Helmets

tunney

Post here if your helmet saved your life.

I was hit by a bus on Sunday and have cuts bruises and a cracked collar bone to prove it. I had a masive concussion and am missing hours of my life and half my helmet but I'm still alive, I woulnd't be without my helmet. Thry might not be cool but they work.

rflynnr

Sorry to hear that Tunney. Does this imperil the Austrian IM?

Lumen

Holy crap, glad you're OK, sort of.

Any more detail, or is it all a blank?

TinyExplosions

Glad you're ok mate -sounds a nasty one!

How's the bike?

ROK ON

Hope that you are ok. Get well soon.

alfalad

Glad your ok, that sounded very nasty!

Raam

Major bummer, Tunney. I hope this doesn't derail your IM ambition?

cosmic

Christ, I hope you're doing OK

I had a nasty old hit by a car last year and ended up with a cracked helmet but a perfectly fine little head. The doctor said the helmet saved me

I don't understand why people don't wear them :mad: I'd say with the new JC Decaux bikes there'll be even more helmetless cyclists Sorry if this is off topic.

Anyway, rest up and feel better

mloc123

+1

About a year and a half ago now a taxi pulled out in front of me while I was doing 40kph+.. locked the brakes and ended up about 5metres further down the road from my bike. Helmet was in two large pieces, blacked out for maybe a second at most. Without the helmet I'm sure I would have woke up in hospital, had a constant headache for at least a week after.

Caroline_ie

Sorry to hear Tunney - I hope you get better soon. All the best.

lukester

Jebus, sounds very nasty- glad you're not more seriously hurt.

Would be interested in hearing more when you get the chance. Buses scare me, have had some close shaves with them.

Ghost Rider

Jesus - that's a hell of a way to re-open the helmet debate. Hope your recovery is speedy.

tunney wrote: »

Post here if your helmet saved your life.

I was hit by a bus on Sunday and have cuts bruises and a cracked collar bone to prove it. I had a masive concussion and am missing hours of my life and half my helmet but I'm still alive, I woulnd't be without my helmet. Thry might not be cool but they work.

niceonetom

Heal well Tunney, hope all that training doesn't go to waste and that you're back out there soon. Sure you love the turbo anyway, right?:)

I promise to wear my lid even in the sunshine.

Anyone else have an image of a wrecked bus with a gaping tunney-shaped hole in it now?

interested

tunney wrote: »

Post here if your helmet saved your life.

I was hit by a bus on Sunday and have cuts bruises and a cracked collar bone to prove it. I had a masive concussion and am missing hours of my life and half my helmet but I'm still alive, I woulnd't be without my helmet. Thry might not be cool but they work.

ffs thats desperate luck - really hope the collor bone heals well and quickly for the impending IM. That must have been one of your final 'BIG' training days ?
Unreal.

Always wear a helmet these days. Had a few bad crashes when I was a kid and that was it.

Lumen

Chips Lovell

Very sorry to hear about that Tunney. Hope you're on the mend soon.

Bambaata

saved me as a child. was after picking up "Home Alone" from a friend up the road and I was cycling back home to watch it. I was holding the video tape in one hand and holding the handlebar with the other going down a hill when suddenly I hit a pothole and flew into the ditch. i hit a the point of a big rock right in the middle of the helmet. The helmet had a lovely big crack down the middle and i was 100% bar a few cuts. I've realised how important they are from then on

AstraMonti

Get well soon! I am reading your training logs and it would be really pitty if all this was wasted.

unionman

Very sorry to hear about your injuries.

Speedy recovery.

Gasco

Sorry to hear about the accident, hope the the collar bone heals for the IM.

Never wore a helmet until a helmet wearing friend had a very bad accident, broke his jaw, collarbone and both wrists - doctors said it would have been much worse without the lid. A lesson was learnt.

ednwireland

lid accident fell off cracked helmet sore neck

lidless accident cracked eyesocket 5 stitches (only time in about 20+ years been on a bike without a helmet)

similiar accidents front wheel washed out

hope everything's healing tunney

tomasrojo

Gasco wrote: »

Sorry to hear about the accident, hope the the collar bone heals for the IM.

