good reasons to wear a helmet

Hey Jax

after cursing and bemoaning the fact that i choose to wear a helmet...even on the sunny days weve had, where my long hair makes it feel like Im wearing a wooly hat too .. I was really glad i was wearing it yesterday. I got hit on the head by a low flying pigeon!! It hit me with some force, and the shock unbalanced me for a second! it probably would have felt much worse had i ridden without one!
anyone else had any strange head injuries when cycling?

Stuey01

Hitchcock was on to something - it's started.

bluesacs

Right, I'm not going to have another shower.

Feltup

Climbing on Mount Rushmore is out to.

dirk_van_gently

AAArrrghhhh!! you used the "H" word!

Not had strange injuries.

but whilst out MTBing last weekend, had an off, head meets tree was the result. I walked away with barely a scratch, the H is toast!

Cue forty page thread about the pro's and cons of H :?

jedster

Can I just say that I am breaking the habit of a lifetime and NOT contributing to this thread. You have permission to shoot me if I do,

Thanks

(and no this post doesn't count :roll: )

Feltup

jedster wrote:

Can I just say that I am breaking the habit of a lifetime and NOT contributing to this thread. You have permission to shoot me if I do,

Thanks

(and no this post doesn't count :roll: )

Are you sure?

roger_merriman

magpies in OZ are quite agressive and quite a good good reason to have a helmet on.

The Rookie

Not while cycling, but I've had my head attacked by a bird while swimming in a roof top swimming pool, I think it figured I was a small target until I got the rest of me out of the water!

Helmet cycling yes, swimming no!

Simon

jrduquemin

I crashed my MTB in Spain in February last year and found a huge pebble sticking out of one of the vents in my Animas when I picked myself up afterwards...

FyPunK

Yep to the head injury but the H was no use at all, got hit full on last night doing around 18mph by a bumble bee on the cheek and it foooookin hurt.
Quick google and bees fly an average 13 - 15 mph, so a closing speed of around 31-33 mph!

Feltup

I nearly got hit in the face by a dead bird the other day. Luckily I managed to brake and swerve and it just missed me.










The bird had been hit by a car coming the other way and launched in my direction. Poor thing.

Hey Jax

bluesacs wrote:

Right, I'm not going to have another shower.

huh?? does this mean your smelly/sweatiness is a naural pigeon repellant??

Gussio

Feltup wrote:

I nearly got hit in the face by a dead bird the other day. Luckily I managed to brake and swerve and it just missed me.

The bird had been hit by a car coming the other way and launched in my direction. Poor thing.

Might not have been dead, just playing possum. That or pining for the Fiords.

bluesacs

It's like a force field. Repels birds of all kinds.

Headhuunter

I remember going out for a ride with my dad many years ago and a crow, raven or other type of large black bird seem to take a liking to his helmet and flew at him and seemed to try to land on his head for a few hundred metres til we stopped and shooed it away

Hey Jax

bluesacs wrote:

It's like a force field. Repels birds of all kinds.

HMMM :? I can imagine... the opposite of "The Lynx effect!"

Clever Pun

FyPunK wrote:

Yep to the head injury but the H was no use at all, got hit full on last night doing around 18mph by a bumble bee on the cheek and it foooookin hurt.

yep bees really do hurt

lost_in_thought

Dirk Van Gently wrote:

AAArrrghhhh!! you used the "H" word!

Hitchcock?

jedster

Are you sure?

mmmppphhhmmp (cycling mits stuffed in mouth)

Hey Jax

jedster wrote:

Can I just say that I am breaking the habit of a lifetime and NOT contributing to this thread. You have permission to shoot me if I do,

Thanks

(and no this post doesn't count :roll: )

GO on!! you know you wanna!!
don't have to mention the "H" word.. just dazzle us with some witty anecdote or tale to brighten our day!!

Feltup

jedster wrote:

Are you sure?

mmmppphhhmmp (cycling mits stuffed in mouth)

But you are tempted to return aren't you

cedargreen

I banged my head quite badly yesterday on a cupboard door in the kitchen. Stupidly I wasn't wearing a helmet, despite the fact that it's not the first time this has happened.

And I'd just got back from cycling- without a helmet. Had I worn a helmet while out cycling, it's possible I would still have had it on in the kitchen. I'll certainly be wearing a helmet next time I'm out cycling.

lost_in_thought

cedargreen wrote:

I banged my head quite badly yesterday on a cupboard door in the kitchen. Stupidly I wasn't wearing a helmet, despite the fact that it's not the first time this has happened.

And I'd just got back from cycling- without a helmet. Had I worn a helmet while out cycling, it's possible I would still have had it on in the kitchen. I'll certainly be wearing a helmet next time I'm out cycling.

Greg T

cedargreen wrote:

I banged my head quite badly yesterday on a cupboard door in the kitchen.

Accidents in the home....


MY GOD!!!!

Half a million head injuries a year occur in the house!


2000 - 593,066
2001 - 568,308
2002 - 575,579

ROSPA website

http://www.hassandlass.org.uk/query/MainSelector.aspx

I'm not taking my skid lid off when I'm in the shower or even bedroom from now on. I refuse to enter the kitchen until its bubble wrapped.

il_principe

I just live in a Zorb, a hermetically sealed, air filtered, down lined zorb. Safe from harm...

always_tyred

jashburnham wrote:

I just live in a Zorb, a hermetically sealed, air filtered, down lined zorb. Safe from harm...

How are you managing on the puncture front, in your zorb?

Imagine if Itboffin had a zorb. It would look like a football by now.

il_principe

Always Tyred wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

I just live in a Zorb, a hermetically sealed, air filtered, down lined zorb. Safe from harm...

How are you managing on the puncture front, in your zorb?

Imagine if Itboffin had a zorb. It would look like a football by now.

P*ncture? How would I get one of those? I never go anywhere in my Zorb, it's not safe out there I tell you.

daver1

I can vouch that magpies in Aus are aggressive. On my route to work there was one that used to swoop down and clatter into my helmet every time that I went past. After a few weeks it must have got fed up of crashing into the helmet and and stared coming from the side and getting my ear. I changed my route after it had drawn blood twice in a week.

CiB

Was riding in the other day when a goldfinch flew alongside and carried on next to me, same speed, same direction but on the wrong side of the road (kuh eh? what a nutter), for a good few yards - 20, 50, 127? dunno. Quite lovely, really. I wasn't wearing a helmet, but luckily it didn't turn on me and have a go at me.

Until I read this, I hadn't realised how close to an appallingly unlikely death I'd been. Phew. I can't be on my bike this week, but in it's a warm day and my office window is open, so in readiness I've attached a colander from the kitchens downstairs to my head.

the_hundredth_idiot

Helmet (arguably) protects my head when cycling.
Glasses protect my eyes when cycling.
So that little fooking fly the other day took advantage of my Achilles Heel and flew straight into my open mouth. Cue lots of disgusted spitting. That'll teach me to be a mouth breather. It's nose or nothing all the way from now on.