Always a helmet. One bad fall for whatever reason and you're gone without one

>>2860627
Never worn a helmet never been in a situation where I felt it was necessary.
Got a scar from ring bite, would a helmet have helped me with that?

I never use to wear a helmet, but then I got into a serious motorbike accident (going 40kmph/25mph) and was in ICU for like 3 weeks, and hospital for 2 months. I now wear a helmet no matter what I ride seeing the damage I got. Luckily I didn't get any head damage

>>2860656
>Luckily I didn't get any head damage
So a helmet wouldn't have helped?

sometimes I do, sometimes I don't

Only german tourists and faggot race cyclists wear helmets here.
But we have the best cycling infrastructure in the world.

I guess it depends onw here you live.

>>2860627
yeah go ahead and wear it, maybe even put a little rearview mirror on your handlebar you dork

>>2860658
people like you deserve the brain damage you get.

>>2860658
I had a motorbike helmet on when I had the accident, if I didn't have the helmet on I most likely would have died. I rephrase, I didn't get any head damage because I had a helmet on (the helmet had grazes) my body took all the heat

>>2860627
i didn't, then I took flight after slamming in to a car, then I wore a helmet until my first winter trip, where I couldn't wear one because it didn't fit over my hat. and now I haven't used one in years

I was knocked off my bike by a car that struck my back tire. Since then (30-odd years ago), I have had a pain in my neck.
PS I wore full cover on a motorcycle in 1997 -- helmet, leather jacket, glices, boots -- and skidded then fell off my M/C. That earned me a subdural hematoma. Could have killed me.

when I learned biking at 5 years old, I went up a steep hill next to the house and rolled down over and over.
my mom came oy and told me to wear my helmet. the very next go, I caught my front wheel on the sidewalk and face planted on the asphalt. broke a big chunk of the front of my helmet. would have probably cracked my skull without it.
haven't worn a helmet since around 12 years old.
>>2860670
hi dutchbro

Wearing a helmet can save your life so I always do unless I’m going down the street on some quiet level neighborhood street or a pedestrian bikes only path for a short distance.

>>2860627
My cousin died because a car hit him on his bike. He was wearing a helmet, but retardedly oversized american trucks will still break your bones and rupture your internal organs.

I'd dishonor his memory if I didnt take biking seriously and at least wear my helmet ffs.

>>2860627
Always wear a helmet.
You seen how fast guys ion e-bikes and scooters are going now? There’s even a guy here with some crazy performance 1-wheel on the paths and he’s passing cars on the adjacent road.
Plus there’s just getting to the trail. I’ll take it off for a long climb on a 1-way trail but that’s all.
Anyway my bike got stolen on Sunday so won’t be riding for a while anyway.

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>>2860823
This is in somebody else’s garage now :..(

>>2860824
i would also have stolen that tbhfam

Been driving from France to the Schwarzwalds in Germany on an e-bike without a helmet. I’m already retarded by not wearing one, I’m not losing much if I wear it or not. HOWEVER please do wear one since shit can happen, especially when complete bafoons like me are zooming through the small bike roads.
Don’t wear it because you may fall, wear it because I might slam into you.

>>2860912
based bikecuck obliterator

>>2860823
I fucking hate those assholes

>>2860713
what is up, broeder?

>>2860946
i wouldn't actually have stolen it, just thought it was a nice bike

>>2860824
how did you get it stolen

>>2860627
I recently got into an accident on a bike trail where I underestimated the slope and fell on the back of my head, if it wasn't for the helmet at worst I could have become quadriplegic, thanks to the helmet though I only came out with a neck muscle strain
So wear a helmet if you intend to go over 10mph

>>2860627
I think helmets are completely unnecessary unless you're doing off-road stuff, racing, or you commute in traffic on a bike. If you're just recreationally riding on paved surfaces or even hard dirt paths, there's just no realistic scenario in which a helmet is going to do anything. Who even falls off a bike after the age of 5? I rode a bike from Denver to New York City back in 2018 and there was never a time along that entire 2,000 miles a helmet would have prevented some kind of injury. Maybe if you're an old fart with no strength left I can see it. But you can just stop your fall in any likely accident scenario, which 99% of the time will be you falling to the side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m-c4GixUpg

>>2861173
the only falls I've had off a bike since i was a kid have been going ass first over the handlebars

I don't but I only ride for exercise/leisure around my suburban neighborhood or on some local paved or gravel bike paths.
Last week I actually fell for the first time in years though, wheels slid out while I was turning and I jumped off the bike and landed on my feet. Has made me a bit more hesitant my last few rides but I'm still not wearing a helmet.

>>2861181
Well that's because you're a retard who doesn't know how to brake. Remember anon, it's either both brakes at the same time, or rear brake followed by front brake. Lean your ass backwards off the seat to counteract your momentum.

>>2861227
no, it's because I'm a retard who's crashed in to things because I wasn't paying attention

You're better off dying than being a cripple. There's a reason insurance companies lobbied against helmets being a requirement for motorcycles and bikes.

>>2861259
This is verbatim what I told the doctors in the ER after my motorcycle crash

>>2861262
absolutely, if the crash is bad enough to need a helmet it's far better you just die.