Never wore a helmet until a helmet wearing friend had a very bad accident, broke his jaw, collarbone and both wrists - doctors said it would have been much worse without the lid. A lesson was learnt.

I don't know Tunney personally, as most of you seem to do, but I sincerely wish him (or her?) a swift recovery.

On the subject of medical personnel telling you that the injuries would have been worse without a helmet, I have to say they always seem to say this, regardless of the injury. A friend of mine was hit by a slow-moving taxi (she was cutting across a congested traffic lane on her bike to get up on the footpath when the taxi rolled forward without looking to close the gap between it and the car in front).

She suffered a slight wrist injury that required physiotherapy and needed a new wheel. The medical personnel told her that it was a damn lucky thing she'd been wearing a helmet.

When she asked me to inspect the helmet to make sure it was ok for continued wear, I found that it hadn't a scratch on it. She hadn't hit her head at all.

Sorry to hear that tunny & get well soon.

monument

tomasrojo wrote: »

On the subject of medical personnel telling you that the injuries would have been worse without a helmet, I have to say they always seem to say this, regardless of the injury.....

When she asked me to inspect the helmet to make sure it was ok for continued wear, I found that it hadn't a scratch on it. She hadn't hit her head at all.

That says quite a lot about their opinion on helmets.

TinyExplosions

A_Whole_Heap_Of_Sh!t wrote:

blah blah blah blah Helmets are great. blah blah blah saved a small child once blah blah blah you're fools if you don't wear a helmet

Same old debate, same old arguments, same old sh!t.

Personal choice people, personal choice

/rant

monument

TinyExplosions wrote: »

Same old debate, same old arguments, same old sh!t.

Personal choice people, personal choice

/rant

Indeed. And I would say most of you guys maybe should wear helmets. You lot are not the average cyclists*. Even I'd be going faster then most.

* = Sorry, been starting to think more and more this way since average cyclists have been given the name of 'pedestrians on bikes' around these parts. Been also more edging towards the idea that splitting cycling and sporting cycling is a good idea.

Raam

Please, no helmet debate. We've read it a million times.

monument

Raam wrote: »

Please, no helmet debate. We've read it a million times.

I was simply agreeing with two people.

tomasrojo

monument wrote: »

Indeed. And I would say most of you guys maybe should wear helmets. You lot are not the average cyclists*. Even I'd be going faster then most.

* = Sorry, been starting to think more and more this way since average cyclists have been given the name of 'pedestrians on bikes' around these parts. Been also more edging towards the idea that splitting cycling and sporting cycling is a good idea.

Yes, I travel everywhere by bike, about 7000km a year, and I've been doing that for about twenty years. I've had one spill in that time that resulted in me going to A&E, and all that was was a split knee that required no stitches. I've been puzzled therefore why there are so many injuries reported on this forum.

I think many of the posters here just travel much faster than I would wish to or would be capable of.

Quigs Snr

Broke a helmet the first time I ever wore one, I was planning on doing the W200 and figured I may as well get used to one if they were going to make me wear one. It was on mahon falls. Never without it since (after 20 years of refusing to wear one). Broke another one in a crash this winter (although didn't realise it at the time), there was another boardsie with me on that occassion among others, felt fine initially, but head injuries are funny things, within 15 mins I had migranes, hyper sensitivity in my left eye (everything looked luminous) and nausea. I am pretty sure it would have been worse without the helmet, looking at where the damage was.

One of our best riders had a serious crash a couple of weeks ago, one of the ones from my ras diaries which some people here followed. Like the OP, no recollection of the crash, or the day of the crash for that matter. Didn't know his own name for a while. Could have been a hit and run, we don't know. Wasn't wearing a helmet (tied to the bars on the way to a race). 11 staples in the head, lots of other damage. Lucky, lucky boy. He only wears one for racing, but has said that he is not leaving home without a helmet again, many others I know crash and continue to ride without the helmet.

