If you are looking for a way to attach a little flashing red light to the back of your helmet, try a little piece of self adhesive velcro. It happens all too often and it s also one of my biggest pet peeves skaters who refuse to wear helmets. You see it a lot in this area especially. At the Moonlight Ramble for example, the vast majority of skaters were sans helmets, but if you go to a major organized event elsewhere such as the A2A or any professional inline race, everybody is wearing a helmet. To their credit, most of the skaters I saw at this year s Ramble were at least wearing pads, but for some reason or another, many chose to neglect protecting the most important part of their body their brains.
Skaters don t usually land on their heads when they fall.
The list goes on and on. Let s examine the illogic in some of these statements. As for not landing on their heads, I personally know several people who have been spared a serious head injury because they landed on their helmets while there are numerous accounts of skaters who have suffered head injuries because they were not wearing helmets. The latest incident involved Tracy Hutson, one of the regulars at the Saturday morning speed workout in Brookshire and the only regular who doesn t wear a helmet. Yesterday, while skating in a fast moving pace line, Tracy went down and hit his head on the pavement resulting in a big knot on his forehead.