Poll
Question:
Did you wear a bicycle helmet as a kid?
Option 1: 35 or older - yes
votes: 3
Option 2: Younger than 35 - yes
votes: 2
Option 3: 35 or older - no
votes: 28
Option 4: Younger than 35 - no
votes: 24
Option 5: Like Jaron, I never rode a bike as a kid
votes: 2
Inspired by a picture of a kid without a helmet in another thread--which looks a bit odd now. But there was one kid on my block growing up that wore a helmet, and he caught some beatings and grief for it. His parents probably didn't realize that helmet put him more at risk of a head injury.
Darn it. Hit the wrong thing and voted "35 or older--yes" by mistake. Should be "35 or older--no". Heck, modern-type bike helmets weren't even commercially available AFAIK when I was a little kid.
Quote from: dps on June 21, 2012, 09:39:51 PM
Darn it. Hit the wrong thing and voted "35 or older--yes" by mistake. Should be "35 or older--no".
I reset the poll to allow voters to change their vote. Because I want a straight "35 or older--no" run on the table. :P
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 21, 2012, 09:44:48 PM
Quote from: dps on June 21, 2012, 09:39:51 PM
Darn it. Hit the wrong thing and voted "35 or older--yes" by mistake. Should be "35 or older--no".
I reset the poll to allow voters to change their vote. Because I want a straight "35 or older--no" run on the table. :P
Cool.
The answer: No, no, no are you fucking kidding. Wearing a bike helmet in the -70's and very early '80's would get your ass pummeled.
My hometown is too small for bicycles.
Fuck no. That's the sort of thing a homo would do.
Nowadays only white people wear helmets(or the spandex)...or ride bikes where their knees don't go higher than their butts for that matter.
Turn 30 in August and no. Though if I were to buy a bicycle now I would.
The vast majority of Korean kids do not.
No one would have gotten beaten up for being strange -- we weren't troglodytes -- but it would have made you a laughingstock.
I didn't as a kid, but I do know.
And the woman I crashed into, and landed on top of, back in Alaska was fortunate to have been.
Fuck, we used to jump fire ditches, make 6' ramps at construction sites, and generally do shit with bikes, wood and cinder blocks that would make a Soccer Mom today pass out with ocular hemorrhages.
And no, no bicycle helmets.
I of course voted 35+ and no.
But times change. My kid is 2. He wears a bike helmet when he pushes (not pedals :() his tricycle around. Once he starts on a two-wheeler, I want to get one again - and I'll wear a bike helmet too.
No.
When I was 5 or so yeah. Most of the time no.
What's up with the Jaron Option, Mexicans dont ride bikes? They steal them, so they should know how to ride them.
Heck no, which is why I'm this fine well adjusted person that I am after running into all those trees.
Under 35 and no.
Over 35 and no,
But as someone wrote, there werent any
Have kids, they use helmet, as do I when we bike together, do look silly though.
V
35 and no.
Nobody had them in the BMX crowd. It was more for racing bicycles anyways though now you see them for mountain bikes as well.
Younger than 35. No.
Helmets were mandatory on school trips, so we had one in the family that was used for just that. Otherwise I never wore helmet, rarely used helmet on the moped either.
46 and no. Like Seedy, we rode our bikes all over, did jumps, and even had "bike fights" with them.
Today, I ride my normal route along a county highway, with rednecks in pickups racing by me. My bike helmet keeps the beer cans from causing a concussion.
Under 35 & no. Do I look like a cycling fag?
Man, the falls I took.
I still won't wear one, that's not going to go overwell with the GF when I'm going to argue the same for the kids.
Under 35 (if just barely) and no.
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 22, 2012, 07:39:33 AM
Under 35 & no. Do I look like a cycling fag?
Man, the falls I took.
I still won't wear one, that's not going to go overwell with the GF when I'm going to argue the same for the kids.
You know it is now mandatory to wear one...
Quote from: Barrister on June 22, 2012, 09:04:35 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 22, 2012, 07:39:33 AM
Under 35 & no. Do I look like a cycling fag?
Man, the falls I took.
I still won't wear one, that's not going to go overwell with the GF when I'm going to argue the same for the kids.
You know it is now mandatory to wear one...
