Helmet Debate Part 94

jejv

Apologies if folk have posted this before. Not much new really - I guess if you read Bikeradar, maybe you should wear a helmet, if you just pootle, and you're a grown-up, probably not much point.

Summary:
http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f381 ... eytype=ref

Paper:
http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2674

Think those links are free.

roger_merriman

Well clearly Helmets do something, and that thing is threads on the internet.

Armoring ones self against the main risk which is vehicles, is unlikely to be a terribly fruitful policy, better infrastructure, be that "going dutch" or what ever would seem a more fruitful policy.

This said I have bought a helmet and a one that meets more than the normal specs, since well I the bones are still fusing in the skull after the skull fracture and I assume that the skull will be weaken from this.

Kieran_Burns

I'm not going to enter the 'debate' but when I read something like this:

Cycling is a healthy and popular activity for people of all ages. Crashes involving bicyclists are, however, common and often involve motor vehicles

From: Linked summary

I really have to wonder at the veracity of any argument.

kieranb

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I'm not going to enter the 'debate' but when I read something like this:

Cycling is a healthy and popular activity for people of all ages. Crashes involving bicyclists are, however, common and often involve motor vehicles

From: Linked summary

I really have to wonder at the veracity of any argument.

Agee, but maybe they mean falls whilst doing MTB not just road cycling?

LiveGiantly

Wear a helmet.

CiB

LiveGiantly wrote:

Wear a helmet.

No.

There. That's the debate done. You can drag it out for another 100 pages if it takes your fancy, but you have your view and others can have theirs. Next.

Daz555

LiveGiantly wrote:

Wear a helmet.

....if you want to.

Mikey23

... But thanks for flagging these articles. Interesting and informative

supersonic

Reading through the references to the summary, there seems to be a lot of anal risk...

But on a serious note, an interesting read.