Helmet Check
 

The real question is, do you wear your helmet?

Feel free to chime in with a picture of your lid.

I didn't today, I usually do...

Man, I'd kill for a thread that didn't already exist

yes I wear a helmet

9 out of 10 rides my helmet joins me.

Like a guitar riff that hasn't been played? Doesn't exist.

I have a Wife I love and a mortgage....I wear a helmet

I'm wearing a helmet right now.

sounds like two solid reasons to not, just sayin

zing!

How much is your house payment?

I only wear a helmet when I drive my car.

I only wear my seatbelt when I pedal my bike...

I wear my helmet when walking down the stairs and when coming out of the shower, but not when cycling. Risk statistics awareness first!

I wear one. I'm thinking about getting a nerdier one like a Bern so I can put stickers on it.

Insurance would pay the bills if I die but I can't enjoy either if I'm a vegetable

too much....my pension pays it though so I'm not worried just means I have to work if I want any toys

I have two helmets, a road helmet and my BMX helmet.

So you have four helmets?

I have 4 heads, it's a must.

Safety fourth.

when i remember it. which is 9 out of ten or higher

No, cycling is a safe activity and im not a *****.

Always on the track (mandatory) or off road, usually on the road, unless it's a really short trip to do a quick errand or visit someone nearby. The only time I've ever needed it has been when I crashed in races, and several times I got concussions anyway, so if I hadn't been wearing it I'd either be a vegetable or dead, but wearing a helmet when racing is mandatory.

If its 10miles+, yeah, otherwise no. I should though...

Yeah I wear one, but I prefer not to. If I want to be safe then I'll ride safe

Pretty easy to crack a skull and the brain is a pretty important organ, so yeah, I wear one.

I don't wear a helmet, but have thought about getting one. Then I remember I don't ride a bike to where my actions would ever necessitate needing one. Yeah I know, it's the cars out there and their drivers. But I factored them into the equation too. I still don't ride to where I'd need one and if the driver, drunk or sober were to hit me, I doubt the helmet is going to do anything for me anyway ?

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Around here, it seems you are either one or the other and not in between ? That is, in a bike mishap that either nothing happens to you physically beyond road rash and your bike suffering damage or there's an article and obituary written up in the paper/on-line for you ? About a week ago, I saw a fellow with road rash, he fell off his bike on a sidewalk, a mystery crash. I figure he hit a sandy patch as he was trying to turn to fast for it and went down hard ? I guess a helmet protects in those kind of accidents, the self inflicted ones ?

When shaking something down and it's restricted to a driveway test, I don't. All other occasions though, the helmet is on.

I wear one because my girlfriend tells me to

99% of the time - helmet is on.

I go through spurts of stupidity where I don't wear a helmet. But mostly I wear one, so I chose, 'when I remember it'