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 How often do you wear a helmet ?

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Alan White
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Matt
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DaveP
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PostSubject: How often do you wear a helmet ?   How often do you wear a helmet ? Icon_minitimeWed Feb 27, 2008 10:37 am

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Matt
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PostSubject: Helmet Wearing   How often do you wear a helmet ? Icon_minitimeWed Feb 27, 2008 2:31 pm

Here's a subject that's had plenty of hammer! I have to say though, that anyone who doesn't wear a helmet when cycling off road (other than perhaps tootling along on a canal towpath), is a bit daft. Wearing a helmet certainly saved my bacon when I came a cropper on some tricky single track in Spain. I reckon it might have been a fractured skull without one. Also, the thought of my head connecting at speed with a tree always makes me cringe a bit - trees don't give! Look what damage they do to cars when hit at speed, never mind skulls! Yes.....helmets are a must off road in my opinion. And I always wear mine on road, because I'm use to wearing it off road.

Matt
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PostSubject: Re: How often do you wear a helmet ?   How often do you wear a helmet ? Icon_minitimeThu Feb 28, 2008 8:18 am

I only ever wear a helmet if it's a race requirement. I find them bulky and restrictive. I've come off may times throughout my career and have always been ok - tends to be the legs and arms that suffer

Life's too short to be uncomfortable ! I'll take my chances..... Until a law is passed.

FG
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Alan White
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PostSubject: Helmets, how often?   How often do you wear a helmet ? Icon_minitimeFri Feb 29, 2008 3:47 am

Wear mine every time. Two reasons really, saved a broken skull on more than one occasion and puts money back into the economy every time I have to replace it. True altruism!!!
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kevin hardman
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PostSubject: Re: How often do you wear a helmet ?   How often do you wear a helmet ? Icon_minitimeFri Mar 07, 2008 1:34 pm

Administrator wrote:
How often do you wear a helmet ? Feel free to comment further !
do not wear a helmet when riding on my own on the road do when in groups or mountain biking
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PostSubject: HELMET   How often do you wear a helmet ? Icon_minitimeSun Jul 12, 2009 2:15 pm

NEVER
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PostSubject: Helmet's   How often do you wear a helmet ? Icon_minitimeMon Jul 13, 2009 6:16 am

Every single ride, even if just riding in our close with my daughter to set an example.

Recently a Judge reduced the amount of compensation a cyclist recieved due to him not wearing a helmet!! The judge stated that the cyclist was partly to blame for the severity of his injuries as he was not wearing a helmet.

Helmets no longer weigh as much as much as a bowling ball and the ventilation provided by some models are more than enough.

Some countries a little more forward thinking than ours have made them compulsary!

Off my soap box now! Matt
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PostSubject: Re: How often do you wear a helmet ?   How often do you wear a helmet ? Icon_minitimeMon Jul 13, 2009 7:21 am

Got to agree with Matt on this one. ( Although it hurts to say so ) Anyone who rides without a helmet has obviously never seen anyone come off a bike and hit solid tarmac. Nowadays there is no excuse. At the end of the day it shows how much you value your life. Having come off on a few occasions it has prevented further damage to my skull.
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PostSubject: Helmets   How often do you wear a helmet ? Icon_minitimeTue Jul 14, 2009 1:34 pm

Hey Jim if it hurts when i'm right you must constantly be in pain, 6 days to your 50th affraid
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PostSubject: Re: How often do you wear a helmet ?   How often do you wear a helmet ? Icon_minitimeWed Jul 15, 2009 12:15 pm

Guess that makes you 43 ! You still aint gettin a card.
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