There is risk in pretty much everything we do in life. As you point out, unless compelled to do otherwise by laws, we all assess and respond to those risks in different ways. I didn’t see the article as saying that bicycling is risky (a high rate of accidents), just that wearing a helmet can reduce the incidence of injuries if your head hits the ground.
And yes, people injure their heads by slipping in the shower. And yes, if we all wore a helmet in the shower we could probably avoid some injuries. That ignores that fact that wearing a helmet would interfere with a common part of showering: the washing of one’s hair. Wearing a bicycle helmet doesn’t interfere with anything I’m doing on a bike. P.S. Sorry for dipping my toe into this debate. Flame on! --Eric Norris [email protected] www.campyonly.com campyonlyguy.blogspot.com > On Nov 22, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not anti helmet and if I know I'm going down I would choose to have a > helmet on. The article as many suggests that cycling is dangerous and 59% > better chance of surviving a terrible crash. > Well .. trouble is the chance of me having that terrible crash is pretty > insignificant. Regardless of that I was enjoying the article right up until > it states we needed laws to force helmet use. > That is the point I will stand up yet again and state that giving bureaucrats > power over me in even more aspects of my life is unacceptable. They fail to > break down the instances of sport riders to casual riders, computers etc. > > > Any my opinion only the article doesn't really tell me anything to make me > thing the helmet is anymore useful on a bicycle that it is in the shower or > walking down steps. > > Kelly > > > On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 9:02:05 PM UTC-6, Eric Norris wrote: > Not that this is going to change a single mind on the subject, but it is > perhaps of interest to some: > > https://www.facs.org/media/press-releases/2015/haider > <https://www.facs.org/media/press-releases/2015/haider> > > And yes, I realize that the helmet and non-helmet camps have firmly > established their entrenched positions, which have been expressed many times > on this forum. > > --Eric Norris > [email protected] <javascript:> > www.campyonly.com <http://www.campyonly.com/> > campyonlyguy.blogspot.com <http://campyonlyguy.blogspot.com/> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch > <http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