>>2861173
I will tell you of a video I saw years ago on /n/. I can't post it because I didn't save it at the time, but the gist of it was, a guy on a bike was t-boned by a dump truck. It was going slow, it didn't run over him, just the immense momentum made him go from vertical to horizontal almost instantly. His head hit the pavement and he didn't get up after that. The remaining 20 minutes of the video was just a dark stain growing around his head and an ambulance arriving to pick him up (it was cctv footage).
So just because you lack the imagination to picture something happening doesn't mean it will never happen. Accidents in general are things you don't expect or see coming.

>>2861259
>>2861262
This is retarted, I have had a friend die because he took a joyride on a motorbike and came off. He would have lived with a helmet on with minor injuries.

My personal accident and I also would have died. I sustained serious body injuries but in no means was I a vegetable. After a year I recovered to 100%. Helmets are so critical it is not even funny. The head is fragile.

what is it about americans and their borderline religious opposition to safety gears? i remember them being like this with car seatbelts too

Nope. It's one of the reasons that I decided not to get a motorcycle. Just wanna ride around and feel the wind in my hair. Helmets and pads are uncomfortable/sweaty and shit gets hot here

I wear a helmet 75% of the time, but it sucks there are so many dorks in the biking community.

I remember a couple years ago I was just cruising an easy MTB trail at a slow pace stoned without a helmet and some fags made shitty comments and put me down while passing me

>>2861639
>>2861639
>while passing you

Don't worry about what cowards too scared to actually confront you give a shit about. The equivalent to yelling 'get a job' at a homeless person while you're driving past them on your way to your wage slave job.

>>2860627
I haven't hit my head yet :^)

>>2860658
you are so retarded, you should wear a helmet 24/7

>>2860824
Thats why I am hiding a tracking device on my bike

>>2861936
I hide them in my ass, just in case

>>2862427
your bikes??

>>2860627
I use to never wear one because it was uncomfortable and dorky looking but then one of my friends shaved off a clean chunk of his scalp and some powder off the skull from an otherwise typical fall and crash. A helmet would have specifically prevented him from having a now huge mangled ugly looking bald spot on the back of his head and the trauma of that experience.

>>2861639
i dont even ride that fast but this one time i passed this slowpoke boomer guy from my town and called out "on your left" as i passed he just about had a stroke right then and there and almost veered off the path. when he caught up to me at the next red light he proceeded to lecture me about how i could have caused someone to crash really bad with that "kind of behaviour". i just told him that i was sorry i offended his delicate sensibilities lol. hes some hip record store owner in my town who nobody likes and has his own radio show on the college radio station that nobody listens to.

>>2862459
You should repeatedly call in to his show and shout
>ON YOUR LEFT

>>2862462
LOL i wish it was a call in show but its just his narcissistic ramblings about his vast obscure music collection

>>2860627
I lived in NH which had super relaxed safety laws. No helmet laws, no seatbelt laws, it was great.

But during summer camp they made us wear helmets. I was a fat kid and one day it was just me and the very fit counselor, so i was struggling to keep up. Anyway, i lost control, hit a rock, went over my handlebars into a tree trunk

I got concussed, and they brought the helmet to the hospital and it was cracked in two like an egg

I've worn a helmet ever since.

>>2862483
>I got concussed, and they brought the helmet to the hospital and it was cracked in two like an egg
Yeah, they're supposed to do that.

>>2862488
well it was effective

>>2860627
I have so many fucking helmets these days.
>a standard bike helmet for quick trips or to throw in a backpack and take to a city for scooter rentals or whatever
>a nice road/gravel bike helmet
>an old skateboard style helmet
>a catchall 4 season multi sport helmet w/ removable face guard and rated for snow/bike/mtb/river/mountain
>2 Snowboarding helmets that I sometimes wear on the bike in winter since they are warmer and fit well with goggles
>a full mask/visor dirt bike helmet for my no-pedaling-req’d e-bike since it’s basically a moped

All of them have MiPS and one of the reg bike helmets has the crumple zones thing.

I also have mirrors on two bikes, Bluetooth lights and blinkers on a bike, and mirrors + rear view camera + blinkers + horn on the e-bike,

Sometimes I go for short trips to the store without a helmet, or just for leisurely rides on paths/suburbs. And I put a front rack on my bike specifically to have a place on bike to store the helmet if I want to take it off.

In 7th grade, back in the 90s, a kid at my school died in a skiing accident. Me and all of my friends basically always wore helmets for everything ever since. Over the years since
>2 friends from back then got impaled on tree branches in snowboard/bike accidents, 1 of them lost a kidney but otherwise they both recovered,
>another friend fucked his back and spine up in a bike accident but recovered,
nobody else died from a head injury though

I tell my kid he’s got to wear one so I lead by example.

>>2860670
>But we have the best cycling infrastructure in the world.

Dutchfags believe this unironically.

They also believe that not wearing a helmet somehow prevents head injuries lmao

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4208832/
>[Dutch] TBI incidence was 213.6 per 100,000 person years.