Its all down to personal choice as mentioned above, many old schoolers would be like myself and my mate in that helmets are for races only, until the day you have an incident that causes you to think differently.

Interesting though that Kelly never wears a helmet when he is out on the roads training himself (even though his own brother died in a bike crash).... I suppose he was used to those old leather things, remember those ? You would be as well off with a paper hat as those things. Would love to pick one up for old times sake and turn up at training with it for the craic ! I don't think they are even legal anymore are they ? Have to be hard shell helmets now I think.

niceonetom

was the driver wearing one of these. I bloody hope so...

Nietzschean

tomasrojo wrote: »

Yes, I travel everywhere by bike, about 7000km a year, and I've been doing that for about twenty years. I've had one spill in that time that resulted in me going to A&E, and all that was was a split knee that required no stitches. I've been puzzled therefore why there are so many injuries reported on this forum.

...Uh i don't like somewhat feeding this but anyway... "I've done loads, never had a crash" is statistically insignificant , it doesn't imply anything about the other riders on this forum or anything else. Personal experience makes for terrible comparisons.....

tomasrojo

Nietzschean wrote: »

...Uh i don't like somewhat feeding this but anyway... "I've done loads, never had a crash" is statistically insignificant , it doesn't imply anything about the other riders on this forum or anything else. Personal experience makes for terrible comparisons.....

That's true. Fell into the fallacy of "Anecdata" there. But so have most of the posters before me!

tomasrojo

I also apologise if I appeared to be implying anything about other riders on this forum. It wasn't my intention to do that.

rottenhat

monument wrote: »

* = Sorry, been starting to think more and more this way since average cyclists have been given the name of 'pedestrians on bikes' around these parts. Been also more edging towards the idea that splitting cycling and sporting cycling is a good idea.

You could name them Snobs and POBs.

Bunnyhopper

Hope you have a full and speedy recovery, tunney.

cyclopath2001

tunney wrote: »

Post here if your helmet saved your life.

It would be quite remarkable if anyone will post here from the afterlife.

sy

Quigs Snr wrote: »

Its all down to personal choice as mentioned above, many old schoolers would be like myself and my mate in that helmets are for races only, until the day you have an incident that causes you to think differently.

+1

Quigs Snr wrote: »

I suppose he was used to those old leather things, remember those ? You would be as well off with a paper hat as those things. Would love to pick one up for old times sake and turn up at training with it for the craic !

Still have one! We always called them our bag of sausages:). And were just about as effective!!!

Speedy recovery Tunney.

Cadex

Tunney - best of luck with the recovery, hope it doesn't put you out for too long.

I have two broken helmets including one from an over-the-bonnet jobbie where I landed on it and my shoulder. Had the whole concussion thing and a headache for a week (plus loads of physio on the shoulder). This was in 2006 and shoulder still hurts somtimes but head thankfully seems ok(!).
I was also with Empty when he went off on a damp corner and creamed himself around a tree. When he 'came to' and moved, his helmet came away in about 4 parts with one about the size of his fist. No one can tell me that his head would have been ok if he didn't have it.

Don't understand any need for debate - each to their own and all - but, you wear a seatbelt don't you?

Gavin

Sorry to hear that Tunney, ****ty timing with all your hard work

Pembily

The way I see it is I would rather be an alive uncool person than a dead cool person.

I have cycled for 20 years and only took to wearing a helmet in the last year. I had a crash once and it still didn't make me wear a helmet, I thought ah my head didn't hit the ground!!!!
I started to wear one due to the sudden death of a young family member (not cycling related) but I then realised helmets save lives just the same way seat belts save lives!!!!

But it is a personal choice...

pgibbo

tunney wrote: »

I was hit by a bus on Sunday and have cuts bruises and a cracked collar bone to prove it. I had a masive concussion and am missing hours of my life and half my helmet but I'm still alive, I woulnd't be without my helmet. Thry might not be cool but they work.

Sorry to hear that tunney. Wishing you a speedy recovery!

Does this impact on Austria?