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Use a helmet all the time anyway. Something might happen and you fly over the handlebars, like when my front splash guard broke off, jammed between the wheel an
by porbelm 4y ago
Use a helmet all the time anyway. Something might happen and you fly over the handlebars, like when my front splash guard broke off, jammed between the wheel and the fork, and sent me flying at 20mph. Glad I wore a helmet.
- Raed667 4y agoYes, but that means having a helmet on yourself all the time, which will limit how much you take a bike. (Majority of my biking is done through shared bikes) Also in the city center it is very rare that you'd go faster than 12/15 mph.
- lstodd 4y agoI rode original 2T internal combustion scooters half of my life, all the way from '72 Vespa and up to ~20hp tuned Italjets. And the other half I rode motorcycles. The saying goes - you ride for a season, you fall at least once, no exceptions. I can't understand people whooshing about at 15, well, 10 mph without any sort of protective gear on 4-inch wheels. This is dangerous as hell, it's basically guaranteed hospitalization if you hit so much as a pile of pigeon shit, not to mention a pothole.
- samatman 4y agoI've been riding long enough to have ended up on the bonnet of two cars, and I've rapped my helmet against the ground once. Encourage anyone to wear them. The reason I've never had a serious concussion, broken wrist, etc. has nothing to do with protective equipment, however. It's entirely fall training, from Aikido as a preteen, then Judo as an adult. BJJ is another way to learn this but I'm serious: this is the one thing which is the most likely to downgrade an accident from dire to serious, or serious to okay. Helmets can keep your skull from cracking, but they do very little to prevent the brain from shaking around, what does, is tucking your chin.