How often do you wear your helmet?

[ANAO]

Nice article, nicer picture:

http://www.bicycling.com/rides/safet...GE_Bicycling__

[guido]

100%

[redir]

Only when I have to which means bike races or organized rides. Essentially I wear one when I ride with others but not when I go solo. I always wear one mountain biking too.

[AngryScientist]

generally speaking, if i have the rest of the roadie costume on: bibs and jersey, i wear a helmet. in street clothes, no helmet.

[druptight]

Personally, 100%. No judgement though, and if I were this guy, I would have absolutely laid into DUI guy who was questioning my helmet choice.

[thwart]

100%.

Google frontal lobe syndrome.

[JAGI410]

95%. The 5% I don't is when I'm test riding newly built bikes in the shop parking lot. If I'm testing my own bikes at home I will wear a helmet in my own driveway.

[tumbler]

99%. I occasionally go without when I take the Brompton 3 blocks over to get my hair cut (usually mid-day, neighborhood type traffic, and a bike lane, so I don't worry too much). Pretty much anything else is helmeted.

[RFC]

Always. It has save my head many times in too many wrecks.

[witcombusa]

mtb use, fixed gear, organized rides that require it.
the other 95% I'm doing
rides from my home, never.

[CSKeller]

I wear my helmets anytime I'm on my bicycles or motorcycle.

My face ain't pretty but I still value the grey matter inside. I don't want to end up a vegetable in a freak fall while riding so I wear my helmet to help prevent that.

It's all about enjoying your life while mitigating risks. You don't work on electricity while standing in water, you don't smoke when the mountains of evidence say it's hazardous to your health.

It is crazy to see the hundred of motorcycles here that refuse to wear a helmet, even good friends. I don't judge...just pray that they stay safe...

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/pe...facts/bicycles

[berserk87]

Every ride.

I have smashed 3 of them due to crashes over the years. Two while racing and one while just lallygagging around in a park after a strong rain. There was a lot of debris on the road (leaves, twigs) and I hit something that made my front wheel go sideways. Next thing I knew, I was skidding on pavement on my face. The front of my helmet was crushed and I had a front tooth ground down a bit, but it could have been worse.

My niece (who is 20) crashed on her bike this weekend. She split her forehead open and had to have stitches. No helmet, of course.

[bicycletricycle]

I don't have a helmet

[FlashUNC]

All the time sadly. There may be some rare instances where I'm not, but those are exceedingly rare.

[CSKeller]

You may have seen this study that says drivers give cyclists without helmets more passing room.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...s-to-cyclists/

http://www.bhsi.org/walkerstudy.htm