ok people, I need answers

Dear Lidless,

I have a ~$35 helmet and my head has not yet caught fire from the heat. And if it did, I think extra holes would just fan the flames anyhow. Go cheap.

Bear, purple is your color.

Hawkeye, that's the one I was looking at, and if you say it's cool, I gotta get it

andrea, a kids helmet would be AWESOME especially with fun stuff on it.

Alpine87- just bought a new bike, and the old helmet first of all doesn't match and second, is so old it's not race legal, CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT, that makes me feel sooo old.  Thanks for the help people, i knew you'd be there for me

You guys wear helmets?

Just to clarify:

I was being facetious...

a lady died on the lakefront because she wasn't wearing a helmet but was only going about 8mph when she hit a runner who popped out in front of her, lost her balance, and hit her head HARD as she fell off her bike.

cause of death?  head trauma.

a helmet would have saved her life!

Just a few short years ago riding MTB on a gentle trail with my daughter we were traversing a footbridge over a small ravine, or dry riverbed-thingy, with the bridge being about 8 feet above ground, and trying to show off in front of my daughter, I guess (can't think of any other reason for my next move) I decided to bunny hop over the side of the bridge. Being on a long travel full suspension bike, I thought I could just take the drop without any problem while we were cruising along at an easy 5 mph when I caught my rear wheel on the side of the bridge, causing me to catapult over the handlebars and landed squarely on the top of my head. It didn't help that the rear suspension, I think, compressed during my take-off and gave additional power that really threw me hard. In retrospect, I'd wished someone was filming it; I'd really like to see how much air and hang time I actually got!

I was unconscious for a few minutes, waking to my daughter's screams in her panicked state. I was able to get up and managed to make it home, thankfully living only a short distance away, but I suffered a severe compression injury to my cervical spine and a kick-ass case of whiplash. Two years of physio and chiropractic later, I still have chronic neck pain (minor enough so as not to slow me down, but I have quite a bit of arthritic changes there).

The point of my story: I never rode with a helmet. Ever. Except that day, setting out frome home with my daughter, I made her put her helmet on and she insisted that if she had to wear her helmet, so should I, so I dusted my lid off and put it on, figuring it was good to set an example.

If I hadn't been wearing that helmet, I've been told I easily could have suffered enough brain trauma to have killed me, or at least severely debilitated me.

The helmet? The rigid shell was splintered and the foam compressed pretty severely. Better my helmet than my melon.

WEAR YOUR HELMET ON EVERY RIDE!

Trizzle...it's about 1) the feel (gotta fit), 2) the ventilation (more holes IS better), and finally, 3) the looks. Last year's models are perfect. 

I wear a holy Bell helment which replaced a not so holy bell helmet.  What a difference.  Go holy. 

Here's a nice helmet for you, its even got the fancy air foil...it might be a little too retro for someone of your taste.

Edited by Motivated 2005-03-09 10:46 PM

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