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Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 02:06:37 No.974663 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>974722 >>974774 >>974784 >>974991 >>975930 >>976591 >>978157

>Good situational awareness/Good Bike handling skills - No need for a helmet unless you race or group ride.

>ADD/Poor motor skills - Please use a foam hat at all times. Even when youre taking a shit or mowing the lawn.

It's that simple, folks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 04:19:44 No.974722 Report

Quoted By: >>974724 >>974745

>>974663

No amount of situational awareness will help you when you're at a entering a blind intersection and a driver decides to blast by a stop sign or when someone decides to open their doors while you're going 20+ mph. :')

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 04:28:55 No.974724 Report

Quoted By: >>974728

>>974722
Neither will any foam hat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 04:38:05 No.974728 Report

Quoted By: >>974745

>>974724
Prove it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 05:51:14 No.974745 Report

Quoted By: >>974747

>>974722
>Implying the location from which car doors open is completely unpredictable
That's exactly the type of collision which a modicum of situational awareness can completely obviate.

>>974728
You first.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 05:57:07 No.974747 Report

Quoted By: >>974754 >>975925

>>974745
>That's exactly the type of collision which a modicum of situational awareness can completely obviate.

This is actually a great point never taken to consideration by anyone. Like it was impossible to avoid most stupid crashes. The biggest danger out of your control are cars coming from behind.

If you get flattened in an intersection, too bad buddy, you should never assume that cars will see you, because when push comes to shove, in a bike car collision a bike will always lose.

I wear a helmet at all times tho.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 06:31:19 No.974754 Report

Quoted By: >>974755 >>974783

>>974747
I think we can agree if you wear a neon yellow safety vest then you don't have to wear a helmet. Otherwise, wear a helmet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 06:32:30 No.974755 Report

Quoted By: >>974961

>>974754
You should be wearing full motorcycle safety gear in yellow and orange fluo at all times, including while you sleep. You might fall out of bed and die from a head or spinal injury, after all!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 07:34:17 No.974774 Report

Quoted By: >>974838

>>974663
why does people wearing helmets trigger you so?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 08:19:18 No.974783 Report

Quoted By: >>974836

>>974754
No we can't. I think the neon color thing is the most ridiculous thing. It does not protect you an the added visibility it gives you is pathetic in practice.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 08:19:28 No.974784 Report

Quoted By:

>>974663
> yet another helmet shitposting thread

saged and downgoated

Another helmet shitposting thread

Another helmet shitposting thread Fri 01 Jul 2016 13:36:25 No.974836 Report

Quoted By: >>974999

>>974783
> the added visibility it gives you is pathetic in practice
What did he meme by this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 14:27:00 No.974838 Report

Quoted By:

>>974774
i think helmetwearing people are more triggered by nonhelmeters

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 15:20:15 No.974852 Report

Quoted By: >>974893 >>974946 >>976580

If you'd ever talked to anyone with a head injury, you'd wear a helmet.

A helmet won't stop you from breaking a wrist or whatever, but head impact can make you useless for the rest of your life.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 17:36:24 No.974893 Report

Quoted By:

>>974852
No, I fucking would not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 21:19:48 No.974946 Report

Quoted By: >>975079

>>974852
Agreed, come off my mountain bike at the weekend. Smashed my head on a rock, no probs though as I was wearing my helmet. Would rather be with it than without!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 22:14:17 No.974960 Report

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ATGATT

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 22:15:02 No.974961 Report

Quoted By: >>974963

>>974755
I really hope you're not serious. Sure in every ride the chances of getting hit our very low, and sure the odd are you'll never need a helmet in your life. But in the rare chance it does you will be so glad that you did. wearing a goofy helmet is much better then having you skull smashed in. Cycling in itself is dangerous, not wearing a helmet is foolish. Try getting a cool looking helmet like a catlike mixino or something

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 22:15:45 No.974963 Report

Quoted By: >>975926

>>974961
> Cycling in itself is dangerous
No, it is not

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 01:33:33 No.974991 Report

Quoted By:

>>974663
Why do you or anyone else who posts threads like this even care?

If you don't like bike helmets, THEN DON'T WEAR ONE.

If you like bike helmets, THEN WEAR ONE.

In either case: DON'T POST THREADS ABOUT IT ANYMORE, they are pointless!

