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re: Do your kids wear a helmet when riding their bike?
Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:29 am to CatfishJohn
Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:29 am to CatfishJohn
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Remember when it was nerdy and "gay" to wear helmets skiing and snowboarding and now you'll get shamed off the mountain if you don't?
It still is. Helmets have not reduced the amount of head injuries in recreational skiing. Still just wear my beanie and sunglasses.
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Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:30 am to lsu777
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my boys ride bmx bikes and ride just around the neighborhood. They do not wear helments....trying not to raise pussies. If they were riding a rode bike in a race, thats different. Trail riding...again different
i simply told her i was trying to raise strong boys who become strong men. She finally backed off.
This post was edited on 10/25/23 at 10:34 am
Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:31 am to TheWiz
Is this true? I was unaware...
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Helmets and Hand Signals
Louisiana law requires a bicycle operator or passenger that is under the age of 12 years old to wear a bike helmet while riding a bike.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:33 am to CatfishJohn
quote:When I was 4 we had an old beat up pick up truck. I would stand up on the passenger side when my mom drove me around.
I used to not wear a seatbelt in the rear facing 3rd row of the station wagon every day.
One time i was leaning on the door and it "randomly" opened and I fell out. Luckily my Mom was slowing down at a red light so we were going pretty slow.
To add to just how 80s that story is, my 2 cousins were sitting in the back of the truck and were the first to get to me after I fell out of the truck.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:45 am to GetCocky11
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I've never known anyone who was killed by not wearing a seatbelt but it still happens all the time.
In 2016, 424 cyclists deaths were with riders not wearing a helmet vs 137 who wore a helmet.
I've known both. A close friend of my son's was thrown out of their SUV and killed when they were 12, 25 years ago. He was sleeping in the back seat and didn't have on his seat belt. His head hit the concrete.
My son was very much the daredevil with his friends. One of his friends wasn't wearing a helmet and had a very serious head injury when they were 5th graders. He ended up OK, but he was lucky. I've known a lot of cyclist friends who had bad wrecks. They had a lot of injuries, but no deaths because of their helmets. Several of them cracked their helmets. What if that had been their head instead?
So that's how many deaths. That doesn't include head injuries where they didn't die. I'm all about freedoms, but this is an easy fix to something with the potential to seriously change your child's life or end it. I grew up in the 60s and 70s without a helmet, but I'm in favor of them now.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:48 am to SuperSaint
Yep. It's a minor inconvenience. While I also agree that it only protects against a limited range of accidents, I have a friend who had such an accident. He had massive brain damage. He has spent the last 13 years in a neurological rehab nursing home and will likely spend the rest of his life there.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:48 am to LaLadyinTx
Bikes no.... skateboards, or any motorized vehicle like a go cart or dirt bike yes.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:49 am to TheWiz
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Most neighborhood speed limits are 20. I bet people are going at least 25 and distracted by something. Bicycles do not belong on the sidewalk.
speak for your neighborhood. in my neighborhood about the only action the side walks get are from kids riding their bikes.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 11:02 am to SuperSaint
Nope, my dad would ride 3 of us kids down the road on his "pedal" bike w/o helmets and once I rode bikes myself never had a helmet, stupid yuppie shite to wear one even in the woods.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 11:09 am to Sam Quint
quote:My kids are in 7th grade. they know one. It's the 15 year old brother of one of my kids' good friends in the same grade as them. And that happened 2 months ago on the same path my boys ride almost daily.
so is not riding a bike. so is staying inside all day.
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
Posted on 10/25/23 at 11:18 am to SuperSaint
This was a tough dilemma for me as a parent. I never wore one. Then by the time I had kids you got pumped with service messages about kids having to wear helmets etc. They were always so awkward to put on a kid on the first place and never fit and stay on. The helmet becomes a weight holding your kids head down or ends up wrapped around their neck while they are riding causing more danger. I choose to look another way but my kids ended up not being big bike riders.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 12:21 pm to SuperSaint
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I'm 40
gross
Yes, my offspring are required to wear helmets on a bike, ATV and skiing. Its a very simple thing.
Yes, I wear a helmet if I am biking on any road with cars, mountain biking, and while skiing.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 12:22 pm to PrettyBird
I am pretty sure that if 8 year old me in 1979 had worn a helmet while riding a bike, the only thing the helmet would have protected me from was the other laughing kids throwing rocks at me.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 12:24 pm to SuperSaint
I don’t wear one riding around the neighborhood.
My four year old does.
If I was going somewhere with higher traffic, yes.
My four year old does.
If I was going somewhere with higher traffic, yes.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 12:25 pm to SuperSaint
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I'm 40 and have had a bike for 35+ years and have never owned a helmet
You're so cool bro, you must be alpha man af
Posted on 10/25/23 at 12:28 pm to Sam Quint
Putting a helmet on your kid is not "kid gloving".
This post was edited on 10/25/23 at 12:29 pm
Posted on 10/25/23 at 12:28 pm to Tvilletiger
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They were always so awkward to put on a kid on the first place and never fit and stay on. The helmet becomes a weight holding your kids head down or ends up wrapped around their neck while they are riding causing more danger.
They make better helmets these days that are comfortable to wear, they're not heavy, and if it was ending up around their neck then it wasn't strapped on I'm the first place and wouldn't have helped anyway. How hard is it to tighten the strap after it's buckled? All of your excuses are lazy or bitchmade
Posted on 10/25/23 at 12:56 pm to SuperSaint
I never wore one and neither did my children until a colleagues grandson died because he wasn’t wearing one. Now my kids wear one all the time.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 1:20 pm to Cracker
quote:bmx is no doubt a cracker sport
Yes I was paid to wear it from sponsors
Posted on 10/25/23 at 1:22 pm to LSUGrad9295
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I am pretty sure that if 8 year old me in 1979 had worn a helmet while riding a bike, the only thing the helmet would have protected me from was the other laughing kids throwing rocks at me.
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