Crash Helmets

[Ray The Brake]

Given our friends with aero screens wear helmets, I would like the opinion of our members who have a full screen.

Do you windscreen guy's wear a helmet.

Your thoughts on this would be very interesting

[Rory's Dad]

No need IMO. Wind deflectors minimise the back draught (and the rain). I like the feel of the wind and I don't much like a helmet in 'recreational' circumstances (head in a bucket).

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

I've not heard too much of the for/against argument for helmets for a few years now, (not to the extent it used to be debated).

However, one of the things that would always get dredged up eventually, was the legality, or otherwise, in cars.

First, let me state that personally, I was never convinced with this argument. I NEVER had a single issue with an of the multitude of cops I've passed whilst wearing one in the old aero days. Even when I have been stopped, to ask about the car etc, never got the other sort of stop(!) the helmet issue never came up.

BUT, I think there was certainly a very common sense approach take by the BiB to those in cars with no windscreen wearing full face helmets. I'm not sure if that would be the case in a car with a windscreen, I think you could possibly make a fair argument on the motorway, or if caught in rain etc. But I suspect even if not a direct offense in itself, wearing a helmet in a windscreen equipped car while blasting around on the A and B roads, could well bring you the wrong sort of attention from the BiB, and for that matter, the boy racers.

[CraigHew]

I have a windscreen and wind deflectors fitted. I wear goggles, primarily to stop my specs being blown off my head but also to negate flies and stones that find their way into your face.

Having ridden bikes for a long time I'm extremely comfortable wearing a helmet but personally I think they're a tad too restrictive (field of view / hearing impairment) in my car.

I don't even see the benefit of a helmet in the rain as it's hard enough seeing through the screen on a westfield without another layer of perspex to squint through.

[NickBW]

Those with wind deflectors fitted, have you been hit by a stone before?

I remember watching an Ariel Atom video of blatting around some country lanes and the driver got a split lip from a stone from an oncoming car/or the car in front.

 

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[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Yes, back in the days of running an aeroscreen, the forehead area of my crash helmet was peppered with gravel rash from small stone impacts.

[6carjon]

Thankfully no but I have worn a pigeon for which I was pleased for it to get on my helmet and not my open face 

[Onliest Smeg David]

 

9 hours ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - WSCC AO Rep said:

Yes, back in the days of running an aeroscreen, the forehead area of my crash helmet was peppered with gravel rash from small stone impacts.

 

2 hours ago, 6carjon said:

Thankfully no but I have worn a pigeon for which I was pleased for it to get on my helmet and not my open face 

Yep....

An aeroscreen will only direct smallest / lightest 'debris' over occupants.  Leaving the stuff that can do real damage to head straight through! No brainer IMO for helmet.

I've been hit in forehead by small stones, and I have a windscreen! I choose not to wear a helmet but always wear impact resistant glasses and hat (which also stops sunburning me baldy head)

I have seen a few wearing helmets with windscreen.