Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
I think the helmet detractors are in denial. When you are dead or brain damaged and your family is grieving or reflecting on your vegatative state they will be saying....... if only he/she had been wearing a helmet. Whether they are BS or Tuv approved or have a CE mark I don't care ffs. If you don't wear one fine but don't start trying to justify why you don't to those who do. Justify why you don't wear one to your partners and families. Those who wear one do so because whatever protection they do offer has got to be a whole lot better than the protection offered by not wearing one. Wearing one might just save my life or reduce the likelihood of brain injury. If you don't wear a helmet great but you've got no right telling those who chose to they shouldn't or they are misguided. The first thing you will be asked if you're knocked down and you’re still conscious and hopefully you will be is "Have you hit your head?" The emergency services ask this as the brain is the most important muscle in your body and any impact to it can be potentially serious. That's what they asked me when I was knocked downin 1999. Fortunately I was wearing a helmet. They still did checks on my head to see if I was concussed having hit the road. Once satisfied I was not they attended to my other injuries. I was wearing a helmet. I have had 4 helmets since then and each being slightly better than the previous one. I would not cycle without a helmet. Unfortunately those cyclists who are in collisions with vehicles where wearing a helmet may have prevented their death can never enter the helmet debate as they are dead .