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Oh, yeah, San Diego, where high temperatures have been in the high 60s to 70s for the past month. Try riding in hot weather -- high 80s to high 90s, like the NYC area has been getting. Putting a styrofoam cap on your head makes you hotter, no question.
Have to disagree, if you are going more than 12 mph or so you generate a breeze so not true. It keeps the sun off your skin directly. Why do farm workers wear long sleeves and jeans when it's 100+? To keep the sun off your skin directly. It's not a flack jacket, modern helmets have vents for a reason.
If you are standing around bs-ing with a helmet then ya. Hot.
Strange. Other than this one guy I knew who had acquired brain damage as the result of an accident, the only time I've ever seen many of them, was when I did a google search for "acquired brain damage." I've heard of a couple of people in neighboring towns that had brain damage due to accidents, but one was a motorcycle accident where the rider was wearing a helmet, but he was sideswiped by a pickup truck and the helmet's visor cracked and stabbed him in the eye (he lost the eye, too)...
and another guy who lost control on the ski slopes and ended up head-first against a tree trunk. He wasn't wearing a helmet.
Its not that strange.
I know a few people who work with acquired brain damaged individuals
The reasons vary.
They all sustained head injuries.
Oh, yeah, San Diego, where high temperatures have been in the high 60s to 70s for the past month. Try riding in hot weather -- high 80s to high 90s, like the NYC area has been getting. Putting a styrofoam cap on your head makes you hotter, no question.
Not enough to risk my head. Dismiss San Diego, but I don't think you can dismiss me. I've ridden all over Texas, through the summer, for 19 years as an adult - since 1993. East Texas in July and August at 2pm on blacktop roads. 30 miles to and from grad school; 100-104 degrees. Not hot enough for me to go helmet free. Buy a well ventilated helmet and pour water onto your head regularly. Keep hydrated.
Try riding in hot weather -- high 80s to high 90s, like the NYC area has been getting. Putting a styrofoam cap on your head makes you hotter, no question.
Have to disagree, if you are going more than 12 mph or so you generate a breeze so not true. It keeps the sun off your skin directly. Why do farm workers wear long sleeves and jeans when it's 100+? To keep the sun off your skin directly. It's not a flack jacket, modern helmets have vents for a reason.
If you are standing around bs-ing with a helmet then ya. Hot.
I can often find shade when I bike, the shade providing part of a helmet is irrelevant in the forested northeast.
The breeze going through your head is much stronger when not blocked by a helmet. In 90°F heat with some humidity a helmet may a sweat drenched head while without a helmet I can be mostly sweat free with a breeze. Expensive helmets ventilate better but aren't perfect.
Personaly like my climbing helmet it is situational, riding my roadbike or mountain biking I will mostly wear my helmet. riding to the store probably not. People have mentioned riders in Amsterdam- the Dutch are probably safer on a bike than walking, even they will normally wear a helmet on a skinny tire road bike.
I can often find shade when I bike, the shade providing part of a helmet is irrelevant in the forested northeast.
The breeze going through your head is much stronger when not blocked by a helmet. In 90°F heat with some humidity a helmet may a sweat drenched head while without a helmet I can be mostly sweat free with a breeze. Expensive helmets ventilate better but aren't perfect.
We don't get much shade in the desert. The helmet I use has more vents than helmet yet highly crash rated and it was less than 50 bucks.
Not enough to risk my head. Dismiss San Diego, but I don't think you can dismiss me. I've ridden all over Texas, through the summer, for 19 years as an adult - since 1993. East Texas in July and August at 2pm on blacktop roads. 30 miles to and from grad school; 100-104 degrees. Not hot enough for me to go helmet free. Buy a well ventilated helmet and pour water onto your head regularly. Keep hydrated.
Not enough to risk my head. Dismiss San Diego, but I don't think you can dismiss me. I've ridden all over Texas, through the summer, for 19 years as an adult - since 1993. East Texas in July and August at 2pm on blacktop roads. 30 miles to and from grad school; 100-104 degrees. Not hot enough for me to go helmet free. Buy a well ventilated helmet and pour water onto your head regularly. Keep hydrated.
I started in this crazy sport in 1984 at the 3rd HHH. My helmet back then was the Bell V1-Pro That was hot.
I now have the Giro Ionos. Big difference, It isn't hot anymore.
But I must say that on a few occassions I have gone without a helmet, in front of God and everybody! I felt so naked - kind of exciting. And I felt so decadent.
I was going to post this in the fashion forum but settled on posting it here. I don't know what it's like where you are, but despite the laws, I still see many people of all ages not wearing helmets while cycling.
I'm just wondering what, you think, could be the main reason for this.
I'm thinking that maybe some people just flat out don't like being told what they HAVE to do (or wear in this case)..especially when considering they've been riding without one for years....maybe they feel that it should be THEIR choice, and no-one elses.
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