wear your helmet!

dook said:

I'm 15 and I just got a new road bike like 4 weeks ago. Two days ago i went across a round-about and car on my left didn't give-way and hit my back tyre. I wasn't wearing a helmet and i didn't have lights on my bike. I got a head injury I was taken to the hospital in a ambulence and i had to get my head glued. I was aslo forced to get a blood test to prove that i wasn't drunk. It was the first time since i got the bike that i rode it without wearing a helmet. It could of been alot worse then what it was and the people who saw it said i was lucky i wasn't run over by anouther car. Wear your helmet. Dont be an idot!

well u learned a painful lesson really glad ur ok and alive to tell us about it. How in the world can they force u to submit to a blood test? Is the moron driver going to pay for ur care and a new bike....actually they should of tested him?

i guess it just came naturally to blood test the cyclist :p

I'm 21, I'm invincable.

But heck, I still wear the helmet.

dook said:

I'm 15 and I just got a new road bike like 4 weeks ago. Two days ago i went across a round-about and car on my left didn't give-way and hit my back tyre. I wasn't wearing a helmet and i didn't have lights on my bike. I got a head injury I was taken to the hospital in a ambulence and i had to get my head glued. I was aslo forced to get a blood test to prove that i wasn't drunk. It was the first time since i got the bike that i rode it without wearing a helmet. It could of been alot worse then what it was and the people who saw it said i was lucky i wasn't run over by anouther car. Wear your helmet. Dont be an idot!

With a helmet your injuries may have been less. With lights the driver may have stopped.

I was riding in a group pretty quickly about 6 monhs ago when someone didn't call an obstacle and, being tired, I hit it and went straight to the ground head first. My helmet shattered around my frontal lobe area and I lost alot of skin but I am fine now. If I hadn't been wearing that helmet, I could have died.

[font=Comic Sans MS]I lived on my bike as a kid, we did downhill racing, ramps and played in the traffic [/font]

[font=Comic Sans MS]We fell off got knocked off and in all that time not one of us wore helmets. There were no head injuries that I can recall ever happening to any one i know in my youth.[/font]

[font=Comic Sans MS]I'm older, and hopefully a little wiser now; I wear a helmet and have on two occasions avoided serious injury by wearing a helmet. I personally know many cyclists who have similar stories, all in praise helmets.[/font]

[font='Times New Roman'][font=Comic Sans MS]We obviously had very vigilant guardian angels as kids, or the ability to tuck and roll.🙄 [/font][/font]

HowardSteele said:

[font=Arial]I lived on my bike as a kid, we did downhill racing, ramps and played in the traffic [font=Verdana]

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[font=Arial]Don't forget bombing down the path at the local "Dead Man's Curve"[/font]

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HowardSteele said:

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[font=Arial]I'm older, and hopefully a little wiser now; I wear a helmet and have on two occasions avoided serious injury by wearing a helmet.[/font][font=Times New Roman][font=Comic Sans MS] [/font][/font]

Funny how you think about things like that, once you realize that you are not invincible and will not live forever. I wonder how I survived a couple of incidents as a kid, but definitely glad I had my lid as an adult.

-GN

I was hit by a car at 60km/h while crossing the road, I wore helmet, yet I still have brain injury and the helmet I wore cracked open where I shattered the car's windshield with my head. Stitches all way down from my head to my neck.

I always wear my helmet. I even wear it to bed. Chicks dig the purple helmet.