>In Europe, the annual incidence rate of hospitalized and fatal TBI is about 235 per 100,000 person years.

Fucking retards.

>>2860627
I ride mostly through forest trails, abandoned roads or roads with minimal traffic so I never wore a helmet

Yes, for a few reasons, and I log more miles on my bike than my car

1. I road bike / triathlon train and push myself quite a bit, which has resulted in some falls. Cutting corners tight, trying new maneuvers out, going too fast and hitting an object. It happens rarely but it does happen and want to be prepared when it does

2. When casual biking the trails I ride on are filled with Starbucks soccer moms getting their weekly exercise (1k steps) and have their dogs on long leashes running around out of control, their kids unsupervised running around, parents on phone oblivious to surroundings, etc. basically a lot of potential collisions outside of your control


3. With my kids I teach by example. Monkey see monkey do. Don’t want them to think they don’t have to wear a helmet because I don’t even if I am more than capable to not wear one.


If I was single, 24, lived in a beach town and on the hunt for a volleyball game or on a date trying to impress some babe then probably wouldn’t wear one - so won’t fault those that forgo it

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>>2860627
I should. A couple of years ago I came down a gravel road like that and hit a pothole. Luckily my arm got sandwiched between the ground and my head and took the damage.

It's gonna be some degree of risk factor assessment but I would say 90% or more of my rides I have a helmet. I've fallen on the MTB just a handful of times and on a city ride twice due to trolley tracks and potholes. Typically low speed but even at low speeds I don't want to whack my unprotected head on stuff. On the mountain bike I am not super adventurous even but I like to have a bit of fun and on the roadie I'm doing 18-20 just cruising. In both scenarios I'd rather have somewhere between nothing and a concussion vs severe brain damage. There's nothing that will stop the Jone's being late for soccer practice and doing 45 in a school zone mowing you down in the FORD PEDESTRIAN DESTROYER 5000 MINI ASSAULT SUV but again, risk factor assessment even of my own history is that the major accident hasn't happened but a bunch of minor incidents have so the PPE that helps in the minor incidents is a good investment. The one scenario where I will drop the helmet is when cruising at low speeds on stuff like rail trails and even then I keep it with me to swap back on if I need to go on roads, elevation, or any kind of sketchy surface.

Plus if you are riding a lot a helmet is a buy once cry once type of scenario. People dislike them when they are uncomfortable so if you're an adult go find a good one that actually fits comfortably on your head and maybe carry a comb if you're concerned about what it makes your hair do. Solid manufacturers routinely put old colorways on sale so you can snag a great, lightweight, breathable, boa adjustment helmet that's MIPS rated or similar at discount. I'll also add that a decent pair of inexpensive clear safety glasses are also a good PPE investment. At any higher speed you just don't want to deal with gnats or dirt in your eye, shit sucks.You can ball out with eyewear too but you don't have to.

>>2862945
Is the difference actually significant? Peform a T or chi-square test and report the associated p-value

Never bmxd or skateboarded with a helmet and never hit my head. I just look at my bellybutton and roll

Only serious ouchy I ever got outside of a few broken foot bones, a broken rib, significant road rash (my whole right nipple came off on the pavement, don't worry they grow back), a broken arm, and a broken finger was when a negress gassed through me in an intersection while I was riding my BMX to work

She literally was behind me unobstructed view for a fucking half mile, I went through the crosswalk and she turned right into me and just shit blasted me. After she hit she panicked and whiskey throttled and launched me and the bike skipping across the street. Literally a cop parked in the intersection. He comes out and says even though I had the walk light I can't "blast through the street on my bike and I was at fault" the black girl was maybe 17. She was driving a 2020 caddy that was obviously daddy's. I saw a big ass hole in the bumper from my peg, I heard the "I'm at fault part" grabbed my bike and hoofed it out of there before anyone got my name lol. Still never hit my head though

Fucking niggers claim the police are out to get them, but you can gas through a pedestrian in the crosswalk and cops are too afraid to be racist, they'll throw you a bone every time. Fuck niggers

>>2860823
what do ebiggers have to do with me wearing a helmet?

>>2861271
The right to self determination is kind of a big deal

>>2860824
disgusting
it's the nigger mobile of bicycling

>>2862455
some other part of your body can still get degloved like the dude with his crotch on the stem of the handlebar

>>2860627
When I was younger I was also into road cycling and going fast in traffic, and I didn't bother with my helmet, because I was young and stupid. These days I normally do wear my helmet when cycling. It's rare that I fall off my bike, and I'm not sure I've ever hit my head when falling off, but I just figure it's good to have a helmet on just in case.

>>2863525
in some cases if you go out looking a little 'pro' people do respect you and keep away but don't go full fred

>>2863528
I don't really care how I look. I just think it's sensible to protect my head, just in case I do ever fall off my bike and hit my skull. Some drivers out there are complete cunts so it wouldn't surprise me if one of them knocked me off my bike. In fact I have been hit by vehicles before, but thankfully I didn't hit my head.

>>2863531
you should people noticing you is how you remain safe

>>2863512
The only solution is to wear full impact proof armor at all times forever until you die.