Whatever...I drove race cars (SCCA) for years and no-one would have considered being in one without belts and helmets.Are they always effective, of course not, but don't try to convince me that helmets on a cyclist are a bad idea.....of course leathers are some protection for abrasions on the body, but your head banging against a curb is well protected by a helmet.
If your head hits the curb at 65, the helmet will likely split--if your cervical vertebrae don't. The body is not designed to withstand that sort of impact.
Like I said, some like 'em, some don't. But for adults, I think it should be their choice.
Whatever...I drove race cars (SCCA) for years and no-one would have considered being in one without belts and helmets.Are they always effective, of course not, but don't try to convince me that helmets on a cyclist are a bad idea.....of course leathers are some protection for abrasions on the body, but your head banging against a curb is well protected by a helmet.
Terycarl, you sound just like the old ladies in tennis shoes who tried to convince the city council in the surf town where I grew up, to pass an ordinance that surfers should be made to wear life jackets. They sounded just about exactly like you: "Don't try to convince me, young man, that wearing a life jacket when you're on a surfboard isn't a good idea!"
Fortunately, saner heads -- akin to Smokin' Joe's -- prevailed, and the surfers in town were protected from know-it-all old ladies who refused to acknowledge the flotation properties of those old farmer-john wetsuits most surfers wore back then in because the water was so damned cold.