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Originally Posted by Bob.Kerns
I wear a helmet if I'm going to be sharing the environment intermittently with cars.
I do not wear a helmet if I'll be sharing it with shopping carts.
It's perfectly possible to fall and hit your head on the corner of a shelf and do serious damage, or suffer brain damage from a bad fall onto a store floor.
But I draw my risk threshold between these two points. Cars are dangerous and unpredictable. I know of ZERO bicycle brain-damage events that did not involve an automobile. And zero of any type in stores.
Not a statistically valid sample, but consistent with my decision to draw the line between there.
I find helmets to cause more problems than they solve, in places such as stores, due to their impact on visibility. Not a large impact; I did wear them in stores for a long time, but enough to annoy, as situation awareness is key in preventing not just accidents, but also events that might annoy others.
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Well said, Bob
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