this may have been covered. no pun intended. while i will agree that wearing a helmet will increase the overall size of your head, i cant see the weight issue. the weight of the helmet i wear has to measured on one of those scales at the register in the grocery store. what is that like twice the weight of a balloon i blew up myself? i had another annalogy, but this is a family page just my opinion, but i think having more accidents while wearing a helmet may be due to a lot of people thinking, oh i have a helmet. now i can do stupid stuff. what are they putting in that helmet, goulash???? supposed to be a brain in there somewhere.