OK, Maybe I'll buy a bicycle hemet now.

[bjoehandley]

Check out this post in an RC forum I go on, this boy got damn lucky:shocked:
ouch (http://www.ultimaterc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64772&page=1&pp=11)

I'm starting to think getting some head protection may be a good idea now............................................... .........................................

[MyJeepXJ]

Yeah, there not much as helmets go.. but a damn sight better than nothing.

[8Mud]

I look at the traditional bike helmets and think faggot. If they managed to make one that was functional and didn't look like something ET would show up in, I'd be a lot more liable to wear one. Though I imagine things have changed some since I was young.
I bet if they designed a bike helmet that looked like a batters helmet and had team logos on it, they could get a lot more kids to wear one.
I think this is one time, function over from, it costing a lot more injury than necessary. If they could design one that looked good and did the job reasonably well, it would be better than one that was optimal and nobody wore.
Maybe something near a lightwieght motorcycle helmet or even a Polo helmet would be acceptable.

[Matthew Currie]

I look at the traditional bike helmets and think faggot. If they managed to make one that was functional and didn't look like something ET would show up in, I'd be a lot more liable to wear one. Though I imagine things have changed some since I was young.
I bet if they designed a bike helmet that looked like a batters helmet and had team logos on it, they could get a lot more kids to wear one.
I think this is one time, function over from, it costing a lot more injury than necessary. If they could design one that looked good and did the job reasonably well, it would be better than one that was optimal and nobody wore.
Maybe something near a lightwieght motorcycle helmet or even a Polo helmet would be acceptable.

The thing is that bike helmets used to look like that, and have evolved to that streamlined look. Check out a 20 or so year old Bell Shell or V1 Pro. The V1 Pro looks about like a batter's helmet. Nothing at all wrong with the design except that they're a bit heavy, but now they're as out of style as bell bottoms. I still wear one for roller blading, an activity in which I have negative style already. Besides, things that look like batter's helmets and mini-motorcycle helmets are probably too close to what junior's little brother with down's syndrome has to wear in the playground. I think kids are probably a part of the reason we old farts have to wear things that look like something a radioactive superhero (or perhaps a supervillain) would show up in.

I think the best way to get kids wearing helmets is for the adults to do so too. I often see adult cyclists riding with their kids. The kids are wearing cute kid-styled helmets, and the adults none at all. And you just know that soon enough they'll be thinking "helmets are for kids," or "helmets are the crap grownups make us put on" like mittens and galoshes, and will soon join the ranks of kids you see all the time on the streets, with helmets hung on the back of their bikes as soon as they're out of sight of home.

As far as getting kids to wear one, my kids were smart enough to do it anyway, but there just was never a question. Like seat belts. You get in my car you put on a belt. If not we don't go. You ride with me you put on a helmet. If not we don't go. Very easy, really.

A friend of mine went mountain biking a few years ago alone, deep in the woods. Just noodling around on a logging road, no big speed or technical stuff. He took a fall and his head hit a rock. Both his helmet and glasses broke. He rode home. He said he supposed if he hadn't had on a helmet they'd have found him eventually by the smell.

[bjoehandley]

I've yet to buy a helmet and when I was in younger I had several wild wipeouts with out and managed not smack my head, messed up both wrists a little and one of my knee's as well as the associated road rash (no broken bones and only one trip to the ER!), but with drivers like that and worse around here, I'm a little concerned.........

[DDCxj]

I've had 4 concussions. I'm at the point that I wear a helmet to go for a walk.

Seriously though, helmets are good and definetely aren't as dorky as they used to be. I'd probably be dead by now if I didn't wear one while snowboarding and biking.

[SCW]

Besides, things that look like batter's helmets and mini-motorcycle helmets are probably too close to what junior's little brother with down's syndrome has to wear in the playground.


LOL, hahahaha, rofl.

[XJ Jeepin Girl]

Bike helmets have saved my life (and my dad's) many a time. I'd never ride the stuff I do without one. It just sucks to go through a lot of helmets that aren't cheap, though. Because they say after one hard impact, you really should get a new one since all the styrophome is packed together afterward. I think I've been through 3 now.

[Menzenski]

I'm never going to ride helmetless again, after once waking up on the ground, several feet from my bike, with holes punched in my helmet by the rocks I landed on. And that happened on a level, gravel towpath.

[bjoehandley]

I'm never going to ride helmetless again, after once waking up on the ground, several feet from my bike, with holes punched in my helmet by the rocks I landed on. And that happened on a level, gravel towpath.

Good point, if I can get myself into good enough shape (other than round:) ) and bike to work there is a bike/prairie path and sidewalks near one of the stores I work at.

[jml1911a1]

I wouldn't enjoy biking if I had to wear a turtle on my head. Seriously--I do realize the risks, but I don't like strapping stuff to my noggin, and choking myself with a nylon strap.

Unleash the "enjoy your electric wheelchair after you're paralyzed" comments...

[Matthew Currie]

I wouldn't enjoy biking if I had to wear a turtle on my head. Seriously--I do realize the risks, but I don't like strapping stuff to my noggin, and choking myself with a nylon strap.

Unleash the "enjoy your electric wheelchair after you're paralyzed" comments...

I'm reminded of what a doctor told a friend of mine who suffered from dangerously high blood pressure. The friend said something to the effect that he wasn't afraid of dying, so why take the pills. The doctor said "you may not die, but someone else will be wiping your a$$."

[Fergie]

Fractured clavicle and concussions have taught me that helmets are cool.

[Roxtar]

Fractured clavicle and concussions have taught me that helmets are cool.2X
I've broken two helmets and shattered a clavicle after augering in on my head.
Any one of these three crashes would've caused serious damage.
Because of my helmet I've had no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects, no ill effects...:wow:

[bjoehandley]

Well I got a Bell Fusion Sport Triton on Friday, just haven't had a chance to ride since then. I've been trying to shake a cold for almost a week now and I think it's almost beat!

After reading the thread I posted a link to and seeing one on bicycling.com where somebody ended up in the hospital because of somebody's cat running infront of his front wheel, hitting it and wrecking because of it, I'm going to keep it!

[BOB]

I was the daredevil type growing up.
I busted myself up so much,
my parents used to alternate hospitals
so Family Services wouldn't think they were beating me.
(true story)
...BOB

[cracker]

How about the old Skid Lids? :D