My 10 year old nephew and his seven year old sister have decided that it's "uncool" to wear a bike helmet. I need pictures, nasty pics. I need to scare the **** out of them. Help me out.

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You never would have caught me wearing one!!!

But like all double standards, I make my 6 year old wear one.

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1982 380SL
1978 450 SEL 6.9 euro restoration at 63% and climbing
1987 300 D
2005 CDI European Delivery
2006 CDI Handed down to daughter
2007 GL CDI. Wifes

You will find all you want and more at

ogrish.com.

People are regularly putting up bicycle accident pictures. You DO NOT want them looking over your shoulder while you wade through there looking for pictures to show them.

I had a recent pic of me with my bicycle but can't seem to find it right now. I'm back to riding about an hour a day (road bike with helmet). Bicycle riding is the one thing I have found in life that I get just as much enjoyment out of as I did 35 years ago. No matter how long I go without riding I can get on and ride for hours at a time and thoroughly enjoy it.

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Jim

I'm a life long cycling fanatic and literally would not be typing this if it were not for a helmet. Tell your sister the helmet choice is, like wearing a seatbelt, not negotiable. Either the kids can make safe choices for themselves or she can make them for them. If they can't choose safely, then they can't ride period. Besides, all the cool kids are doing it.

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Michael

1988 300 SL (5 Speed)
1994 E320 Wagon
1997 C230

Those pics are too nasty even for me!

How the hell did I survive my childhood?

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

When I was seventeen I was riding my bike in a little time trial I used to do. A car pulled out in front of me, hitting me broadside on the bike. I flipped over the hood and landed almost behind the guy. He took off and was never found.

The helmet I was wearing flew off my head before I landed on the ground. Luckily, I didn't land on my head. I broke both my leg and ankle and my bike was ruined.

Turned out my helmet was TOO BIG for my head. It was a gift and the person told the bike store guy that I had a "big" head. I did shop for another helmet once I recovered. Size: SMALL.

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2016 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport (wife's).

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2006 Jetta TDI 135,970 miles. Sold Nov. '13.
1995 E-320 Special Edition. 220,200 miles. Sold Sept. '07.
1987 190-E 16 valve. 153,000 miles. Sold Feb. '06.
1980 300-D 225,000 miles. Donated to the National Kidney Foundation.
1980 240-D manual, 297,500 miles. Totaled by inattentive driver.

[QUOTE=engatwork]You will find all you want and more at

ogrish.com.

People are regularly putting up bicycle accident pictures. You DO NOT want them looking over your shoulder while you wade through there looking for pictures to show them.


That is a NASTY site.

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1959 Gravely LI, 1963 Gravely L8, 1973 Gravely C12
1982 380SL
1978 450 SEL 6.9 euro restoration at 63% and climbing
1987 300 D
2005 CDI European Delivery
2006 CDI Handed down to daughter
2007 GL CDI. Wifes

rotten.com has a pic of a guy that had a motorcycle accident....most of his face is gone. You can see his eyes and maybe part of his tongue. This individual is alive in the photo, and he doesn't appear to be all to pleased.

*warning* rotten.com is gross...really gross. If you are at all squeamish, do not go there! Strictly for adults - If you get nightmares, don't blame me.

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein


09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

Kuan, back when I was a kid wearing a helmet to ride a bike was unheard of. One day, when I was about ten I was coming downhill, going as fast as my Chinese-made bike could go. I was living in Cuba back then and Chinese bikes were all we could get. Now that I think about it, here in the US that is practically all we can get nowdays--Chinese made bikes.

But I digress. I was flying downhill, enjoying the cool breeze on my face. I came upon a slower rider and I tried passing him. As I did, the front wheel of my bike hit a pothole and it stopped the bike cold on its track. Immediately, Newton's Second Law of Motion (inertia) came into play. I flew over the handlebars at a speed approximately the same as my previous speed on the bike.

When I finally landed, I came down head first and hit the cold, cement sidewalk. My forehead took the full brunt of the impact. I developed one big, nasty black and blue bump, about the size of a small sugar beet.

The bump went away after a few weeks and I was no worse for the fall.

But, and this is what you can tell your nephew and niece to scare them into wearing a helmet....years later, when I was in college, I got a C- in Organic Chemistry and couldn't get into Med School. Instead, I had to go to Law School.

To this day I am certain that if I had not hit my head on that bright, sunny afternoon in the streets of Havana, I would have gotten an A in Organic Chemistry, I would have been admitted to Med School, I would have become a brilliant orthopaedic surgeon...and I would now be driving a big-ass AMG S600.

Moral of the story: Wear a bike helmet at ALL times!

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1990 300CE "Sam Spade"
1991 300CE "Beowulf" RIP (06.1991 - 10.10.2007)
1998 E320 "Orson"
2002 C320 Wagon "Molly Fox"

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My Gallery

Not in this weather!

I don't have any pictures but can offer the following.....

from 12/98

Did you know?

- head injury is leading cause of death in bicycle crashes.
- more than 40 perecent of all head injury related deaths and approx. 75% of head injuries occur among children 14 and under.

- Non-helmeted riders are 14 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than bicyclists wearing a helmet

- Bicycle helmets have been shown to reduce the risk of head injury by as much as 85% and risk of brain injury by as much as 88 percent.

- currently (remember this is dated info from 1998!) 16 states and numerous localities have enacted some form of bicycle helmet legislation

Info. copied from a card I had in my file cabinet (I'm a safety person) - info. compiled by national safkids campaign - dec. 1998......Looks like I need to update my file......

other thoughts would be to visit a hospital maybe tour a head truama center? Make the kids wear helmets. If you're an adult and choose not to wear a helmet that's your decision. I think its idiotic (as in you are an idiot if you ride a bicycle without a helmet) and would welcome the opportunity to hear reasoning/justification for not wearing a helmet while riding.




Rob M
Concord, MA

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Rob M
Norwich, VT USA
1980 240D Euro delivery 4 speed manual silver/blue
~160K miles

A good friend is an ER doc in Portland ME. Whenever a motorcyclist comes in w/o helmet the first thing he does when they are stabalized and conscious is to bring them a form for organ donation. Offering the form he says "you're a perfect candidate" or something to that effect.... Actually? He might do that even if they present with a helmet...I'm not sure....

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Rob M
Norwich, VT USA
1980 240D Euro delivery 4 speed manual silver/blue
~160K miles