Full Face Helmet

[NeilP]

I see where you are coming from, and fromyour perspective it makes sense,but
I fly the local air ambulance, and from things i have seen and been told by 2x medics and a doctor I fly with regularly, the cheap ones ARE actually worse than useless, expensive ones not much better. One of the doctors is a regular touring cyclist, and he won't wear one.


I am now 42 years old, and have been riding bikes and motorcycles around the farm since I was old enough to ride and kivk over a kickstart. Many spills and falls in that time and it is always, ( as you found) arms hands and legs that take it most of the time.

Nothing is 100% safe and never will be and this constant nanny state over protectiveness interfering is turning younger people in to people scared of their own shadow

As soon as one level of protection becomes the norm, and eventually the law then those that are accustomed to it take it too the next level..... Then that becomes the norm... Till the next generation comes along

 

[MattyCiii]

I wear a modular (flip face) helmet the minute it's cool enough to do it without my head overheating. I like the eye & ear protection from the cold. The flip-up piece is great for low winter sun, I can flip it up as a make shift visor waiting at a traffic light. Best $100 I ever spent. 3 lbs, looks goofy as hell... but I don't care.

 

[potatorage]

I'm just curious: is it inconvenient to have a helmet? For example, where would you put it when you needed to go to the store, etc?

 

[amberwolf]

I take mine in with me, but I could easily lock it in one of my cargo pods, as long as I don't already have groceries or whatever in there.

 

[NeilP]

I'm just curious: is it inconvenient to have a helmet? For example, where would you put it when you needed to go to the store, etc?

I find it is, yes very inconvenient.
I bought a Casco Warp III, a bloody expensive track helmet, used it for about 4 months, but just found it far too much of a pain. Leave it on the bike and you risk someone stealing it, or it rains and fills with water, or you have to carry it with you while walking around the shops or whatever.
The visor broke, when one day when I had it locked to the bike, and the bike fell or was knocked over. New visor alone was over $200 US dollar, and with no visor the rain protection was lost. It just becomes more hassle, one more thing to worry about.

 

[Ykick]

Coming from the motorcycle world 3/4- full face Motorcycle helmets have always been notorious collarbone (clavical) breakers.

I don't care for or support the "criminality" of helmet laws but the right helmet for the right situation can be a good piece of safety gear to use. Trouble is, one size doesn't fit all heads or situations.

Arm yourself with scientific knowledge and make an informed decision that's best for you......

 

[dogman dan]

Hmmm, didn't he pretty much say he was wearing the thing for his own comfort?

I find it kinda nice too, when it gets cold enough to wear my snowboard helmet with it's warm earflaps. Suddenly I can hear cars coming better at 30mph. Above 20mph, my ears create quite a bit of wind noise. Old and deaf from listening to saws and nail guns for 30 years is no help, so likely I am impaired more by the wind in my ears than I used to be.

Hearing them coming is nice on a bike. On a motorcycle you just never get passed. Moped is the worst, can't hear em and still getting passed all day.

Wear a helmet or not, your choice. Helmet laws for adults ARE stupid. But it's tested and true that I need one. I've dinged or crushed a few over the years. Stupid rider is smart to wear one? Smart rider needs one much less? I dunno, I just know I wear out helmets grinding em on the ground.

 

[V_Mark]

I'm just curious: is it inconvenient to have a helmet? For example, where would you put it when you needed to go to the store, etc?

I have a regular helmet and I just lock it up with my bike. Just before closing the U-Lock, put the straps through. A theif isn't going to cut the straps, steal the helmet, and then take the time to fix it. I've been doing this for years and have never had a problem. A cable lock could probably fit right through a hole in the helmet.

In the case that I want to bring my helmet in, I am often wearing a backpack so I just attach it through one of the straps and it hangs behind me and slightly to the side, completely out of the way.

 

[Lemlux]

In 1966 I was winter riding a mc in the Boston Area with a rider. At an intersection s driver going the other direction suddenly turned left without a signal before I could get out of her way.

At the time (before helmet laws) I was wearing my helmet only for temperature protection reasons.

The collision caused me to fly through the cars windshield from the outside in (after my right leg's quads slowed me down with a massive hematoma which kept me from walking for a couple of months - I still have a big dimple in my quads from part of the muscle that never regenerated).

In any event, the bubble on the front of my vintage helmet broke and cut up my face from about 1" outside my right eye down through my mouth to the middle of my chin. My face was spread open enough that a first responder cop exclaimed; "My god son, you've lost your lips!" Then a Mass General ER nurse grabbed her mouth and shrieked as I was wheeled into a room where my face was closed up with 152 stitches.

Even though the bubble cut me I figure there was a net benefit from wearing the helmet because the forehead area of the helmet was pretty gouged up.

 

[veloman]

I had a bike helmet stolen at the community college. It was hooked (not locked) to my handlebars. With a motorcycle helmet, it would be hard to lock. I would need to faster a hook on it to put my ulock through it. Maybe a thin cable loop on the back or something. Carrying it around would kind of suck.

