Always were a helmet - ALWAYS!

[Tedroy]

Here's me last Sunday...without the helmet I would be either dead or a vegetable right now...as it is I'm smiling and enjoying the day! Wear a helmet. It looks like I need a Fullface!
(Dino Brown...photo)

[stinkyrider]

There are still a few posts in this thread that Pete didn't thank.

[Pain Freak]

I've personally seen 3 different peoples lifes saved because they were wearing helmets. I gots to go with Mechman and CalEpic here. Shouldn't be a mandatory thing. But in the same regard I have no problem yelling to people who are not wearing helmets "Thanks for the future donations"! Most give a puzzled look but a few have smiled and nodded and one guy just told me I was number 1.

[L8 APEKS]

Originally Posted by Mudd

Fixed it for you.

You're just jealous because she's more of a man than Bushwhacker.

Honestly though, I don't know what scares me more...Bush's single digit IQ, or Hilary's testosterone.

Originally Posted by dirtmistress

There is NO place more dangerous than your local beach bike path! NO PLACE!! I would rather ride the 405 at 3 a.m. than my local bike path with no helmet! Brainless kids making u-turns. Elderly folks on beach cruisers making u-turns. Roller bladers kicking up their legs and waving their arms like a windmill and mindless walkers 5 across.
Wanna know about head injuries? Google Saul Raisin.

WOW...looked him up on Wiki. What a trooper...back on the bike after all that! Amazing!

[OMR]

I grew up riding bikes without a helmet... you know, the wind in the hair thing....I fought against using them for a very long time. I thought that it was my head and I could do what I wanted with it. About 20 years ago, my wife finally convinced me to start riding with a helmet. It wasn't until I took that 70 foot dive off of Strawberry Peak that really convinced me that helmets really work. I had a rock embeded 1 inch into the top of the helmet. I'd been dead without one... so much for the wind in the hair stuff...

To each his own, but I prefer to be around to celebrate my 66th birthday this month...

[TrailJesus]

Originally Posted by PacMan

My family dentist growing up was a roadie. He did a few repairs to his bike one day and decided to spin it around the block to test out his repairs without a helmet. The repairs were fine, but the neighbor's sprinkler was leaking onto the sidewalk. He rode through the water, lost control and cracked his head on the edge of the curb. His wife came outside to tell him dinner was ready and he was dead in the street.

[SIZE=5]WEAR YOUR FRIGGIN' HELMET!!!!![/SIZE]

Dude the mental image I get of this guy hitting the pavement and cracking his head is gross (and I'm eating cambells chicken noodle soup). I guess I'll just have to wear a helmet or learn to land like a ninja

[PacMan]

Originally Posted by integradriv3r

Dude the mental image I get of this guy hitting the pavement and cracking his head is gross (and I'm eating cambells chicken noodle soup). I guess I'll just have to wear a helmet or learn to land like a ninja

Ya. He was our family dentist for 12 years. Nice guy too. I hate to even picture it myself.

[Hoosierdaddy]

So that's why your hair is so nice.

[ezzyride]

Helmets are uncool! Nathalie you are right who cares what one looks like with it. I have two girls depending on me so... I can't take any chances. I wear the stupid thing. If I'd not been wearing mine first time in Whiting - I'd have even more serious brain issues.

I don't let people on my bike rides if they are not wearing one.

[Schecky]

Originally Posted by Mudd

Fixed it for you.

Originally Posted by L8 APEKS

You're just jealous because she's more of a man than Bushwhacker.

Honestly though, I don't know what scares me more...Bush's single digit IQ, or Hilary's testosterone.

See how the Bush group is. The truth can't be handled, so they alter it to suit their own purposes.
I think Bush didn't wear a helmet early in his riding career, which could explain a lot. He probably should use a helmet for pretzel eating, let alone biking.

My brother and his bud have fought the helmet for a while. I have told them that its my selfishness that makes me get on them about it. I want the trails to remain open.
When there is an article about a MTB crash in the paper, it doesn't say 'some Fred who wasn't wearing a helmet donated himself to Mother Nature today', they say 'Mountain Biker found dead in ACME wilderness park'.
I tried to get my brother to buy a helmet on Saturday. If he had, I would have brought him to Whiting on Sunday - his loss.

I tend to agree with CalEpic that the laws are ridiculous, but I don't think that the main reason is to save cash - more likely to save the emergency folks from having to clean up someone else's brain goo.

[mntbiker12]

Thanks for that post. Raisin's story is quite inspiring. He had a devastating crash in April 2006 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, and ended having part of his brain removed!! After serious rehab, he's not only doing fine, he's back on the bike!!

Full story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Raisin

Here he is racing again in the US TT Championships:

Originally Posted by dirtmistress

Wanna know about head injuries? Google Saul Raisin.

[ShugaMama]

If you are willing to accept the consequences it is up to you, but in my line of work, I have seen the devastation that results from this. Just be careful, folks.

[jcampbell]

I hate riding with people that take their helmet off while climbing... In fact I a usually the first one to say something and be a complete bitch to have them put it back on. I have seen people pass out or break a chain and go straight over the bars so quickly and smack their head. Or usually when climbing, its inevitable that there are some downhills involved before you get to the top. Its the small stuff like this that usually hurts people and gives neck and head injuries. One would rather be hauling ass and skip then have your whole body weight come down on your head and neck. A helmet is designed to lessen the impact of a slow speed falls as well as high speed impacts.

[LBmtb]

I bet Pete always wears his helmet!

[sladnas]

Let it be said, partially by my avatar, that simply wearing a helmet is not enough. You need to wear the thing correctly. That means straps properly tightened, with the adjustable slides just under the ear. The helmet should fit "flat" on your head, not pitch up or down, and certainly not move around if you wiggle your head back and forth/side to side.

This has been a public service announcement.

[Fired Yo Momma]

Originally Posted by OMR

I grew up riding bikes without a helmet... you know, the wind in the hair thing....I fought against using them for a very long time. I thought that it was my head and I could do what I wanted with it. About 20 years ago, my wife finally convinced me to start riding with a helmet. It wasn't until I took that 70 foot dive off of Strawberry Peak that really convinced me that helmets really work. I had a rock embeded 1 inch into the top of the helmet. I'd been dead without one... so much for the wind in the hair stuff...

To each his own, but I prefer to be around to celebrate my 66th birthday this month...

I thought you were 45? I doin't know why you would not want to wear a helmet with your hair? Your hair is perfect. I think it would be impossible to mess your hair up

[allison]

Originally Posted by Hoosierdaddy

You cruise the beach too? We should go for a ride down there some time! I heard they have bars down there! That'd be me on the right!

Sorry for the OT, but dude, Jeff, you've been working this on MULTIPLE threads!!

[allison]

While we were riding Bunker Creek there is a fire road climb out after the fun descent... it was *really* warm so a few of us took our helmets off to cool off a bit on the climb. We started heading a bit down hill. I rode for mebbe 1/4 mile at the most before pulling over to put the helmet back on. Just felt really weird without it.

However, I did ride at the beach a few weeks ago (going extremely slow) without a helmet, and I mess around the neighborhood without one also.

We didn't have to wear helmets as kids until I was around 12. Stopped riding a bike again until Justin and I rented mountain bikes when I was probably 22. Didn't have issues wearing the helmet then.

I always wear one offroad (even climbing), and always when commuting on my road bike.