Turil said:<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br>> I've flown over my handlebars a number of times and never hit the top<br>> of my head at all. It's not at all physically likely. </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Perhaps unlikely, but it happened to me. 22 years ago, I got broadsided in an office parking lot by someone driving too fast and on the wrong side of the lane. I landed on my helmet and somersaulted. a witness shrieked in horror. The helmet had a terrifying gash in it. I was totally fine. Do what you like, I am required by that to wear a helmet from now on. </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">That being said, helmets have little to do with what the bicycling community really needs. Bike lanes, police awareness, etc.</span></div>