Originally Posted by
DaSy
My main objection to all this debate is the stance that the majority of the pro-helmet people, that those who choose not to wear a helmet are in some way idiotic bufoons, because they chose not to see the risk in the same way as them.
I would politely counter with the notion that people with cycling injuries (such as the gentleman over in the
Wear your helmet! thread who posed with the Campagnolo cage screwed to his head) who believe that a helmet would have helped them, are roundly dismissed by the anti-helmet crowd, often with mockery and ridicule.
It is a never-ending debate, and while sucked into it at one time, I now leave it at this: If you want to ride without a helmet, go right ahead. I will ride with one and hope neither of us meet in the hospital.