some scrapes and sore as fuck, but no broken bones and no broken noggin
I flipped my bike in 2016 and my helmet saved me twice, once when it hit the asphalt, once when my bike came over and smashed into the top.
Split it almost comically in half.
I kept it on my desk when I worked on bikes. Every single person who bought a bike got interrogated about whether they have a helmet. Every single person got the lecture on helmet safety. If they seemed iffy or unconvinced, I’ll ask them if they want this to be their skull instead. That convinced them every time.
Some people don’t think you need a helmet until you fucking need a hekmet. But then it’s too late.
Congrats o surviving the crash, make sure to replace ASAP! (though I doubt you need a reminder lol)
I watched a guy fumble with his pedals at 0 mph, fall down and hit his head on concrete. Major Neuro trauma.
I’m gonna be the really unpopular guy and ask for some kind of evidence of this. I don’t want to imply insincerity but every helmet thread on the internet has some one-liner about massive stationary trauma like this one, and as a clumsy cyclist myself it doesn’t pass my gut check (Even when I remind myself that skull-cracking cement curbs are car infrastructure). I know lots of cyclists in person and none of them have an example of such a particular and severe injury. If you don’t have a link to news story or social post, if someone else here does? I either want to prove my gut wrong and be put in my place, or stand up on a soapbox over this one. Sorry, I don’t want to be adversarial, but I do want facts in my helmet threads.
And this is why my opinion of someone drops by ten points whenever I hear them make fun of someone for wearing safety gear
Remember: it’s very hot to care about your own life and wellbeing~
PPE is drip and you can’t change my mind!
How do you keep track of all the different levels of respect and disdain needed to support this rating system? /s
helmets FTW.
i still remember when i was walking around my countryside in november on some very slippery ice. expectedly, i slipped and fell straight on my head. the only thing that saved me was that i was still in my airsoft uniform from a match earlier that day, and the helmet absorbed the impact.
That was almost your calculator!
Yep, helmets save lives!
I know enough about bike helmets to realize that, in that situation, your brain would be scattered all over the ground if you weren’t wearing one.
I just wish I could find more stylish ones. Or more biodegradable ones. Or both.
Yeah yeah, I’ll keep wearing them of course.
The thing that drives me crazy, and something I see way more often, is people riding at night with no lights. Terrible idea. Surround your shit with lights. Be a wheeling christmas tree if you have to, or it is only a matter of time before you will be hit.
Also rear-view mirrors are underrated, though I wish companies would manufacture ones that are more sturdy, less floppy.
Biodegradable bicycle helmet:
And more stylish
Alright, heading to the grocery store then…
I won’t go back to riding without a mirror, not in the city at least.
Same. They should be on bikes by default.
How do you have them positioned? I have mirrors on my bike but they kinda useless, the slight movements I make on the handlebars+bumps in the road make them too hard to see. If I put them more at the center of my handlebars so they move less then I can’t see anything but my own bike.
I only have one on the left side and it’s mounted close to the outer end of the handlebar. Mine looks like this:
And it’s pretty sturdy. I’ve had flimsier mirrors before that had the same problems you describe.
That looks pretty good I’ll have to try and find one in that style thanks!
Ugh…Ive seen cyclist ram into the back of cars looking too long in their mirrors.
I’ve seen car drivers do the same, what’s your point?
How did you fall?
The curvature of spacetime caused the ground to accelerate towards OP
HELL YEAH safety
now imagine this but on your skull and you are forty so this will take five years to heal
completely%95Out of curiosity, how fast were you and was it a casual ride?
At my average (or even maximum speed), it’s hard to imagine that I would get to that level or damage on a helmet unless I’m run over by car.
I broke my wrist and fractured 2 ribs doing 15kph. Also wore a helmet, can’t remember how bad it looked, but had to be replaced.
It doesn’t need much to be unlucky.
Absolutely. Cars and most country’s nearly ubiquitous car-centric infrastructure transforms the otherwise harmless bicycle ride into a fraught and sometimes downright dangerous experience. Unless you have the luxury of living somewhere that has gone through the concerted political process of rejecting motornormativity and transforming your infrastructure to one that accommodates human-scale transportation (We’re all looking enviously at you, Netherlands), helmets are just one of many externalities that we must shoulder as cyclists to accommodate our ultimately ruinous and unsustainable driving-as-default policies.
been there, done that
