idea of the problem of head injuries to cyclists that needs to be put into perspective. The sky is not falling.