There are plenty of studies, including examples of wide scale use v wide scale not use. The helmets themselves are not designed to prevent the sort of injury you're liable to receive from cycling. They're effectively only of use if a toddler falls over, so in that respect, anyone advocating them for cyclists, actually ends up making a very much stronger case for pedestrians having to wear them. The risk of rotational injury is greater, and more prominent, as is the risk from neck injury due to the strap. The size and weight actuially increases the risk of impact...the list goes on and on. Over and above that, they increase the false perception that cycling is dangerous, which isn't supported by statistics. This then leads to more sedantary modes of travel, with an increase of associated health effects and poorer air quality.
I didn't say they had a particular problem, I said they had the same problem as anywhere else that had cyclists and trams sharing the same roads. Which they do. You're welcome.
Fancy me taking advice on brain injuries from a Neurosurgeon, rather than someone on a Hull City message board. Silly me.
Maybe not, but there is lots of evidence of tram tracks leading to accidents for cyclists in the Netherlands. Stand outside Amsterdam Centraal station for about 20 minutes and you'll probably see one happen. It's an occupational hazard of mixing narrow wheeled vehicles with tracks that are set into the highway. Please respond by DM if you wish to reply, as this has nothing to do with the matchday thread.
You didn’t say they had a particular problem and that they had the same problems as anywhere else had where cyclists and trams share the same roads? You said Amsterdam had a major problem.
So you can reply and comment on match day threads on non match day matters but I should respond by DM? Perhaps you should have directed your comments about posts which have nothing to do with match day threads to the first person who brought the subject up?
The quoted reply is best read in the voice of a whiny 14 year old with thick horn rimmed glasses and rampant acne. And halitosis.
Err nerr, the 'helmet debate' (fnaar) , this splits cyclists on cycling forums, so no chance hear or general public... Personally a helmet did not prevent me splitting a tendon in an accident when I hit some diesel a few years back, it did however stop my head having direct contact with the tarmac and reduced the whiplash. I've seen 2 cycling club members helmets split in half following accidents, you can decide yourself what would have happened to their skull / brain if not Each unto their own
I have seen a cyclist cycling down a cycle lane in London and a car pulled out from a side street right in front of her. Had she not been wearing a helmet, I doubt she’d be around today. Your decision entirely but I’m definitely of the opinion that wearing a helmet gives better protection than not wearing a helmet in the event of an accident.