Spoken like a true jackbooted thug.
Quote from: Scipio on June 22, 2012, 09:10:31 AM
Quote from: Barrister on June 22, 2012, 09:04:35 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 22, 2012, 07:39:33 AM
Under 35 & no. Do I look like a cycling fag?
Man, the falls I took.
I still won't wear one, that's not going to go overwell with the GF when I'm going to argue the same for the kids.
You know it is now mandatory to wear one...
Spoken like a true jackbooted thug.
I'm a loafer-wearing thug, thank you very much. -_-
39 and a big fucking NO.
I ran my bike everywhere, city and country roads. My kids wear it when cycling in town, they don't use it offroad .
On a somewhat related note, though, last year I bought an helmet for skiing. Too many idiots recklessly speeding on ski slopes.
L.
I wore it all the time, and I didn't even have a bicycle.
Quote from: DGuller on June 22, 2012, 09:55:21 AM
I wore it all the time, and I didn't even have a bicycle.
:D
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 21, 2012, 10:44:32 PM
Fuck, we used to jump fire ditches, make 6' ramps at construction sites, and generally do shit with bikes, wood and cinder blocks that would make a Soccer Mom today pass out with ocular hemorrhages.
And no, no bicycle helmets.
about the same here :)
Quote from: 11B4V on June 22, 2012, 01:26:38 AM
What's up with the Jaron Option, Mexicans dont ride bikes? They steal them, so they should know how to ride them.
They also steal Rayban sunglasses, and that doens't mean they know how to wear them.
35 or older - no
I was run over by a car on the way to school (10th grade) and all I had was road rash.
it gets better: I had a test that day so I asked the lady that almost killed me to take my bike back home and drive me to school. Turs out she lived close and her daughter went to school close to mine, she gave me a ride to school for almost the whole school year until I fixed my bike.
I selected the last option as I can't really ride a bike but I'll say that yes many peeps were wearing helmets. Yay for the 90s.
Quote from: The Brain on June 22, 2012, 03:56:34 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 22, 2012, 03:54:40 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 22, 2012, 03:50:45 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 22, 2012, 02:03:44 PM
I can't really ride a bike
Shocker.
Why would I want to?
Why wouldn't you? See, two can play that game.
Because bicycles are unnecessary? Here in the city they are pretty dangerous. If I want to get somewhere slowly I can walk and if I want to get somewhere quickly, I can drive my car. Cars are also preferable for when I want run someone over.
Quote from: garbon on June 22, 2012, 04:00:11 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 22, 2012, 03:56:34 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 22, 2012, 03:54:40 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 22, 2012, 03:50:45 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 22, 2012, 02:03:44 PM
I can't really ride a bike
Shocker.
Why would I want to?
Why wouldn't you? See, two can play that game.
Because bicycles are unnecessary? Here in the city they are pretty dangerous. If I want to get somewhere slowly I can walk and if I want to get somewhere quickly, I can drive my car. Cars are also preferable for when I want run someone over.
Your parents let you drive the car around town when you were little?
Quote from: The Brain on June 22, 2012, 04:02:42 PM
Your parents let you drive the car around town when you were little?
Our house wasn't really near anything in town*. If I wanted to go somewhere, I cajoled my parents into driving me. :)
*I was late to work once in my teens as there were cows loose on the road and then further down the street, hay bales had fallen off a truck.
Quote from: garbon on June 22, 2012, 04:04:45 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 22, 2012, 04:02:42 PM
Your parents let you drive the car around town when you were little?
Our house wasn't really near anything in town. If I wanted to go somewhere, I cajoled my parents into driving me. :)
:)
Over 35 and did not wear a helmet when riding a bike as a kid except for when a friends Mom saw us doing jumps on our BMXs and she made us wear her husbands motorcycle helmets.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 22, 2012, 05:28:49 PM
Probably can't swim, either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyEgOxgtKQg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyEgOxgtKQg)
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 22, 2012, 05:38:15 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyEgOxgtKQg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyEgOxgtKQg)
Oh snap, dawg, no you didn't get my attention with "Related Links". :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYm4C1js_l0&feature=related
Now that's what the fuck I'm talking about.
35 and no way, never even heard of one back then. We did more crazy stuff on our Big Wheels, before we had bikes.
