[Beasty]

a plastic helmet will do nothing when you are impaled by an oncoming mini van lol.

[calv1n]

I got hit by a car when I was 12 when I was on my bicycle. I was a little dumbshit and was going back and forth in the middle of the road. The worst part of it is, it was some poor girl that had a special license, she was only 15 years old. Damn that sucked so much ass for her, to have to deal with that just because a kid is a dumbshit... Anywho, it sent me flying (from what I hear) and made first contact with my helmet and the concrete. I may not have died or anything without it, but the fact that I WAS wearing it, made my head safe and I only broke my thumb, lucky as shit.

As for the whole bicycle not car situation. This is real life, not some game with a tiny city or some shit where you can ride your bike everywhere, people need to get places. Unless you live in a city and don't have very many places to be that are very far. Lol