need a few pics to convince my nephew to wear a helmet

appy

show us a few facial injuries youve recieved as my 7 year old nephew doesnt want to wear his helmet
cheers

The Northern Monkey

theres a god one of a guy literally about to smack his face on the concrete... i'l see if I can find it.

The Northern Monkey

The Northern Monkey

Rach Atherton after she played chicken with a truck.

appy

cheers just off to halfords now to get him one lol

nicklouse

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8058771.stm

jenine

tell him if he dosent wear one he could end up being spoon feed for the rest of his life, i used to work with people like that, not nice!!!

projectsome

get a helmet and smack him upside the head (not too hard, that's child abuse) and say to him "If you were wearing the helmet I wouldn't have been able to do that, and if you fell off it'd feel alot worse."

blakef111

it may sound sill but when i was a nipper i only started wearing a helmet when i got a good looking one, get him a plain looking p*ss pot lid and wait for MBUK to give away stickers, then he can create his own style helmet and as such he may be more inclined to wear it! also show him some pictures of guys like cam mcaul or chris smith with their stickered lids and that may help too.

docker0141

bigbenj_08 wrote:

theres a god one of a guy literally about to smack his face on the concrete... i'l see if I can find it.

this one????

supersonic

I bet he had a mid air brown trouser incident there.

The Northern Monkey

docker0141
nuh... apparently that guy was fine after that incident.

Theres a pic of a guy upside down about 2 inches from the floor with his face about to take the full force of the fall.

tompug

I have just started to walk unassisted after breaking my back over 6 weeks ago. I definately would not be here if it were not for my helmet.

I would not use shock treatment to persude him, it doesn't work. You need to show him that ALL pro riders wear helmets, and you can't be good if you don't wear one.

Davy-g

http://www.gifbin.com/981429

Butters

From here.

dave_hill

tompug wrote:

I would not use shock treatment to persude him, it doesn't work. You need to show him that ALL pro riders wear helmets, and you can't be good if you don't wear one.

Agreed, let him watch Roam or one of the NWD videos and gently point out that all the pros wear helmets....

Anonymous

smash his face in, twice daily whether he wears a helmet or not. this is the way to raise all children.

John Stevenson

Give him loads of sanctimonious lectures about wearing helmets, help him decide that cyclists are all up-themselves wankers and he'd far rather play XBOX, Help him on the path to becoming yet another junior lardling and feel that fabulous frisson of guilt when he drops dead of an obesity-related heart attack at 35.

Or you could, you know, just be happy that he's riding a bike, doing something healthy and active and outdoorsy.

dave_hill

sheepsteeth wrote:

smash his face in, twice daily whether he wears a helmet or not. this is the way to raise all children.

Or as a mate of mine used to say - "Children are the future. Which is why we must stop them. Now."

fourcrossjohn

this is me

one day i couldnt be bothered to trapse to my room to get my helmet

i wish i did looking back on it

Tim.s

Full face, at all times

Speckled Pants

If only he could have seen the tree that landed on my head today (ok branch but it was a beast)

I still cant quite belive it, i stopped for 2 mins under a tree to scrape some mud from my cleats and in that time a big branch snapped off the tree and landed on my head it dropped from quite a hight too as it really smacked my neck down.

Lesson learnt today - always wear your helmet even when your not riding

Bobhellen

Tim.s wrote:

Full face, at all times

all ways have the helmet on :P

Anonymous

To be honest a seven year old should be told that NO Helmet = No bike

Why should there be a need to show him pictures like this.

You'll be letting him become a funny eater next.

Rockhopper

Its difficult to convince youngsters to wear helmets as many of the cyclists you see on a daily basis are roadies. You very rarely see road cyclists wearing helmets unless they are in a competition and they only tend to wear them then becasue the UCI regulations make it mandatory! Most mountain bikers i meet wear them but by their nature you don't see them riding on the road very often.
Statistics don't really back up the claims that helmets save lives or prevent serious injury either.
From my point of veiw i always wear a helmet. I had one serious crash last year that would have been far worse if i'd not had my lid on. As it was i broke my arm which was bad enough!

appy

jstock wrote:

To be honest a seven year old should be told that NO Helmet = No bike

Why should there be a need to show him pictures like this.

You'll be letting him become a funny eater next.

because he only stays with me every few weekends so if i can get him to make his own mind up that helmets are cool then he will wear it when im not there hopefully.

its not about giving him lectures or trying to shock him, hes a very clever 7 year old so will make his own mind up. ive also been through a few of m magazines and showed him some red bull x games clips so hes seen all the pros wearing them

cheers for all the input

right just need to persuade him that Crewe Alexandra are a far better team than Man UTD lol ...any ideas ??? ha ha

xtreem

bigbenj_08, this one?
I easly found it, because I've posted it.

mea00csf

Rockhopper wrote:

Its difficult to convince youngsters to wear helmets as many of the cyclists you see on a daily basis are roadies. You very rarely see road cyclists wearing helmets unless they are in a competition and they only tend to wear them then becasue the UCI regulations make it mandatory! Most mountain bikers i meet wear them but by their nature you don't see them riding on the road very often.
Statistics don't really back up the claims that helmets save lives or prevent serious injury either.
From my point of veiw i always wear a helmet. I had one serious crash last year that would have been far worse if i'd not had my lid on. As it was i broke my arm which was bad enough!

really? All roadies I've seen wear helmets, and all mountain bikers. Pretty much the only group of cyclists i see who don't usually wear helmets are casual cyclists, the ones who who are clearly going from a to b, or just pottering around on the pavement.

The Northern Monkey

Xtreem
I knew it was you that had it!

John Stevenson

Do you busy-bodies go round telling people to wear helmets in the bathroom too?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id= ... 5news#Mark

The Northern Monkey

John Stevenson
Damn! I'm not safe anywhere.... gonna go put the FF on now just incase!