As someone who bicycles everyday in a metropolitan city (SF) and also has been in a near fatal car/bicycle accident, i use a helmet every time i ride. People drive crazy here, and not wearing a helmet and getting hit by a car can mean the difference between a hospital stay and a trip to the morgue.
After spending three weeks in SF General hospital with a shattered leg and skin grafts, and nearly a year and a half off of a bicycle, i'm afraid to ride without one. and now, it just feels like a habit. i understand this guy's point as far as getting cyclists on the road by taking the "fear" out of it, but i also very much understand the use and impact of carefully selected statistics. i'm not afraid of cycling, i'm afraid of smashing my skull. If you look at this website: http://www.bhsi.org/stats.htm , you can see that of all bicycle deaths in 2008, 91% were not wearing helmets, while the other 9% were. I think that's a rather clear statistic. You may have a low chance of actually getting in an accident on your bicycle compared to lets say, driving a car, but if you do, it looks as though helmets will save your life. On Mar 15, 5:03 pm, eflayer <eddie.fla...@att.net> wrote: > not sure what the points of view are, but this guy, to me, is an hot > air baloon....full of hot air. Not even considering his point of view > about helmets, just how arrrogant he sounds/is: > > http://video.tedxcopenhagen.dk/video/911034/mikael-colville-andersen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
