Bike Helmet Debate
This cluster centers on debates about the effectiveness of bicycle helmets in preventing injuries, risk compensation effects, barriers to cycling adoption, and arguments for or against mandatory helmet laws.
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just don't leave your house. it protects you from getting run over, being robbed at gunpoint, heartbreak, etc. do you see where your logic fails?this is not news. wearing helmets has been associated with a range of negative issues for years now. (https://road.cc/content/news/268605-wearing-cycle-helmet-may..., <
Happens with bikes as well. People wear helmets for a reason.
What you wrote reminded me of an article on the bike helmet paradox:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/the-bike-...
One flaw in this logic: helmets don't protect against cars ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wearing a helmet is attacking the symptom and not the cause. The cause is that you're biking in a bike-unfriendly environment where the odds are against you. A better solution would be to educate drivers better and assign them more responsibility if something goes wrong, and introduce bike lanes etc.
What possible reason is there to not wear a helmet when riding a bike?
Most cyclists get serious head injuries when they get dinged by cars, of which helmets pretty much offer no protection from, so it is reasonable to not wear a helmet IMO when cycling (except for in rainy/icy conditions where single bicycle accidents are likely).
the fact is that a helmet is not enough to guarantee your safety - if cycling without one is "nuts", cycling with one is too.
Absolutely, this is why I rarely/never wear a helmet. People think of them as essential safety gear in case you get hit by a car, but they offer almost no protection against this risk. They are designed to protect your head if you spontaneously fall off a stationary bicycle. In good weather, at low speeds, on flat, clean roads, these accidents will be very rare for competent cyclists.Cycling is simply a safe, fun means of travel. And you don't need special protective gear unless you
The point is to make cycling the norm. Adding items you need to wear or have (you could mandate a cycling license for instance) increases the barrier to entry and thus use. Moreover, helmets protect only for certain accidents, accidents which are some of the most uncommon.The danger comes mostly from bad infra design and other heavier traffic (cars). Those can be addressed separately, and it turns out pretty well. Leading causes of bike-accidents are now cyclists being distracted by their pho