Big Wheels. :)
Curb jumping extreme!
We lived in a pretty hilly area. There was one really steep street, the top was a dead end and at the bottom was a t intersection with another residential street. We would go to the top of that street on our Big Wheels and come screaming down the hill, with feet up, and shoot across the other street, with no flaggers or spotters, hit the curb and fly into my next door neighbors yard. It was fun for a few weeks until a stupid adult saw what we were doing and had a conniption fit and told our parents.
Damn old people. :mad:
Quote from: sbr on June 22, 2012, 06:55:56 PM
We lived in a pretty hilly area. There was one really steep street, the top was a dead end and at the bottom was a t intersection with another residential street. We would go to the top of that street on our Big Wheels and come screaming down the hill, with feet up, and shoot across the other street, with no flaggers or spotters, hit the curb and fly into my next door neighbors yard. It was fun for a few weeks until a stupid adult saw what we were doing and had a conniption fit and told our parents.
We we were kids we decided to become parachutists. We practiced our skills for a few days by jumping from very low tree limbs with grocery bags held over our heads. No one was injured, so obviously our skills were sound.
We then decided to go to the next level. We made a parachute with a bookbag and a sheet tied inside. The concept was to jump from a tall tree (probably about 25 ft), unzip the bookbag, and then parachute safely to the ground. One of my friends was climbing the tree for the moment of glory, when his idiot father looked out the window and shut it down while freaking out, obviously not appreciating our da vinci like genius and design.
The poll isn't what I expected--we are older than I thought, and I figured most young people use helmets.
I remember constructing suits of armor from cardboard boxes and duct tape, then beating each other with rolled up newspaper swords.
Bicycle helmets never fit me right, so I didn't bother. As far as beatings for appearances, my white, blue, and purple Huffy bicycle did a lot more to earn me beatings than a dorky helmet ever would. :blush:
Actually, come to think, the only serious accident I ever had on a bicycle as a kid on my BMX would have been better with heavy duty boots. It had those serrated-kind of pedals (probably for better grip), and once going down a hill, I took my feet off...the pedals kept spinning, and when I stupidly try to put my feet back on, and it tore a good chunk out of my left ankle. The doctor said it was a good thing I was a fat kid, as that was about all it tore out. :D
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 22, 2012, 11:06:55 PM
Actually, come to think, the only serious accident I ever had on a bicycle as a kid on my BMX would have been better with heavy duty boots. It had those serrated-kind of pedals (probably for better grip), and once going down a hill, I took my feet off...the pedals kept spinning, and when I stupidly try to put my feet back on, and it tore a good chunk out of my left ankle. The doctor said it was a good thing I was a fat kid, as that was about all it tore out. :D
I used to ride a bicycle, then I took a spoke to the knee.
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 22, 2012, 09:18:00 PM
I remember constructing suits of armor from cardboard boxes and duct tape, then beating each other with rolled up newspaper swords.
Enough about your date last week, what did you do as a child.
Quote from: alfred russel on June 22, 2012, 08:05:02 PM
We we were kids we decided to become parachutists. We practiced our skills for a few days by jumping from very low tree limbs with grocery bags held over our heads. No one was injured, so obviously our skills were sound.
How is putting a gorcery bag over your head going to slow your rate of descent?? :huh:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fl.yimg.com%2Fk%2Fim_siggG0EWMgn0srNo5Ukr72pe8A---y626-x495-q75-n1%2Fomg%2Fus%2Fimg%2Fb5%2F8c%2F1995201685_3431712621.jpg&hash=37fe911379b84d880ddb104ec9cc945d9fd0a2e7)
No, nobody wears a helmet here. Bicycles have de facto right of way over everything (pedestrians, cars, zebra crossings, traffic lights).
Besides, unless you're old it's pretty hard to hurt yourself at such slow speeds.
I do wear a helmet every time I'm on the racing bike, and I won't ride with anyone who doesn't.
Quote from: Maladict on June 23, 2012, 08:23:38 AM
No, nobody wears a helmet here. Bicycles have de facto right of way over everything (pedestrians, cars, zebra crossings, traffic lights).
