When people don’t wear bike helmets

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I know there un cool not the comfort-ablest thing and pain to have to carry once your bikes locked up. but why don’t more people where them I once fell off my bike and my helmet completely cracked could of
Been my head had I not worn it 26,000 people are treated in hospital for brain and head injuries every year due to not wearing a helmet.

In my state in the US helmets are not a legal requirement on motorcycles after the age of 21.

...but under 18s must wear a helmet when riding a bike, right?

fitisafeministissue.com/2018/06/11/helmets-yes-usually-helmet-laws-no/

Must be helmet day as I literally just read this on fit is a feminist issue.

Having said that, writing on a forum isn’t necessarily going to make you any better at using English if you have no idea whether you’re doing it right 😂

Also, not only is cycling very safe, it actually helps prevent lost of illness and disease. So as a society we should be promoting it rather than putting obstacles (such as the need to wear helmets) in peoples way.

I wear one and I make my kids wear one but I fully support anyone’s else’s right NOT to wear one.

I don’t understand, however, when you see parents cycling along with kids and the kids are wearing them and the parents are not.

could HAVE, could HAVE, could HAVE! Not 'could of'.

It's not 'could of.', it's 'could of'.

I don’t understand, however, when you see parents cycling along with kids and the kids are wearing them and the parents are not.

In my case that would be because it's a legal requirement in my state for children to wear them, but not for adults.

We would save more lives if people wore crash helmets when in the car. Why don't we do that?

but under 18s must wear a helmet when riding a bike, right? correct but I am not 100% sure if that’s all stayes.

I find that criticizing spelling adds nothing to threads.

when you see parents cycling along with kids and the kids are wearing them and the parents are not

Maybe their kids are not so good at cycling as them and more likely to fall off?

Maybe they fear being judged as 'bad parents' by judgemental ignoramuses who don't realise that cycling is a VERY SAFE activity.

Most cyclists in the Netherlands, Denmark and other countries where cycling is popular rarely wear helmets and their rates of head injuries are very low. Most serious head injuries occur in cars yet no one wears helmets in cars. Drivers have been shown to take more care around non-helmet wearing cyclists and pass wider. There are huge health benifits to cycling which far out weigh the small risk of falling off and hitting your head. And finally helmets are little protection against the main causes of cycling injuries namely cars and lorries.
We need more people to cycle more often and helmets are a distraction from the real issues namely a lack of decent infrastructure.

I do wear one but it is a subject of some debate. Loads of studies have shown that on a population level, wearing helmets don't make much difference to death rates of cyclists in collisions. Places like Holland and Denmark, where cycling is much more widespread - hardly anyone wears one. However in individual cases, it's true that a helmet can provide some measure of protection in some cases (though won't do much to help in collisions over 12 mph)

I'm interested in people like Henry Marsh, a famous neurosurgeon, who don't wear them and their reasons why they don't.

I had to put my DS in knee pads/ helmet when he was riding with stabilisers he kept falling off.

The you tube video was very interesting .. Made me think

It’s a red herring

The country that cycles the most without helmets has the least head injuries from Cycling

50% of head injuries occur in cars, so why don’t motorists wear helmets?

At my son's school the bike storage area is kept locked and the school caretaker sits outside for the 1/2 an hour that it's open. If you don't have a bike helmet on as you cycle in then he tells you not to bring your bike the next day as you aren't allowed to put it in the bike storage

I banned by DSD from wearing a helmet on her scooter as she doesn't take risks. She wears one on her bike as she is prone to falling off and goes slower than 12mph.

Oh and her mother doesn't take her out to do those activities even though she has been encouraged to.

Could the grammar pedants stop and think about whether English may or may not be the OPs first language or whether she may have SENs before picking her up on inconsequential inaccuracies in her post?

It's a chat forum not a professional publication FFS and the OPs point is perfectly clear, unless you are a bit dim yourself, of course.

There’s some quite strange views here. I know there’s a weird sect of cyclists who are dead against helmets but literally every cyclist I know has had a near miss where they’ve thought ‘if I hadn’t had my helmet, that could have been much worse’ and wouldn’t dream of going out without one. Recently my husbands life was saved by his. He came off at 25 mph, helmet smashed into 10 pieces and he came out with a small skull fracture (and broken collar bone, standard). Are you really going to tell me that he’d still be here if that force had been taken by his skull with no layer of protection? My db who lives there says In the Netherlands, most cycle on proper cycle paths and they don’t cycle fast (most people won’t be out for sport but general transport) plus it’s flat so I guess that makes it automatically safer than the horrendous roads here. I think they should be mandatory here.

I don't wear a cycle helmet and I don't make my kids wear one. I've done a risk assessment and the risk is low. If I started to make them wear helmets they would just choose not to ride their bikes and spend more time indoors. There are risks to that too. ( They are too old for me to force them out on the bikes these days)

People in Holland and Denmark don't have as much need to wear cycling helmets because they aren't made to play dodge the lorry when they ride their bikes, they have proper cycle lanes that are safely separated from traffic, not the abomination of an afterthought that the UK has.

@brizzledrizzle what an officious twat. Seriously, if kids are put off cycling because of him then he has their early death from diabetes, heart disease, cancer etc. on his hands.

OK, maybe a bit dramatic , but I would definitely be complaining to the school about this!

I wear a bright red one and a hi viz yellow one, not because I think they protect your head in a crash. I personally dont think they do but they improve your visibility to motorists theres no doubt in my mind.

Cycling for sport is different. You are going much faster and at the limits of your capability. So there may be an argument there. Same as racing car drivers wear crash helmets and regular drivers don't.

Here's a link to 10 reasons why cycling is good for you.