Originally Posted by insylem (Post 17005640)

Do manufactures want crashed helmets returned to them for research and study? Or should I just trash mine?

Originally Posted by rekmeyata (Post 17006113)

Well just think, if you hadn't been wearing that helmet you might have lived.

Originally Posted by CarinusMalmari (Post 17008092)

Actually it's the helmet advocate crowd which tend to treat bicycle accidents as a virtual death sentence. That kind of hysterical nonsense is fairly uncommon among normal people, who generally consider a helmet as either optional or unnecessary, but typically not as (particularly) dangerous.

Originally Posted by rekmeyata (Post 17008304)

Really? Please show me a post where someone said that having any accident while riding a bike is a death sentence. Talk about someone going hysterical!

Originally Posted by CarinusMalmari (Post 17008765)

Every other ABHSML post implies what I said.

Originally Posted by CarinusMalmari (Post 17008765)

Every other ABHSML post implies what I said.

Originally Posted by mconlonx (Post 17008953)

No, most state clearly, rather than by implication, by the very nature of the post,: "If I wasn't wearing a helmet, I surely would have been killed!"

Originally Posted by Six jours (Post 17007005)

Hello everyone. Today I went for a bike ride. I did not fall. I did not hit my head. I do not need a new helmet.

In other words, today was like every other day of my life to this point.

<edit>In a way, I feel bad for those of you who never experienced the sport back when it was safe; back before it became "extreme" and crashing was considered a normal and expected part of the experience. But in a much bigger way, I am pissed at all you idiots who turned the sport into a crash-filled free-for-all; an outdoor spin class where matching kit and $10,000 bicycles are more important than pack manners and common sense.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm really not interested in your stories about how you can't manage to stay on a bicycle but thank god you were wearing a helmet. I just wish you all would live or die or whatever, just as long as you do it somewhere else.

Originally Posted by rydabent (Post 17010117)

Just because some of us think it is wise to wear a helmet, it is not reason to believe that we think cycling is dangerous.

Originally Posted by rydabent (Post 17010117)

Just because some of us think it is wise to wear a helmet, it is not reason to believe that we think cycling is dangerous. I have been forced to buy cars with air bags for many years now. Mine have never gone off.

Originally Posted by Six jours (Post 17010076)

I've been lurking. For some reason I have had several months of lucidity during which posting to BF seemed like a complete waste of time. That episode seems to have passed.

Oh, and I went for another bike ride today. I did not land on my head. Weird, eh?

Originally Posted by MMACH 5 (Post 17009625)

While this is true, it's usually not the Helmeteer regulars making those claims. For the most part, it's newbs who happen upon the thread, rub one out and never return.

Originally Posted by 350htrr (Post 17010323)

I went from one of those "it saved my life" guys, to I still think it helped me when I needed it... :thumb:

Originally Posted by mconlonx (Post 17008953)

No, most state clearly, rather than by implication, by the very nature of the post,: "If I wasn't wearing a helmet, I surely would have been killed!"

Originally Posted by mconlonx (Post 17011302)

I still wear a helmet, but for the right reasons, not misconceptions.

Originally Posted by mr_bill (Post 17016637)

Well thank $DEITY that you have the "right reasons" and are here to educate the masses.

(Could it be that you wore a helmet for misconceptions, and now still wear a helmet (or not) for a different set of misconceptions? Nah.)

-mr. bill

Originally Posted by mconlonx (Post 17016769)

Medical "minor" injury can be still fairly traumatic from a personal POV... Do you doubt that helmets can prevent or mitigate less than serious head injuries? In the rare instance that one crashes their bike and even rarer instance that it involves a headstrike?

Originally Posted by mr_bill (Post 17016789)

I don't doubt that. I also don't doubt that they can mitigate more serious head injuries, but the bullies here won't allow that to be said aloud.

-mr. bill

Originally Posted by Six jours (Post 17010076)

I've been lurking. For some reason I have had several months of lucidity during which posting to BF seemed like a complete waste of time. That episode seems to have passed.

Oh, and I went for another bike ride today. I did not land on my head. Weird, eh?