Re: This guy is wearing a helmet
"This guy was wearing but it didn't save him. Just cause ya wear or don't wear won't guarantee anything."
I never understand this sort of attitude. Of course there are no guarantees, nobody ever said that there's a guarantee that if you wear the right gear that you still won't get killed. It comes down to simple common sense. Would you rather get knocked off your bike by some errant driver and slide down the blacktop at 70mph while wearing full leathers, boots, gloves and helmet, or would you rather go sliding while wearing shorts, t-shirts, no helmet, no gloves and and runners?
If you get knocked off awkwardly, would you rather smack your head into the blacktop falling from a height of 6' while wearing a helmet, or not wearing a helmet? Keeping in mind that people dying from head and brain injuries even from falling over drunk outside of pubs and smacking their unprotected heads into the curb is not that uncommon.
Of course there's no guarantees. If your head gets run over by a truck, it won't matter if you're wearing a helmet or not, but for everything else short of certain death scenarios, protective gear can often mean the difference between a life-time of pain and misery, or simply getting up with a few grazes and bruises.