The Helmet Debate

[classic33]

Only when at the crease or wicket keeping, the out fielders don't bother. Perhaps we should start a campaign to make ALL cricketers wear helmets - AND golfers too! I wonder how many people are killed on golf courses every year?

Rugby players should wear helmets, because they have 22 other (muscular) blokes trying to do them irreversible harm, so it would be crazy not to.

And the mainstream media, (and people with no sense) still expect me to wear a sweaty polystyrene helmet whilst I potter about at 10-15 mph on quiet back roads?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006051411150
by Spud
Fewer than are wiped out by those orb things employed in rythmic gymnastics..golf: maybe 16 a week Scotland 11 of which occur in Glasgow, maybe a ball maybe a club who knows, noones talking..

You could be onto something there!

 

[TheDoctor]

Since the most likely thing to cause me injury on a bike is some dickhead driving into my ar$e at 70 mph, I fail to see how a helmet would help me.
Banning seatbelts and airbags would make me feel safer...

 

[rowan 46]

this is my helmet not so much designed for safety as revenge.
The idea being after the driver has knocked me down I sail through the windscreen and pierce them them through the chest.

 

[ianrauk]

this is my helmet not so much designed for safety as revenge.
The idea being after the driver has knocked me down I sail through the windscreen and pierce them them through the chest. View attachment 5526

Rowan, top top idea....I like it...

 

[Dan_h]

No. This is a Helmet Thread.
Spirit and Decency have nothing to do with it.

Christmas, Schmishmas!

This is the thread where whoever is typing at any given moment is right and everyone else in the world is wrong.

It can be no other way. I have a friend who knows a bloke who wrote a paper on traffic collisions. It was 16% less accurate than other papers may or may not have been.

That's a fact.

Good, I like facts, and that is a fact!

 

[Red Light]

AND golfers too! I wonder how many people are killed on golf courses every year?

http://emj.bmj.com/content/19/6/576.full

 

[Bicycle]

this is my helmet not so much designed for safety as revenge.
The idea being after the driver has knocked me down I sail through the windscreen and pierce them them through the chest. View attachment 5526

When I was a motorcycle courier one of my colleagues went to court on a matter of what I believe was criminal damage. There may have been other charges.

He'd been cut up by a car on diplo plates and the driver had given him the bird. Wearing his leathers and helmet, he took a flying headbutt at the rear window of the car and cracked it, although he failed to gain entry (which had been his intention).

He was a hero to many of us for some months after that. i do not know the outcome of the case.

Not quite the scenario you describe, but not too far off.

 

[ufkacbln]

Oh lordy.

Religion being brought into it again!!

I'm afraid you are mistaken, this the inaugural appearance of the Eurovision song contest in a helmet thread!

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Its a debate why should i mind?

Debates do not consist of instructions! "So wear a helmet." is an instruction.

 

[ufkacbln]

.... or a question:

"So, wear a helmet?"

 

[ufkacbln]

I must admit that I have had a couple of close escapes in the recent weather where the back wheel has slipped.

But being on a recumbent trike it is not a problem.

Which brings us to the Elf and Safety principles for using PPE

As engineering controls to improve safety should be considered and implemented before considering PPE all you two wheeled upwrong riders should be compulsorily made to ride recumbent trikes!

 

[Bicycle]

Debates do not consist of instructions! "So wear a helmet." is an instruction.

It might not be an instruction; it might be in 'Friendslish', spoken by New York loft dwellers stuck in the last decade.

As in: "You should so wear a helmet".

Just a thought.

 

[Bicycle]

... all you two wheeled upwrong riders should be compulsorily made to ride recumbent trikes![/quote]

I hate to admit how alluring I find that idea but I do, particularly after a crappy, slidey, nervous MTB ride to collect a child from an evening thing last night. (He loved riding with no grip - it's an age thing).

Many years ago I borrowed a friend's recumbant 2-wheeler (not the same but close) and was amazed. It was built along a section of alloy boom from a racing yacht (I was told), so all the components could slide and then be clamped in the correct position. I preferred my bicycle for a ride, but whipping the recumbant repeadedly round a roundabout flat-out was intoxicating.

On a recumbant trike, is there somewhere to store the helmet I'd obviously be wearing?

I mean... it would be suicide not to. :troll:

 

[marafi]

Debates do not consist of instructions! "So wear a helmet." is an instruction.

.... or a question:

"So, wear a helmet?"

Or your own opinion. It is like trying to make you reliaze your own safety while on the bike.

 

[marafi]

It might not be an instruction; it might be in 'Friendslish', spoken by New York loft dwellers stuck in the last decade.

As in: "You should so wear a helmet".

Just a thought.

Very well good thought.