Where's this Utopia? Hippieland. :P
Quote from: 11B4V on June 23, 2012, 10:23:09 AM
Quote from: Maladict on June 23, 2012, 08:23:38 AM
No, nobody wears a helmet here. Bicycles have de facto right of way over everything (pedestrians, cars, zebra crossings, traffic lights).
Where's this Utopia? Hippieland. :P
That's OK, they still can't out-legislate basic physics. 4 wheels good, 2 wheels bad.
Quote from: alfred russel on June 22, 2012, 08:05:02 PM
The poll isn't what I expected--we are older than I thought, and I figured most young people use helmets.
Oh, I knew a lot of us are over 35, but I also expected that most young people use helmets.
They are trying to act cool in front of us elders. You know those young people had matching mittens with their crash helmets.
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 23, 2012, 11:58:36 AM
They are trying to act cool in front of us elders. You know those young people had matching mittens with their crash helmets.
Sewn into their sleeves so they don't get lost.
Quote from: alfred russel on June 22, 2012, 08:05:02 PM
We we were kids we decided to become parachutists. We practiced our skills for a few days by jumping from very low tree limbs with grocery bags held over our heads. No one was injured, so obviously our skills were sound.
We then decided to go to the next level. We made a parachute with a bookbag and a sheet tied inside. The concept was to jump from a tall tree (probably about 25 ft), unzip the bookbag, and then parachute safely to the ground. One of my friends was climbing the tree for the moment of glory, when his idiot father looked out the window and shut it down while freaking out, obviously not appreciating our da vinci like genius and design.
Great story Fredo. :lol:
Quote from: mongers on June 23, 2012, 07:31:19 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 22, 2012, 09:18:00 PM
I remember constructing suits of armor from cardboard boxes and duct tape, then beating each other with rolled up newspaper swords.
Enough about your date last week, what did you do as a child.
Some things never get old. :mad:
Bicycles are for pussies.
Real kids walk around in combat boots, heavy backpacks, and old oversized camouflage uniforms.
Quote from: Siege on June 23, 2012, 11:21:35 PM
Bicycles are for pussies.
Real kids walk around in combat boots, heavy backpacks, and old oversized camouflage uniforms.
That's called a skinhead. From my understanding, they dont like :Joos ;)
Quote from: Siege on June 23, 2012, 11:21:35 PM
Bicycles are for pussies.
Real kids walk around in combat boots, heavy backpacks, and old oversized camouflage uniforms.
And then we have another school shooting.
Under 35 and yes and no. I didn't when I was just cycling with friends or just in my area. If I was going on a long cycle into Forestry Commission land or whatever then yeah.
Quote from: Siege on June 23, 2012, 11:21:35 PM
Bicycles are for pussies.
Real kids walk around in combat boots, heavy backpacks, and old oversized camouflage uniforms.
So real kids take 2-3 times as long to go places? :hmm:
Voted 35 or younger and no, but should have voted 35 or younger and yes.
^_^ :tinfoil:
Nah, no helmets for me as a kid! When I grew up we didn't need no steenkin' helmets!! We were tough utes!! ;) I don't know if anyone wore helmets back then, except for bike racers probably.
35+ and n helmets.
Quote from: KRonn on June 24, 2012, 06:08:46 PM
We were tough utes!!
Did you saddle your horses?
I haven't seen My Counsin Vinny in months. Time to go check TNT or TBS.
Quote from: dps on June 23, 2012, 11:16:52 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on June 22, 2012, 08:05:02 PM
The poll isn't what I expected--we are older than I thought, and I figured most young people use helmets.
Oh, I knew a lot of us are over 35, but I also expected that most young people use helmets.
It seems to me that most Languishites would have been driving by the time the helmet craze hit in the 2000s.
Quote from: sbr on June 24, 2012, 06:45:49 PM
I haven't seen My Counsin Vinny in months. Time to go check TNT or TBS.
I've seen it a couple of times recently. Funny movie, good stuff in that movie! :D
Is that the movie where the karate kid have to be saved by Leo Getz and Lisa Provolone?
Quote from: Siege on June 24, 2012, 07:51:55 PM
Is that the movie where the karate kid have to be saved by Leo Getz and Lisa Provolone?
Yeah, that's the one. Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei. Fred Gwynne (aka Herman Munster) as the judge.