Keeping safe and being seen on the road

[Oldhippy]

I've never given a helmet a thought in honesty.

 

[simongt]

I always think there is one problem with this discussion. The people who have not been injured are still here cycling and the ones who have been injured are no longer on cycle sites discussing what happened to their heads. A visit to a Headway charity would probably give us a very different insight.

As with others, both the GLW and I have been knocked off our bikes destroying our respective bash hats, but we were straight back on our bikes afterwards.
With my last one, I had to wait about two months before the NHS physio gave me the go ahead, such a frustrating time - !

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

As with others, both the GLW and I have been knocked off our bikes destroying our respective bash hats, but we were straight back on our bikes afterwards.
With my last one, I had to wait about two months before the NHS physio gave me the go ahead, such a frustrating time - !

First time I fell off and hurt myself
which was 8 or 9 years ago now
I had to wait a few months to get back on

SWMBO was funny about riding around with my arm in a cast for some reason

did give me time to realise that my helmet - which looked fine - had a large dent in the padding where my head had "gentle knocked" the tarmac!!!!

 

[mjr]

As with others, both the GLW and I have been knocked off our bikes destroying our respective bash hats,

Cycle helmets are designed and tested for falls, not collisions, so it was pretty much a fluke if they helped, but good for you if so.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

As with others, both the GLW and I have been knocked off our bikes destroying our respective bash hats

Shows how flimsy they are

 

[Gillstay]

As with others, both the GLW and I have been knocked off our bikes destroying our respective bash hats, but we were straight back on our bikes afterwards.
With my last one, I had to wait about two months before the NHS physio gave me the go ahead, such a frustrating time - !

Okay, but those who have been really injured and have not got back on their bikes would see things differently. We are discusing this on a cycling forum not a head injury forum where they may well see things differently.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Shows how flimsy they are

Or how they absorb the impact and take the damage thus saving at lest some of the damage from your head
which is more difficult to replace

 

[Profpointy]

I always think there is one problem with this discussion. The people who have not been injured are still here cycling and the ones who have been injured are no longer on cycle sites discussing what happened to their heads. A visit to a Headway charity would probably give us a very different insight.

And yet Headway, however well intentioned, parrot a pack of lies. Ends justify the means I guess

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Or how they absorb the impact and take the damage

Something destroyed did not take the damage. It was massively overwhelmed.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

And yet Headway, however well intentioned, parrot a pack of lies. Ends justify the means I guess

I saw a article that interviews a Head Surgeon who worked with the local A&E

He said he saw a lot of cyclist who had not been wearing a helmet

very very few that HAD been wearing one

only an anecdote - but that was what it said

 

[fossyant]

Not necessarily some of us have been injured broken ribs collar bones but no head injuries however a smashed helmet.
Make of that what you wish.

Is that it, lightweight. I may have damaged a couple of helmets enough to bin (OTB on the MTB and sliding down a stone trail on my noggin, and getting knocked off and again sliding down the road on the 'lid') - gravel rash on the scalp isn't fun. I could do with some better body protection, broken spine, broken ribs, damaged shoulder and broken pelvis and hip socket. Still cycling !

 

[Webbo2]

Is that it, lightweight. I may have damaged a couple of helmets enough to bin (OTB on the MTB and sliding down a stone trail on my noggin, and getting knocked off and again sliding down the road on the 'lid') - gravel rash on the scalp isn't fun. I could do with some better body protection, broken spine, broken ribs, damaged shoulder and broken pelvis and hip socket. Still cycling !

Clearly I haven’t been trying hard enough. I bow to your ability to crash.😎

 

[Alex321]

Something destroyed did not take the damage. It was massively overwhelmed.

Helmets are designed to work the same way "crumple zones" do in cars. They are designed to be single use so far as damage prevention is concerned. If they are destroyed in an accident but your head is undamaged, then they have done exactly what they were designed and intended to do.