Hi,
Jdsk wrote:NATURAL ANKLING wrote:One discussion - will a helmet protect you if you fall off........just fall off.
Two, discussion - will a helmet protect you from getting steam rollered by an artic from behind................nothing will.
But a major cause of falling off is the actions of other road users. That doesn't always involve being steamrollered.
Jonathan
You are correct there in the last statement.
I'm not sure if any study has ever divided falling off/being knocked off on head injuries.
I'd be more interested in seeing the difference between wearing and not wearing a helmet in simply head injuries alone.
So all head injuries without a helmet.
Against all knocks and injuries with a helmet to the head only of course.
Forget all other injuries to the body.
There are plenty of theories on having more head knocks Wearing a helmet.
But on a personal level for me I think that with head knocks alone You will be far better off wearing a helmet, I base this on damaging two helmets in the last two years and suffering mild concussion on both occasions.
The reason I said earlier about individuals making their own decision is simply because, different individuals simply have different ways they operate and attitude plays a large part here.
some of us who have cycled with people in groups to find that one or two individuals think they're on some sort of stock car race.
Fortunately I was in the right place at the right time on one outing couple of hundred riders and someone who is renowned for being a bit reckless managed to fall off the bike, they took off several other riders and two of them had to go to hospital, the culprit of course escaped any serious damage.
This sort of thing used to happen sometimes when I was greenlining on motorcycles, fortunately neither of us ever came to grief, with exception of one Particula day someone had a good idea to play motofootball, My brother broke his wrist going over the handlebars.