Do you always wear your helmet? - Page 6

I don't see the problem with helmet laws. There is no innate or stated right for someone to be able to use a road for their car or bicycle. For a car, you have to be licensed and have to follow the laws. As a cyclist, you have to follow the laws. Sounds fair. If someone doesn't want to wear a helmet, they can just skip pedaling on the roads or where ever the helmet is required. There's always mountain biking or cyclocross.

Every time I hear "nanny state," it's in the context, 9 times out of 10, some sort of complaining or whining. The use of "nanny state" is an exaggeration in itself. But that's politics and a topic for some other forum.

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Since starting out again riding, about 3 weeks ago (Not cycled in about 10 years before hand) I always wear my helmet, my high grip gloves and my rear light is always attached in case of a downpour that reduces visibility.

I always wear my helmet when I ride! I just took a horrible spill this passed weekend, without my helmet I'm sure I would have been knocked out.

ALWAYS !
18 years ago I was decending a hill at 40 mph. A dog ran out in front of me and in a split second I hit the dog and was launched over the bars. Landed on my back and my head "slapped" the asphault. Helmet crushed. Total road rash...EVERYWHERE.
Went to the hospital and NO broken bones. Doc said without the helmet I would have been a gonner. 3 days later the top of my head (about a 5 inch diameter circle) was a deep purple and elevated about 1/4 inch. Called the Doc and he said all will be fine. Ya know I never even had a headache.
The road rash took weeks to heal.
I type here because...."I WORE A HELMET" and still do.
Remember, live to tell your stories.........."Safe cycling"

Aboslutely!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm also a trauma nurse. Helmets save lives! I live in Portland, and I've seen a few old school idiots and hipsters wearing nothing. That's why they end up in the hospital brain dead or they will never walk, feed themselves, or wipe their own butt again.

Well, the good thing about helmetless riders--both bicycle and motorcycle--is that given the country's need for more donated organs, the helmetless provide what can be a terrific source of multiple organs.

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Yeah, I mentioned it earlier in the thread, but if you didn't see it I'll say it again. In my state, Texas, we go back and forth on helmet laws being strong and weak. Apparently it's a free country and the government shouldn't stop you from being wreckless with your life if you want to be wreckless. (even though it drives up costs for everyone else).

But yeah, so they actually correlated a reduction in organ donations during years when helmet laws were stronger and vice versa.

Sometimes my friends give me a hard time for wearing a helmet on rides to campus and stuff, but I've seen some pretty bad crashes, and I'm not going to take any risks beyond riding on the road with idiots that can't drive and ignore the bike lane.

I'm all in favor of more organ donations, so all you organ donors out there riding without helmets, ride more! You can give the gift of life to someone else!

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