(17-07-13, 08:33 AM)Jazz999 link Wrote: Personally I would always want to wear one. As a front line medic in the UK I've seen that they save lives over and over again. That's at low speed too - diesel on a junction that makes your front end break away, over you go and hit your head on the kerb & lights out.
Any speed of impact of your skull on a hard surface is enough to cause an irreversible bleed on your brain so if u can absorb that impact energy with a lid then u have to be better off.
In higher speed crashes you're just as likely to die from a severe chest injury, aortic rupture or other severe haemorrhage as you are a brain injury.
I guess it's personal choice again, and yes I'm paid to attend such tragic incidents but I don't want to see a fellow human/biker perish over something simple like a lid. Over years of service it takes its toll and no amount of wages will make it easier.

(17-07-13, 08:46 AM)simonm link Wrote: [quote author=Jazz999 link=topic=8371.msg88282#msg88282 date=1374046434]
Personally I would always want to wear one. As a front line medic in the UK I've seen that they save lives over and over again. That's at low speed too - diesel on a junction that makes your front end break away, over you go and hit your head on the kerb & lights out.
Any speed of impact of your skull on a hard surface is enough to cause an irreversible bleed on your brain so if u can absorb that impact energy with a lid then u have to be better off.
In higher speed crashes you're just as likely to die from a severe chest injury, aortic rupture or other severe haemorrhage as you are a brain injury.
I guess it's personal choice again, and yes I'm paid to attend such tragic incidents but I don't want to see a fellow human/biker perish over something simple like a lid. Over years of service it takes its toll and no amount of wages will make it easier.

(18-07-13, 07:14 AM)pitternator link Wrote: I always laff when this " discussion" comes up ( yet again) on the forum... :rolleyes

1. wtf are we even talking about it for as its law- end of !... its never going to change

2. yes you should have the right to " do what you want" , but get real , this is a modern society where we all have to live together , so just obey the law and get on with riding yer bike .

3. helmet law has been in now what , 40 yrs...so the ones who can remember the " good old days" are probably septogenarian and probably are rambling while pissing themselves involuntarily ...

4. we have no right to expect emergency services to clean up our mess just because  we selfishly feel we are being oppressed. Theres enough fecking problems in the world without us adding to them over some wildly outdated semantic bullshit about being "free"

Just my opinion like....

Quote:3. helmet law has been in now what , 40 yrs...so the ones who can remember the " good old days" are probably septogenarian and probably are rambling while pissing themselves involuntarily ...