/thread

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 01:49:23 No.974999 Report

Quoted By: >>976015 >>976038

>>974836
Drivers aren't any more likely to look up from their iphone and notice you if you're covered in fluoshit. Same goes for having a billion lumen blinky lamp desu

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 06:23:21 No.975079 Report

Quoted By:

>>974946
>I ride in a high-risk way and the potential harm of an inevitable mishap was mitigated by safety gear
Yeah that's great, but it's not representative of how most people ride.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 00:29:06 No.975925 Report

Quoted By:

>>974747
That must be a bitch in the shower

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 00:31:32 No.975926 Report

Quoted By:

>>974963
It is if you're having fun

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 00:46:44 No.975930 Report

Quoted By: >>975935

>>974663
Is the helmet/not helmet thing like the cut/uncut thing at /fit/?

hank trill

hank trill Mon 04 Jul 2016 00:53:35 No.975935 Report

Quoted By:

>>975930
You're autistic
>>975930

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 01:10:12 No.975941 Report

Quoted By:

All these helmet threads must be some sort of bait attempt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 05:03:23 No.976015 Report

Quoted By: >>976062

>>974999
Lamps are different, especially in darkness. You can't really compare fluoshit and a photoncannon, because with a cannon, you are actually producing the visibility yourself and don't rely on ther peoples lights like you do with reflectors and such.

Fluoshit<reflectors<photoncannon in terms of visibility.

Of course a lamp won't save you or prevent a car from flattening you in an intersection, but proper lighting is sure as heck much more useful than any bright colors [spoiler:lit]in darkness[/spoiler:lit]

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 06:12:44 No.976038 Report

Quoted By: >>976060

>>974999
couldn't hurt

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 08:27:48 No.976060 Report

Quoted By:

>>976038
Why stop there?

Why not wear something like pic related for maximum visibility?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 08:31:40 No.976062 Report

Quoted By:

>>976015
Yeah, I didn't mean to say that lamps are useless, but the cunts who have a fucking discotheque blasting light directly into people's eyes aren't really doing themselves much good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 15:09:15 No.976165 Report

Quoted By: >>976555

Situational awareness is a constant vigilance thing. It only takes one deep pothole, expansion joint, or blowout at 20 mph to turn you into a vegetable. Why not take precautions?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 15:17:03 No.976171 Report

Quoted By: >>976175

came to /n/ when it first turned to the transportation board. one of the first posts were about whether or not helmets did anything. glad to see coming back here, 7 or so years later, that you fags are still arguing about it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 15:28:46 No.976175 Report

Quoted By: >>976186

>>976171
You could say the same about every other board

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 16:01:30 No.976186 Report

Quoted By: >>976199

>>976175
I've never seen /v/ arguing over bike helmets.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 16:40:45 No.976199 Report

Quoted By:

>>976186
You know what I meant

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 18:20:47 No.976251 Report

Quoted By: >>976258 >>976447

I dont wear my helmet because I can't fit my headphones under it.

Rate

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Jul 2016 18:32:43 No.976258 Report

Quoted By:

>>976251
get earbuds / 10

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2016 04:55:05 No.976447 Report

Quoted By:

>>976251

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2016 13:37:33 No.976555 Report

Quoted By:

>>976165
If you can't avoid serious injury in a 20 m/h crash without any safety equipment, you have no business riding a bicycle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2016 15:34:30 No.976580 Report

Quoted By: >>976689 >>976738 >>976739

>>974852
Motorcycle helmets actually protect you and I'd be in agreement, but those featherweight shitty little foam helmets for cyclists are near useless. There have been studies (heck, you don't need studies to prove it, laws of physics are enough) that demonstrate that a bicycle helmet is of absolutely no use past 20km/h.

If anything helmets probably work as a placebo and make cyclists take more risk because they have the illusion of being protected.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2016 16:08:22 No.976591 Report

Quoted By:

>>974663
The way I understand your post,
you wear your helmet every time you don't feel psychophysically 100%.

Correct me if I got that wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2016 20:47:33 No.976689 Report

Quoted By:

>>976580
As if half the fat fucks on this board are going over 20km/h.

I keep seeing this shit on this board, where people talk about these numbers as if they are doing it at any time other than bombing down a hill, but realistically, even if a car hits you, it's not hitting your head at 50 mph.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2016 22:45:34 No.976738 Report

Quoted By:

>>976580
My shitty little faom helmet had a jagged rock the size of a golf ball embedded in the side after a fall i took when i was 16. Broken collar bone and a completely cut open knee cap were my remaining injuries.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2016 22:47:49 No.976739 Report

Quoted By: >>978135

>>976580
So clearly the answer is to legislate that all cyclists should wear full helmets, equivalent to motorcyclists.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Jul 2016 08:19:10 No.978135 Report

Quoted By:

>>976739
Why just cyclists?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 09 Jul 2016 09:11:27 No.978157 Report

Quoted By: >>978303 >>978306

>>974663
Bad goy

You MUST buy at least 5 helmets. Riding a bicycle is very dangerous. Remember the more expensive, the more magic they contain. 200 shekels should be enough to protect you from a semi running over your head

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Jul 2016 18:37:39 No.978296 Report

Quoted By:

If you want to be an idiot, why should I stop you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Jul 2016 18:45:16 No.978303 Report

Quoted By:

>>978157
Poorfag detected

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Jul 2016 18:46:30 No.978306 Report

Quoted By:

>>978157
>Remember the more expensive, the more magic they contain.
If by 'magic' you mean "inexplicably making a piece of sitting on your had more comfortable" then yes, this statement is true.

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