 

[Lemlux]

I currently lock up with a 16' long 3/8" Masterlock cable that goes through everything removable, including the opening in my Thudbuster LT seatpost. The cable is long enough that it will be able to lock by BOB trailer after I cut and drill prepare rear axle mounted steel bars with holes to mount (a) the hub axle and (b) a set of BOB Nutz aft the hub axle to mount the trailer. I could easily slip the cable through my MC helmet strap. (Current MC helmet is only about 13 years old)

 

[Eascen]

After having been in a few crashes, if I'm going over 35 I want as much protection as I can get. When I see people biking without helmets, riding around traffic it just makes me sad. My state (Virginia) actually requires eye protection and gloves for motorcycles, simply because flying debris can easily distract you and cause a crash... Most of the time when I'm riding my non powered bicycle, my biggest fear is people passing me when I'm going fast (above 30) in traffic, simply because if anything goes wrong and I fall, there's a good chance I'll get hit. At least on a 'moped' they're stuck behind me. Also, crashes frocking hurt, so yeah I'm going to put on as much protection as I can when I'm not actually having to pedal...

 

[dogman dan]

Amazing a fairly cheap bike helmet got stolen anywhere. Used, they go for a couple bucks in a thrift store, and still don't sell.

A full face motorcycle helmet makes a dandy shopping basket to me. Or it rides in the cart if buying more than a headfull. A good dot hemet might hock for enough to bother with stealing it.

 

[veloman]

Yeh, it was a $15 one I got at a bike swap. I had electrical taped a visor on it too....

My replacement was a $7 one at Goodwill. I lock the straps on it most of the time now.

 

[TiagoSantos]

I started wearing my old BMX helmet (skateboarding type helmet) a month ago, but at anything over 30km/h, and with it being as cold and rainy as it has been around here, I knew I needed some eye protection. So lately I've been riding with my snowboarding helmet and goggles I look like an idiot, but it keeps me dry and warm, love it.

 

[dumbass]

When you consider what you have invested in your ebike or lets just say your batteries the helmet is a cheap peace of equipent. And a lot easier to carry with you then your battey pack tht likely cost you 5 to 10 time as much. I never use my ebike for going to the store and with the cycle it has a storage (trunk) that I put the helmet in.

Bob

 

[MattyCiii]

I hook my motorcycle helmet to the left hand grip via its chin straps. Then I walk the bike into the store and use it as my grocery cart. I've done this in dozens of grocery stores and a couple of Walmarts.

One of the many great benefits of this is - since I use my side basket as shopping cart - I never accidentally buy more than I can haul.

 

[amberwolf]

Used to be able to do that around here with the original version of DayGlo Avenger, as just a bicycle with baskets on all corners, but then jackass kids started riding their BMXs inside the stores, causing all bicycles or anything except shopping carts to be banned from them.

Even in places that knew me well they suddenly treated me like dirt for doing what I had done for years--walk the bike in the door to shop with it as my cart.

Oh, well, I couldn't do it with CrazyBike2, anyway. :lol: And I have little fear of buying more than it can carry!

 

[geeeyejo1]

With winter here and my new faster commuting bike pending - I picked up a pretty cool snowboard/ski helmet for $29 at Marshalls - covers the ears and seems very protective - coupled with a set of ski googles, thinking I'm ready for what Winter throws at me...

 

[dogman dan]

Ski goggles are great, but I found the dorky lab safety glasses work almost as well for keeping the wind off the eyes and forehead when combined with the snowboard helmet.

You know, the kind of large ones that fit over glasses too. Not the gomer goggles, these just look like slightly oversize sunglasses with no tint. No tint for night is nice.

 

[rjoe]

I got one of these ones mentioned by the OP. I love it -- super cheap and comfortable.

Here's hoping I never actually need it.

 

[Cresh]

Just putting this here because it happened in my area along my commute. Not trying to make a statement about wearing a helmet or not, but this is amazing...

http://www.arlnow.com/2012/11/27/bicyclist-survives-after-dump-truck-rolls-over-his-head/


A man is lucky to be alive after a dump truck ran over his head in the Ballston area over the weekend.

The incident happened around 2:15 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24. According to police, the cyclist was stopped at a temporary red light next to a construction site on Quincy Street near Wilson Boulevard, when an unoccupied dump truck started rolling south on Quincy and struck him.
The man was knocked to the ground and one of the truck’s tires ran over his head, said Arlington County Police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck. The man was wearing a helmet at the time and the helmet likely saved his life. He was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital’s trauma center with non-life-threatening injuries, Sternbeck said.
Immediately after the incident the driver of the dump truck, who had left it running and unattended next to the construction site, ran it down and managed to stop it from rolling further, according to Sternbeck. Occupational safety officials responded to the scene, inspected the truck and found multiple safety violations, he said.
Citations were issued and the truck was “taken out of service.” No word on whether any other charges are pending.

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[e-beach]

Carrying it around would kind of suck.

Not always that bad. In my motorcycle years (15 straight without a 4 wheel vehicle) I would normally just lock it to my motorcycle via the metal loops that the straps go through. Never had one stolen. Sometimes it would be faster to just carry it like a purse and put a few quick items in it while shopping.

A good padlock to lock it to your bike will keep most thief's from bothering with it. They aren't carrying around bolt cutters to steal a helmet.

 

[Farfle]

My e moto is super light, so it has a rotor lock that I loop around the helmet chin thru the visor hole

 

[Ypedal]

http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=44770

I love my Giro ( super light, keeps wind out of ears and keeps my head dry in the rain )

I keep it on when i walk into stores, banks etc for quick visits, freaks people out but i dont care, i feel cozy in there..