A simple question: Do you wear a helmet?

[Theseus]

I don't see the box for "Mind your own business!"?

That is the box you don't select.

 

[Dan B]

I voted "very rarely": only when compelled, or sometimes on the way to an event at which it is compelled when I don't have space for it in my panniers

 

[Boris Bajic]

Rarely - as I am from an age when no-one did.

In countless crashes I've yet to bump my head - other than a faceplant when a helmet would have helped little. I still get a mark on my cheek from that one whenever my face tans.

My wife ALWAYS wears a helmet and thinks me mad not to.

The children do what they want.

 

[Norm]

Not a thread for debate of pros and cons.

Another dozen posts deleted.

There's a whole forum for helmet debates, not just the one thread.

 

[cyberknight]

Another dozen posts deleted.

There's a whole forum for helmet debates, not just the one thread.

cheers , i was trying very hard not to get into a debate whilst defending my position, please delete this if you need .

 

[mickle]

Thanks Norm!

 

[John the Monkey]

Mostly, yep. Don't really mind what other folk do, would fight compulsion tooth & nail.

 

[screenman]

All the time. Don't really mind what other folk do, would fight compulsion tooth & nail.

 

[marafi]

All the time. Though properly not when im using the loo though. lool.

 

[Scruffmonster]

Never when I have the choice. Wearing one to teach my 3 year old she needs to keep hers on is a small price to pay. Her head is pretty soft.

Annoys me that I have to defend my choice, despite never advising anyone else to follow suit. (Not in relation to the above paragraph)

 

[ufkacbln]

Never when I have the choice. Wearing one to teach my 3 year old she needs to keep hers on is a small price to pay. Her head is pretty soft.

Annoys me that I have to defend my choice, despite never advising anyone else to follow suit. (Not in relation to the above paragraph)

The softness of children's heads is one of the reasons that RoSPA and the College of Emergency Medicine advocate both cycle helmets and the Thudguard

 

[mickle]

Look at the lovely curve on that poll! I love it when a graph comes together.

 

[4F]

Only when riding on a velodrome. Never the rest of the time

 

[Davidc]

I voted half the time. About right.

If it's cold - all the time.
If it's hot - never (so not at all for the past week)

In between:
- pootling round town - usually
- out leisure riding - sometimes if I remember it
- using the canal - always, as it reduces the effects of bridge impacts!
- out with the OH - always, as it reduces the effects of ear impacts!
- when at an event where the organisers ask for them to be worn - always. (I've chosen to go, so follow the organisers' request.)

If they ever beome compulsory I'll completely stop using one. In the meantime I'm firmly in favour of it staying a personal choice, and of it being my prersonal choice whether to give anyone an earful if they pass an adverse comment about my helmet wearing choice at the time.

 

[alans]

sometimes yes & sometimes no, which in practice equates to most of the time.