Why I Don't Wear a Bicycle Helmet

Should You Wear a Bicycle Helmet, the great debate.
0:00 intro
0:37 careful
1:33 effectiveness
2:41 misconceptions
4:28 relationship
5:40 shaming
6:33 freedom
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[TerryB]

I wear a helmet 90% of the time. Wear it or don't it's your choice.

[HollowedGlass]

Helmets aren't to protect you from impact with motor vehicles, they're to protect your head from impact with the ground.

[asork]

I was hit by a car from behind that i wasnt expecting. I was really bruised and away from my bike for a couple of weeks. When i recovered i saw my helmet cracked and crushed from the impact. I didnt even knew i hit my head that day. Im thankful i was wearing a helmet

[Flako-dd]

Murphy's law: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." - This means that anything will *eventually* go wrong.
I certainly had enough crashes where the Helmet prevented head injuries.
I highly recommend it for everybody that rides daily and with an above average speed, or any type of Sport Cycling.
But still I am against mandatory Helmet Laws, since it will prevent people who are just getting from A to B at party pace to ride a Bike.

[thombloom]

I remember being tackled by a police officer here in Australia for not wearing a helmet, somehow he didn’t get the irony of pushing me to the ground for not wearing protective equipment.

[wematanye]

7 minutes and 57 seconds of pure unfettered confirmation bias.

[KenWoodsNL]

Hi from The Netherlands. It's incorrect to say "nobody wears a helmet" here. It's not common for the dutch upright bikes, (the standard bike), because they go 20kph and bikes have the right-of-way everywhere. Those of us who ride "racefiets" aka, "road bikes" wear helmets because we ride at 40-60kph and ride with cars. In the end, it's personal choice. Wear one, or don't. Is it just an American thing to poke your face into somebody else and if they wear a helmet or not?

[daltonbartholomew]

He definitely raised some points I’ve never thought about. That being said, I often ride very fast and aggressively on and off road, for that reason I wear a helmet. I was cut off by a car and sent over the handlebars while going 30 mph. I broke a collar bone and crack my helmet in 5 places. Wearing a helmet saved my life as I know it. Let’s not judge each other and ride bikes ✌🏼

[VeloObscura]

2 Years ago I had a severe bike crash in which my head hit the ground HARD and I was knocked unconscious. I was in a fairly remote area, so I was taken to hospital via helicopter. I suffered a severe concussion and had some memory loss, but thankfully I was fine. Even if my helmet was 90% less effective than they're touted to be - I'm still glad I had that 10%.

[ibanez]

Went OTB last year and the visor on the helmet was completely destroyed and the helmet mashed up. I still ended up with a nasty concussion. Wearing no helmet would have 100% been brain damage/bleeding/fractured skull. This was after 15+ years riding without a single major crash. I don't care how safe you think you are, you WILL hit a random pothole and go OTB at some point. Maybe you'll get lucky and walk away with a couple of fractured wrists. With all that said, life is short, ride how you like!

[acbenepe]

My mantra with the whole helmet thing is, it only has to work once. (in my case twice)

[BenNuProductions]

The way I ride in the city gives cyclists a bad name so I like the helmet.

[BrownianMotionPicture]

I didn't wear one for the first 20 years I was into cycling, but last year I figured I've rolled enough dice and bought one. I think ego is a big part of why I didn't wear one.

[maisol_]

I personally don’t feel safer wearing a helmet, but my wife and my mom are a little less worried about me, so I do wear a helmet most of times now!

[sellitman]

I'll pray for you to continue your streak of good luck. The ground is just as hard as most cars. I'll continue to wear mine . Cheers.

[j]

I'm 45, I mostly ride trails. I fell off of my bike on a route I ride almost 3 times a week. My 32" gravel tires slid perfectly into a gap between 2 pavers on a shared walk/bike path as I was trying to avoid peds and this large uneven portion of the walkway. My knees, hands, right shoulder & leg hurt for weeks (my age). I hit my head near my brow bone and dented my helmet... I was probably going 6mph. My head was the only part that was without a scratch and not in pain.

[marwanitoh]

wait, im from europe and i had absolutely no idea what people's views on helmets were. Nobody wears one here in italy and we dont look down on who does or who doesnt, we dont really notice at all

[NightlightCompass]

this internal debate was settled for me after a car turned into my path with zero warning.
i got up off the pavement, and did NOT say to myself "I wish I wasn't wearing a helmet"

[Shifter_Cycling]

The world I dream of is the one where those who truly care about the safety of cyclists put as much effort into advocating for safe infrastructure as they do shaming people who choose not to wear a helmet. I hope we can move past helmet fundamentalism and see the true path toward safer urban cycling.

[Lehmann]

The main reason this clown doesn't wear a bike helmet: He's never been in a serious bike accident. All it takes is one serious bike crash where you smack your head on the ground to change your mind about helmets or make you thankful for wearing one. As the emergency room physician said to me a few years back, "It's a good thing you were wearing a helmet otherwise you'd have a skull fracture along with this concussion. And by the way, it doesn't matter how safely you ride, accidents happen so fast, so quickly, so unexpectedly.