Help Getting Daughter to wear Helmet

[smurfalicious]

He's stubborn as a MULE I tell you. He won't wear a helmet when snowboarding either. I'll keep working on him. He keeps telling me that the chance of falling on your head in a way that a helmet will actually help is minimal. I ALWAYS wear a helmet.

Yeah I'd stop riding with him. I don't want to be the one who has to frantically ride into cell coverage to call 911 to haul someone's butt out! I can sacrifice a jersey to stop bleeding, but uh, I don't want to be the first responder to a head injury.

I wish I still had the helmet I cracked. SadieKate can tell you all about my poorly executed showing off that did that. Fortunately the helmet cracked, not my skull, and only my pride was injured. I rode home humbled and humiliated, not in a helicopter. Oh why did she have to bring the hot racer boys? I would have been so mild mannered without them there.

[OakLeaf]

+1 on not riding with him. I admit I don't know from mountain bikes, but I don't think the physics are any different from road bikes - and road bikes have a habit of throwing a person violently on their head.

I'm alive today (or at least rational) because of a helmet I was wearing when I stuck a pedal in a corner - as it was, I was out cold for 25 minutes. A couple of years ago I had a brain f*rt and rode off the edge of a bike path. Even though I was barely scraped and not even bruised, my head smacked the pavement pretty hard - enough that I had a headache the next day - and it would've been a significant TBI if I'd been bareheaded. It could as easily have been a log or a rock on an unpaved surface, or a paved path a MTBer would use to get to the trail.

[Becky]

Ditto what the others say about not riding with him. I'm here today b/c I was wearing my helmet when I went head-first into a tree while mountain biking. It's not just falls that warrant helmet wearing, but collisions too.

[obie]

One guy I know was persuaded at the bike shop. Girlfriend asked him to get a helmet, he said no, bike shop employee asked him to put one on for just a second - wanted to show him something. Boyfriend puts on the helmet. Shop worker takes hammer (or other tool), whacks him on head. Then says, "okay, now let's do that without the helmet."

Boyfriend bought the helmet!

[mimitabby]

One guy I know was persuaded at the bike shop. Girlfriend asked him to get a helmet, he said no, bike shop employee asked him to put one on for just a second - wanted to show him something. Boyfriend puts on the helmet. Shop worker takes hammer (or other tool), whacks him on head. Then says, "okay, now let's do that without the helmet."

Boyfriend bought the helmet!

wow, this is fantastic!!!!

[OakLeaf]

that's funny, but I hope they didn't sell him that particular helmet...

[mimitabby]

that's funny, but I hope they didn't sell him that particular helmet...

I'll bet they have demo helmets.