Do you wear a helmet every time you ride?

[katrinag]

I choose not to wear one.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Yeah, this is one of those topics that get me a little crazy.

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That's a slippery slope but I agree with what you are saying. It would be all too easy to say "overweight people cost skinny people money" or similiar statements that are wrong on many levels.


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Arduous and unpleasant they can be. Pointless and ridiculous I think not.

 

[ducks4you]

Why should ANYBODY care about how they look in a legitimate piece of safety equipment? I sometimes do/sometimes don't wear my helmet. I know that the helmet won't save the rest of my body from injury, and that good training of your "sane" horse is the best insurance against injury. BUT,
why should ANYBODY care about how they look in a legitimate piece of safety equipment?
Wear yours.

 

[Wildsky]

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The whole insurance issue is another discussion altogether.

 

[patandchickens]

Er, just to be clear -- I think the whole civil-liberties versus legitimate public interest debate on ANY safety or health issue is a complicated can of worms I am not trying to open here... my personal view is that the line should be drawn conservatively (i.e. not too awful much should be regulated on that basis) but that there are *some* things where it should apply.

Not, IMHO, riding helmets for adults. I have no opinion on the bike helmet or motorcycle helmet issues b/c I just don't know enough about them. To me it hinges largely on how commonly there are serious preventable injuries from an activity (which is a combination of how many people spend how much time in that activity, and what the per-person-hour accident rate is).

Those of you who think wearing riding helmets is "arduous and unpleasant", either you have an unusual shaped head (rare but does exist, and can be a real obstacle for a few individual people) or far more likely just have not genuinely spent a lot of time shopping around these days

Pat

 

[Crusty McPottydoodle]

ALWAYS! My best friend's sister died when her horse was clipped by a car and she was thrown. Her helmet came off (this was back when there was only a chin strap) and she was brain dead. Her machines were turned off on my friend's 17th birthday. She left behind a 9 month old baby.

No helmet, no ride.

 

[Royd]

I can tell you that I've been in a couple of bicycle wrecks, during a race, that if I hadn't been wearing a helmet, I would either be dead, or someone would be wiping the drool off my chin.

To the person who says they teach their kid reflex falling, I say that when things fall apart, between the surprise and the physical force, keeping your head off of a rock or the road, is not likely.

 

[Royd]

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I have a neighbor who was giving me a hard time, about being fully geared up, for riding a motorcycle.... I looked at him, with his do rag and said, "There's no need to protect something, that you don't have."

 

[Rafter 7 Paint Horses]

You wanted to know the truth...
Neither DH or I wear a helmet when we ride horses.


Jean

 

[gaited horse]

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A little girl at a junior rodeo was killed by her horse I don't know if a helmet would have sved her but the next day there where a whole lot more kids ridig with halmets.