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re: Do your kids wear a helmet when riding their bike?
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:18 am to SuperSaint
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:18 am to SuperSaint
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I'm 40 and have had a bike for 35+ years and have never owned a helmet
This just tells me you don't shred...
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Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:18 am to GetCocky11
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Yeah but it doesn't take much to frick up your head. Wearing a helmet is a simple thing.
How bout when im walking, should I guard against tripping?
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:20 am to DomincDecoco
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How bout when im walking, should I guard against tripping?
Quick sucking on those straws, man.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:21 am to GetCocky11
so wear a helmet. have your kids wear helmets. i dont give a frick what you do.
denominators matter.
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In 2016, 424 cyclists deaths were with riders not wearing a helmet vs 137 who wore a helmet.
denominators matter.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:21 am to Sam Quint
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so is not riding a bike. so is staying inside all day.
Right. Driving in a car can be very dangerous, and there's a reason race car drivers wear protective gear, including helmets. How many lives or severe injuries would be prevented every year if everyone wore helmets while driving in their daily lives? It would be a simple thing...
All kidding aside, I have no issue with people deciding for themselves to wear as much protective gear as they'd like...just not dictate what others must do, unless they're ready to argue where the line ought to be and how they knew to draw it there.
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of all the people i've ever known in my life, thousands probably, who rode a bike without a helmet as a kid, i know precisely zero who had a head injury from a bike fall
I knew one who dies, but it wasn't a head injury. We had an empty lot in our neighborhood that bordered a canal which ran through the entire neighborhood. This lot was quite a bit higher than the canal and was unmanaged. It had huge hills and trees and over the years had been turned into a makeshift motocross track by us local youths. It always had a few kids on it whenever kids were off school. This one day this kid was out there by himself (or just another kid, I forget) and he accidentally lost control and fell into the canal which didn't have a ton of water in it and he got stuck in the mud and drown before anyone could get to him. Within weeks they bulldozed the lot.
Cheery story for a Wednesday morning, sorry.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:23 am to GeauxTigerTM
quote:Junior has one of the same bikes Baw
But when they were little the youngest had one of those no-peddle bikes that help them learn to steer without peddling, and he had a helmet on then.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:23 am to SuperSaint
My youngest can wreck in the middle of the street with no one around her. She crashed into trash cans the other day. . Darn straight she is wearing a helmet
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:24 am to SuperSaint
Why would they not wear a helmet?
I'm not trying to make my kids "cool" I'm trying to make sure they don't harm themselves unnecessarily
I'm not trying to make my kids "cool" I'm trying to make sure they don't harm themselves unnecessarily
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:25 am to Sam Quint
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In 2016, 424 cyclists deaths were with riders not wearing a helmet vs 137 who wore a helmet.
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denominators matter.
Can you add 424 and 137 together?
According to the IIHS, in 2016, out of 561 bicycle deaths where the helmet status was confirmed, 424 of those deaths were with no helmet, making up 75.6% of those deaths.
If you're in a serious bike accident, which group would you rather be in?
This post was edited on 10/25/23 at 9:26 am
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:25 am to SuperSaint
Absolutely. I don’t want my kids ending up with a memory like mine(though, I don’t recall busting my noggin from bike riding, mostly knees and gooch, rather). All the other dorky kids wear helmets anyway, so they fit right in. I don’t think bike helmets even existed when I was a kid.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:26 am to GeauxTigerTM
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Right. Driving in a car can be very dangerous, and there's a reason race car drivers wear protective gear, including helmets. How many lives or severe injuries would be prevented every year if everyone wore helmets while driving in their daily lives? It would be a simple thing...
exactly right. the line is different for everyone, and for me, the line stops short of making my kids wear helmets on bicycles. i accept that there is a tiny fraction of a fraction of a chance that they could get hurt, but for me, the self confidence that comes with not kid gloving them outweighs the chance of the injury. but i dont let them leave the neighborhood yet, and i dont let them ride on golf carts with other kids. i have a line as well, it's just not the same as the sanctimonious "always wear a helmet" crowd.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:26 am to SuperSaint
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Junior has one of the same bikes Baw
Yeah, they're awesome!
I have some vids of him on it and he's a daredevil. It was basically the last bike he ever rode.
We live in a relatively small neighborhood and most of their friends from school don't live where biking could have been an option, so he never needed or wanted to ride.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:26 am to SuperSaint
Didn't as a kid, but now realize how fricking stupid that was. I definitely hit my head a few times jumping ramps and curbs and it could've been so much worse.
Yes, we enforce a helmet rule with our kids.
ETA:
I'll caveat this that we also aren't helicopter parents. Places like the beach on beach cruisers we don't really enforce, even though we should.
But if they peel out of our driveway to ride their bikes on the road a couple miles to their friends' houses, they better wear a helmet. I'm worried about cars, not their cycling skills.
Yes, we enforce a helmet rule with our kids.
ETA:
I'll caveat this that we also aren't helicopter parents. Places like the beach on beach cruisers we don't really enforce, even though we should.
But if they peel out of our driveway to ride their bikes on the road a couple miles to their friends' houses, they better wear a helmet. I'm worried about cars, not their cycling skills.
This post was edited on 10/25/23 at 9:34 am
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:26 am to GetCocky11
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Can you add 424 and 137 together?
ok, now divide that by the number of people who rode bikes in 2016 and get back with me.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:27 am to Sam Quint
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the chances of a serious head injury from a bike fall are negligibly small.
This is just untrue.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:28 am to SuperOcean
quote:I feel like when I have a little girl I'd probably be more pro helmet with her. But I have a 3 and 1 year old boys that are already knot heads.... I'm also not anti helmet. I'm pretty indifferent and curious how others feel about it
My youngest can wreck in the middle of the street with no one around her. She crashed into trash cans the other day. . Darn straight she is wearing a helmet
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:29 am to Sam Quint
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ok, now divide that by the number of people who rode bikes in 2016 and get back with me.
So, just because the chance of actually being in an accident are small, you won't put a $20 piece of protective gear on your child's head?
Father of the year, you are
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:29 am to CatfishJohn
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This is just untrue.
it is absolutely true. the math is very simple.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:31 am to GetCocky11
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So, just because the chance of actually being in an accident are small, you won't put a $20 piece of protective gear on your child's head? Father of the year, you are
do you have them wear helmets in the car? if not, you must be a pretty shitty father, by your standard.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:32 am to Sam Quint
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Can you add 424 and 137 together?
ok, now divide that by the number of people who rode bikes in 2016 and get back with me.
Death isn't the only serious head injury. I have a buddy from college that got hit by a car on his way to class on a bike and will always be fricked up from a TBI. Random crazy mood swings (even crying for no reason) and has trouble using his left hand.
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