Self-righteous helmet naggers are a much more prevalent danger to cyclists than physical injuries. There’s little evidence my helmet would increase my physical safety in case of an accident (there’s as much evidence for the opposite, in fact), but it does protect my social safety. If I suffered an accident, I’d need the support of my friends and family, and they threaten to withhold this if I don’t wear a helmet. So I do. And then I make cartoons complaining about it.
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Uh oh! Watch out for the Naggertarian Safetyarchy.
I wear helmet because I drive fast on bicycle. I guess if you drive normally you have much less need for a helmet but I would still wear it. It’s a kind of life insurance. Generally I have noticed that the skull is more fragile than the pavement. I got some valuable stuff up there.
I think the regular helmet is too sporty looking. Google “design bicycle helmet” for cool helmets…
Bicycle helmets are _not_ designed to work at speeds above about 30 kph.
I wear it so friends and relatives (and total strangers) don’t give me shit. It makes me safer from them.
Interesting… The only two people that I know that have gotten into bicycle accidents would both be dead had they not worn helmets. My sister’s helmet cracked completely in half. Without a helmet, that would be her head. And my brother in law was mountain biking, fell, and hit his head on a rock. Thank goodness for the helmet.
I’m not saying we should have mandatory laws for bike helmets. I just don’t think it’s the smartest thing to go without one.
@Derek – Wikipedia’s got your number.
My friend had a similar experience. But maybe it could equally be claimed that the accidents wouldn’t even happen had they not worn their helmets at all. So… to fix your statistics, maybe you should consider the number of your friends that DIDN’T have an accident because they didn’t wear their helmets 🙂
I got into uh acident coupleple tims abd i fine now nope never wore uh helmut. Just abut everywon could use a crack er two on the heade in life blee bloo bloo blee bloo
Cracked in half is not absorbing much energy. Brittle is not good!
Amusing. Thanks for presenting one of those “for every solutions, comes new problems” cases.
(snort chuckle) you said helmut….
Helmets aren’t designed to absorb energy; they’re designed to disperse it without imparting it to the skull. A helmet that breaks upon impact is far better than a skull that does so.
When I was teaching my son to ride his bike, he lost control and went over the handlebars and headfirst into the curb. If he hadn’t been wearing a helmet he definitely would have sustained more than a bruised ego.
This helmet war thing reminds me of Bob Dylan’s lyrics (Black Cross):
Then they hung Hezekiah high as a pigeon.
White folks around there said, “Well… he had it comin’
‘Cause the son-of-a-bitch never had no religion!”
I think pretty much the same would happen if I got run over by a car while wearing no helmet: “Well… he had it comin’, ’cause the son-of-a-bitch wasn’t wearing no helment!”
The hell do you live? Must be somewhere people mainly ride their bikes for exercise instead of necessity. Helmets? I thought you only put those on autistic kids so they didn’t hurt themselves when they threw a tantrum.