Should I wear a helmet?

"Mike Krueger" wrote in message
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Greg P. wrote:
When I'm on the road commuting, I don't wear it. It looks way too
dorky (I
don't give a damn if it's safer, I just won't wear it). Plus if a car
ends
up slamming me, I doubt that a protected head will save you from a rib
cage
break that snaps it into your lungs so you're coughing up blood and
dying on
the spot...with a nice shiny helmet on your head.

My best friend was hit by a car last week. He was wearing a helmet and
is OK.
The driver told the cops that he ran the stop sign because he was late
for
work.
Congratulations-you get today's RBT Darwin Award. When we scrape you
off the
road, at least your crushed skull won't look dorky.

O.K., on my news reader, this was the fifth post. That may be a record
as for the fastest invocation of Darwin in a helmet thread. It usually
takes about seven posts. Whatever happended to the good old days when
people cited the pro-helmet Rivara studies and the anti-helmet reports
of Australians refusing to ride their bikes? Get the protocal right:
you have to at least make the argument that helmets make a difference
before you call someone an idiot for not wearing one. I believe that a
helmet will prevent certain injuries, so I wear one; however, I still
miss the real counter-arguments. "Helmets look dorky" just doesn't have
much pursuasive force. Tom K., J Poulos . . . where are you? -- Jay
Beattie.

"blue girl with white hair and red eyes"
wrote in message om...
I enjoy biking and Im going on the trinity river trail in Fort Worth

snip..

How many other people ride without a helmet...and how many people who
do wear helmets find that its been a lifesaver? Also, have you worn,
been in a fall and still got hurt where it didnt provide any help?

any input would be appreciated.

I would challenge you to use what the helmet is designed to protect and make
up your own mind about whether to wear one. Don't be a lemming. Are you
going to entrust your health to a bunch of people you don't know on the
internet?!?! I assume you're over 18 and if so, you're just as qualified as
anyone here to make a decision. Life's dangerous..deal with it in whatever
way YOU feel is appropriate.

Cheers,

Scott..

"blue girl with white hair and red eyes"
wrote in message om...
I enjoy biking and Im going on the trinity river trail in Fort Worth

snip..

How many other people ride without a helmet...and how many people who
do wear helmets find that its been a lifesaver? Also, have you worn,
been in a fall and still got hurt where it didnt provide any help?

any input would be appreciated.

I would challenge you to use what the helmet is designed to protect and make
up your own mind about whether to wear one. Don't be a lemming. Are you
going to entrust your health to a bunch of people you don't know on the
internet?!?! I assume you're over 18 and if so, you're just as qualified as
anyone here to make a decision. Life's dangerous..deal with it in whatever
way YOU feel is appropriate.

Cheers,

Scott..

On 18 Sep 2003 13:10:56 -0700, (blue girl
with white hair and red eyes) wrote:

[..]

How many other people ride without a helmet...and how many people who
do wear helmets find that its been a lifesaver? Also, have you worn,
been in a fall and still got hurt where it didnt provide any help?

any input would be appreciated.

Probably a troll but I'll play along.

Wear one or don't, it's a decision you'll have to make for yourself.
I used to wear one religiously, now I don't. I encourage you to read
up on both sides of the subject so that you are at least not making
the decision in ignorance.

I would however, caution you from believing that it will offer any
significant protection, otherwise you will be as big a fool as the
ignorant, self righteous simpletons that have already been heard from.

--
Chris Bird

On 18 Sep 2003 13:10:56 -0700, (blue girl
with white hair and red eyes) wrote:

[..]

How many other people ride without a helmet...and how many people who
do wear helmets find that its been a lifesaver? Also, have you worn,
been in a fall and still got hurt where it didnt provide any help?

any input would be appreciated.

Probably a troll but I'll play along.

Wear one or don't, it's a decision you'll have to make for yourself.
I used to wear one religiously, now I don't. I encourage you to read
up on both sides of the subject so that you are at least not making
the decision in ignorance.

I would however, caution you from believing that it will offer any
significant protection, otherwise you will be as big a fool as the
ignorant, self righteous simpletons that have already been heard from.

--
Chris Bird

I have now read three reports of helmets "splitting". No mention of
"crushing".

It would be funny if so many of these people didn't actively or
passively promote the notion that a helmet a substitute for teaching
people how to ride with minimum risk in the first place.

--
Chris Bird

I have now read three reports of helmets "splitting". No mention of
"crushing".

It would be funny if so many of these people didn't actively or
passively promote the notion that a helmet a substitute for teaching
people how to ride with minimum risk in the first place.

--
Chris Bird

Do you have health insurance?

Do you have car insurance?

Do you have house insurance?

Insurance is to protect you from losses you can't afford pay.

A helmet is 'insurance' that could save your life. It did my wife, twice.

Tom




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Do you have health insurance?

Do you have car insurance?

Do you have house insurance?

Insurance is to protect you from losses you can't afford pay.

A helmet is 'insurance' that could save your life. It did my wife, twice.

Tom




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"Chris B." wrote in message
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I have now read three reports of helmets "splitting". No mention of
"crushing".

It would be funny if so many of these people didn't actively or
passively promote the notion that a helmet a substitute for teaching
people how to ride with minimum risk in the first place.


Riding with the minimum of risk is fine - 10mph, ride only on bike tracks,
walk the bike when not on a track.

This will minimise risk, and make me much safer than I am wearing a helmet
the way I currently ride. I prefer not to ride like that though.

The way I enjoy riding, I am always pushing myself, I am always racing
myself. I follow road rules and am aware of other users of trails and roads.

Now please tell me, am I safer, equivalent or less safe wearing a helmet
with the way that I ride?

Tim