Just watched the hicks video where he splits his melon wide open and then claims that a helmet wouldn't have helped protect him any made me wonder how many of you wear gear vs how many don't?
i personally think the helmet would have protected him "better", he'd probably still have a black eye due to the impact but i don't think he would have split his melon open like he did due to having that extra inch of protection, reading the comments section of that vid showed me that some people were almost "militant" like in their opposition to wearing gear.
me personally i grew up not really wearing any other than knee/elbow pads when skateboarding, but bike riding i didn't really wear anything, but now being older and slightly wiser and coming from a motorcycling background where gear saves lives i now would wear a skate/bmx lid when on the bike, i would have done a poll but seems this forum doesn't have the option.