beatlejuice
Gently does it...
- Location
- Mid Hampshire
I am not a great fan on cycle helmets. Typically if I am doing my day to day cycling just has commuting, shopping etc I do without a helmet. Sometime when it dark I will wear one so I can mount a light on it. Also if I am riding with others I will wear one.
However as my lorry was being unloaded on a building site about a month ago I large heavy timber frame structure landed on my head. i was wearing the correct PPE, high impact boots, gloves, hi viz, and a helmet. Thanks to the later taking a lot of the impact my skull was saved, however one of neck vertebra was fractured, plus my upper left arm. I have been incredibly lucky and should much pretty much a full recovery.
So when I am allowed to cycle again, I am going to wear a helmet all the time. My skull took quite a knock and I don’t know if been weakened. However the nature of the risk of town cycling and being on a building site are quite different.
So I ask those of you who not normally wear one your opinion on my choice. Namely if you had looked death in a face and gotten away with it would still not put one on when you pop into town etc?
However as my lorry was being unloaded on a building site about a month ago I large heavy timber frame structure landed on my head. i was wearing the correct PPE, high impact boots, gloves, hi viz, and a helmet. Thanks to the later taking a lot of the impact my skull was saved, however one of neck vertebra was fractured, plus my upper left arm. I have been incredibly lucky and should much pretty much a full recovery.
So when I am allowed to cycle again, I am going to wear a helmet all the time. My skull took quite a knock and I don’t know if been weakened. However the nature of the risk of town cycling and being on a building site are quite different.
So I ask those of you who not normally wear one your opinion on my choice. Namely if you had looked death in a face and gotten away with it would still not put one on when you pop into town etc?