If the skull is supposed to protect your brain, why should you wear a helmet when riding a bicycle?

Question

What I think is that a helmet protects your skin on your head and also kind of your skull. Without a helmet your skin on your head can be vurnerable to a fall, a thrown object,.etc while riding a bycyclie which could damage it. If those same things also happen without a helmet your skull can brake leaving the brain out and vunerable.(do you think that is right).

Answer 1

If the skull protects your brain, you wear the helmet to protect your skull.  I would NOT think of working without my hard hat, or riding without a helmet.  I love being able to walk, talk, and function in general.  Anything to protect my brain from damage!  I wouldn't ride without my leathers either, I also like having skin!  Please, for your own self preservation, wear it.  Blessed Be.

Answer 2

The skull is just a outer layer of calcified skin. Yes, it does help a bit for protection, but not meant as the primary safety factor.  The skull is, as the rest of your body,  open to hazards.

And since your brain is the complete body sensory function, why would you not want the most protection available.

Consider football players.

Answer 3

You have definitely answered your own question!

I DID have a bicycle accident (on December 7th, 1999) and was not wearing a helmet!

One split second, I saw the SUV start to move and the next thing I knew I was waking up on the ground with people hovering all around me - including a couple of policemen - which told me that I had been unconscious long enough for the police to have been called and for them to have arrived.

One of them shoved a clipboard at me and told me to sign what was on it.  My eyeglasses had been totally mangled and I couldn't even see what it was, but my thoughts were still pretty fuzzy, so I signed it.  (The next day I found out it was a ticket for riding the wrong way in a lane of traffic - which was NOT what I had been doing!)

They kept asking me my phone number and address.  I KNEW where I lived - I could have directed anyone there easily - but I just could NOT remember the actual address or phone number for about 20 to 30 minutes.

Having no medical insurance back then, and realizing that I had suffered no critical damage, I insisted on being taken home instead of to a hospital.  I was stiff and sore in many places and it really ached to move around for the rest of that first day.  The second day, however, the aches and pains had all worn off, but I DID have a nasty scalp injury to the back of my head (an open wound about the size of a quarter)  that seeped and bled for nearly a week!

The very NEXT time I got on a bicycle, it was WITH a HELMET on my head.  I have NOT ridden without one since then!

Answer 4

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It DOEs protect your brain, from ordinary falls, most of the time.

But when you're doing something, like moving super fast, then a helmet prevents you from cracking or crushing your skull.

Answer 5

Now that you spell it out, wearing a helmet makes sense. I would venture to say, it is right. I still believe that if you are over 18 and choose when you wish to wear it, it should be just that. A Choice, not a law.

Answer 6

Becuase extra protection is always helpful when "dismounting" at a high speed

Answer 7

Not only break, but the skull can take a hard hit, causing the brain t become "bruised" and swell.  Always wear a helmet.