Bicycle Helmets on the Slopes!!!

Wanderer, If you're in the UK and google Pro tec B2 helmet you'll find sites selling the B2 and some other Pro tec helmets for less than 25 quid. For what it's worth they meet euro BS and CE certification.

Lastly I do wear a ski helmet. I don't do off piste, ski between trees, ski near rocks or ski recklessly so the helmet is worn more to protect my head from being hit by chairlift safety bars, t-bars, skis being carried in the gondola queue, and head plants when falling backwards onto hard pack or ice. They could be described as trivial matters but they matter to me.

AJ wrote:Also, don't forget - you can lift your googles onto your forehead without them steaming up.


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iloveskiing wrote:to protect my head from being hit by chairlift safety bars, t-bars

That's the other odd thing about ski helmets. Mine's always getting hit by t-bar poles and chairlifts. I can't ever remember getting hit by one before I wore the helmet :oops:

Its because your head is now about 3 inches taller than it was, Keith!

You could audition for the next Tefal adverts.....

ise wrote:Second, "And only if it lured someone into a false sense of security could it make things worse (debatable)." Actually, that's not debatable at all, it's an established medical fact that people do engage in more risk intensive behaviour if they've access to safety equipment like helmets. I realise a great number of people refuse to accept that but they need to argue that point with bodies like the BMA if they've got a good counter argument and some research.

Its the "only" part that was debatable, meaning its debatable if that was the only way wearing it could make things worse, there could be other ways. I can see by the way it was written though why you could think I thought that way.