Jonathon Maus over on BikePortland.org has a great forum on the site, and there's a pretty active thread about wearing / not wearing helmets while biking:

from “wsbob”:

“…cyclists chances of coming out of a fall or crash in better condition while wearing a helmet seem likely to be far better than without one…”

from “tfahrner”:

“…I don’t wear a helmet often because I don’t believe that non-sport-oriented bicycling on quiet routes about town is sufficiently dangerous to warrant such precautionary measures. I am particularly averse to instilling or reinforcing in the minds of others the ideas that (a) bicycling thus conceived is dangerous enough to require body armor and (b) any dangers that exist in public space are the responsibility of the potential victims to compensate for…”

from “aaron”:

“..if there is going to be a helmet law, then the helmets should be made better and car drivers and passengers should also be required to wear them too…”

Go and check it out for lots of pro and anti arguments about helmet use.


[photo credit: BikePortland.org]

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