Helmets

[casjcade]

Wearing a helmet alot at work, and done a bit of biking crashing head first into a pile of rocks a few times. No point resisting when kids demand it (at least around resorts). I'll sometimes just wear helmet and goggles uphill too, for simplicity, don't need a pack then most of the time. Plus headlamp is on helmet. Not bothered. Bern Baker/Watts and Salewa Vert isn't bad.

[Spenser]

Not sure how they get their data. I have kissed a tree a few times. I never filled out a form stating that I had a potential head injury. All of those studies are just semi educated guesses.

This is a legitimate point I always think about when the topic comes up. I guess it's true with any study… a whole lot happens in reality without ever being accounted for.

For the record, sharing the article was just that. I think helmets are a good idea in general, but would agree with part of the sentiment in that it's not exactly linear, nor an absolute.

For common lower-impact incidents, it seems like obvious protection. Gash your head, or ding your helmet. Even if it simply avoids a bit of temporary pain with no injury, that's still better, no?

I'm sure there are people who become overly confident when wearing a helmet that then go on to get injured, while they wouldn't have done the same thing otherwise, but I have a hard time believing that's the norm. Me personally, it makes absolutely no difference in my decision making.

On a mountain bike, I wear one without question.

A couple friends have given me light shit before for not wearing one, but in a very non-serious way. Last season was the first time I was "helmet shamed." I had just met a skier friend of a friend a moment before, and on the way to the lift, he made a surprisingly douchey comment right off the bat. But, then, he was visiting from Anchorage/Alyeska. In my ongoing lifetime study on folks from there, people like him are the norm.

[eleveneightnate]

I'm sure there are people who become overly confident when wearing a helmet that then go on to get injured, while they wouldn't have done the same thing otherwise

I'm guilty of this, except it's one part helmet/one part beer/and one part "who says you need pow to drop cliffs?".

[scrub]

The two concussions I’ve had from snowboarding were both at low speed dicking around and smacking my head on icy groomers so I wear a helmet now and feel weird without it.

My two knee injuries were from smacking trees at a high rate of speed, and as much as I love riding trees I go much slower through them now.

[Blessed420]

i wear a helmet just for that reason when i slip out of a rail and bash my head in it and maybe i dont get a gash in my head.

but atleast for me it doesnt give me zero sense of false security as the falls always hurt the same amount.

[Vanni]

Guys, I would like to replace my old entry level helment (it's a skate like helmet, from Red or Anon, not sure).

In the last few years I used a beanie and the goggle under the helmet, I removed the ear pads and the liner, so it is basically a shell with the protection foam.

The last yeat I bought an helmet with MIPS, it fitted me perfect but I cannot wear a beanie and the goggle under it. So I sent it back.
This year I would like to do a second attempt.

Any of you are using a MIPS helmet with beanie & goggle under?
Did you remove something from the helmet to accomodate the beanie and goggle? Of course, the ear pads... but are there other things to remove?
I guess if I the size S fitted me perfect without goggle and beanie, I should only maybe need to go up one size... right?

Or should I give up, and start wearing helmet without a beanie and with goggle over it?
I admit I'm doing it primarly for style reasons

thanks

[McK21]

I use a normal snowboard helmet, I think Anon something with mips, without the ear pads but I wear a dakine balaclava ( a lightweight one for normal season days and a wool one for really cold days) and I feel good like that, I even don't know if it's a good idea to wear a beanie under the helmet, my idea is that if you hit something with your head the helmet doesn't work the way it is supposed to do, but maybe I'm wrong.

[eleveneightnate]

Guys, I would like to replace my old entry level helment (it's a skate like helmet, from Red or Anon, not sure).

In the last few years I used a beanie and the goggle under the helmet, I removed the ear pads and the liner, so it is basically a shell with the protection foam.

The last yeat I bought an helmet with MIPS, it fitted me perfect but I cannot wear a beanie and the goggle under it. So I sent it back.
This year I would like to do a second attempt.

Any of you are using a MIPS helmet with beanie & goggle under?
Did you remove something from the helmet to accomodate the beanie and goggle? Of course, the ear pads... but are there other things to remove?
I guess if I the size S fitted me perfect without goggle and beanie, I should only maybe need to go up one size... right?

Or should I give up, and start wearing helmet without a beanie and with goggle over it?
I admit I'm doing it primarly for style reasons

thanks

Yep, go up a size if you're getting one with MIPS and want to wear a beanie underneath. I fit into a regular Smith Maze in medium with a beanie on, but the MIPS Maze in medium doesn't fit me with a beanie (the large does).

[C.Fuzzy]

I use a normal snowboard helmet, I think Anon something with mips, without the ear pads but I wear a dakine balaclava ( a lightweight one for normal season days and a wool one for really cold days) and I feel good like that, I even don't know if it's a good idea to wear a beanie under the helmet, my idea is that if you hit something with your head the helmet doesn't work the way it is supposed to do, but maybe I'm wrong.

Imo A beanie would likely compliment the way mips functions as protection by allowing dissipation of the rotational force in a impact, and add a bit of additional padding, whatever that would be worth. I don't see a downside, unless the beanie is an information garage one. Heh.

[benjinyc]

I have a Giro skate/bmx helmet with MIPS that I wear with beanie/goggles under
got it on sale for like $40

its literally the same as their ski/snow one, it just doesn't come with the ear covers that I wasn't going to use anyways

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