A simple question: Do you wear a helmet?

[martint235]

Mountain biking or track cycling. I keep telling myself I'll wear one if it's icy but my route to work doesn't really suffer from ice.

 

[Svendo]

It's a bit like a car seat belt, it feels like I'm almost naked when I notice I've not got it.
The straps also hold my earphones in nicely, to mix notorious debates!

 

[martint235]

It's a bit like a car seat belt, it feels like I'm almost naked when I notice I've not got it.
The straps also hold my earphones in nicely, to mix notorious debates!

Now you've gone and done it.

 

[ColinJ]

Do you not take it off when you get home?

Er, yes, but I did forget to take it off on a cafe stop once and I didn't realise until I got up to leave. The funny thing was - none of my companions thought to mention it!

 

[Panter]

MTB - always

Road - always used to but after reading up on here decided not to anymore. Then, had a crash and fell off. I was doing around 12mph and hit my head quite hard on the road, and it hurt.
Felt really silly as that's the sort of accident helmets are supposed to protect against and so I now wear one on the road.
I know that it's controversial, and that if I had been wearing one at the time then maybe I could've suffered a rotational injury but I suspect that I'd have been OK but without a headache, bruising and abrasions on my head.

Each to their own though

 

[Gary E]

It's a bit like a car seat belt, it feels like I'm almost naked when I notice I've not got it.
The straps also hold my earphones in nicely, to mix notorious debates!

Now there's a man who likes to live dangerously

 

[Norm]

Do you not take it off when you get home?

Nope, because wearing one when cycling and not when walking would make them... oh, wait, this isn't a debating thread.

Which, in case it wasn't obvious, was a hint back to the OP's request...

Not a thread for debate of pros and cons.

 

[Red Light]

No, not road biking nor mountain biking these days.

 

[screenman]

Always.

 

[srw]

Usually on the local roads; going to the office I don't, as I've decided to turn myself into a person on a Brompton rather than a cyclist - I now commute in a suit rather than lycra.

 

[Cush]

Did always wear one, point was proven when I fell off on the quay at Bristol, helmet saved a trip to A&E

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I always wear one when mountain biking, and nearly always when commuting or on leisure/pleasure rides with other people whose riding skills are an unknown quantity. Solo on-road fun rides, I prefer a flat cap.

and I own two, with a third about to be purchased.

 

[Baggy]

I hardly ever wear one these days, but if it's icy, if I'm in a group with people whose riding skills I'm unfamiliar with or if I have to (sportives etc), the lid goes on.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Always.

+1 Always have since returning to cycling as an adult and always will

 

[PpPete]

I hardly ever wear one these days, but if it's icy, if I'm in a group with people whose riding skills I'm unfamiliar with or if I have to (sportives etc), the lid goes on.

Ditto.
Had to wear one in US... not compulsory by law, but club rides insist on it.