I get hot and sweaty.Are there any dis-advantages with wearing a helmet?
According to research, yes - vehicles are less likely to give you as much room when overtaking, compared to non helmet wearers (or better than that, non helmet wearing women).Are there any dis-advantages with wearing a helmet?
When I asked her why, she said she never rode on the main road so didn't need one
so it was nothing to do with the hair then ?Its strange since starting back on the my bike over a year ago, I began by always wearing a helmet.
My wife being an ex nurse was insistant that I should and the kids always use to when we forced them lol.
Last summer she started to ride to work every day a short distance and I noticed she never wore a helmet
When I asked her why, she said she never rode on the main road so didn't need one
Well the last few months I have stopped wearing one and I have to say I feel like I have been set free. It opens up the space around me, plus I don't end up with extra baggage to carry round with me either end of the ride.
I have to say I am unconvinced either way if I should wear one, but it so much easier not too!
Regards
Jerry
I should add (but I don't know the research) that there could be some risk compensation - so you feel safer and adjust your risk accordingly. It is possible that helmet wearers (of which I am one) could ride more dangerously....I actually feel more vunrable without one and riding, same with gloves....
I'm living evidence of the other side of this coin, not wearing one possibly makes one safer. I've always taken great care not to bang my head in over 64 years of cycling and have avoided getting any other injuries cycling during that time. Of course for around half of those years, wearing one was not an option, they didn't exist.I should add (but I don't know the research) that there could be some risk compensation - so you feel safer and adjust your risk accordingly. It is possible that helmet wearers (of which I am one) could ride more dangerously.
Yup, it is!Oops, this seems to be turning into a proper helmet debate!
Huh, I didn't start the thread, just responded. Didn't realise that was frowned on!Yup, it is!
Moglie's medical contribution completes the familiar wearer and non-wearer argument pattern which on past evidence will now be repeated over and over again for at least five web pages.
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