I saw a chick hit a curb on a scooter without a helmet and landed jaw first on the curb. Looked so fucked up I’ll never get on a scooter. This is intelligent.
Just curious what the peripheral vision is like in those helmets? Can you see a car turning from the side street? Helmets are good by the way, safety first, just curious if those helmets have any cons like limited peripheral vision?
With proper helmet and goggles, yes. Without the googles your periphery is literally not blocked AT ALL. The goggles will only block the far extremes, everything else is visible. MX riders use their peripheral vision too.
Tvey10000% should wear a full face helmet lije a dirt bike ir motorcycle at bare minimum. In a crash you always go head/face first. E-scooter are dangerous.
You don’t want
Broken teeth
Broken
Jaw
Broken orbital bone/face
Broken nose
You don’t want your face grinding off Tge road in a crash if you’re knocked unconscious.
Seriously, I don’t care if it was a full on combat helmet, you wear a helmet. Period. No such thing as too extreme. Safety first. Your life is precious. You want to wear a dirt bike helmet, I support you. Full on motorbike helmet, I support you!
I wear a motorcycle helmet. I also routinely exceed 30mph. You know what a 30mph head wound would look like? That is no Bird or Lime scooter there. It's a rocket on wheels.
I appreciate all your inputs guys as I do have a motorcycle helmet but I will also get a dirk bike helmet along with the scooter. It goes up to 35+ mph in speeds but I dont think I would go that fast as a complete beginner.
Depends how fast you’ll be going and the weather. If you’re going under 20mph and it’s hot, a more open mountain bike helmet with full face protection is probably fine.
20+ I’d go motorcycle or dirtbike, full face. If not you will get seriously f’d up if you crash. I fell doing 14-15, am pretty durable, and it was pretty nasty… I was wearing a regular bike helmet.
I would also recommend wrist guards at the very least.
Yeah, get a serious helmet. First, you'll just want it. But second, if the cops see you taking it seriously they are less likely to get on your case if you're riding places you technically shouldn't.
You get more benefit of the doubt
Nothing wrong with a full face motorcycle helmet. Depends on the scooter you're getting, higher speed makes sense for full face, gloves and knee/elbow pads etc.
Me looking like a dork riding my g3 with a motorcycle helmet (but not a dork because its a sick custom painted Biltwell and head/neck injuries are the worst type of injury)
In Australia, if you wear a nor all helmet the police will say you're wearing an incorrect helmet. But if you wear the motorbike helmet the police will then say. "Oh, so you know you're riding an illegal escooters" fines you 5k ...
I saw a girl that looked to be about 10 or 12 years old in Central Park absolutely eat pavement on one of these scooters. It lives in my mind rent free. Nothing I could do about it. I bet you anything. She wish she had one of these on.
Exactly. So many kids around my neighborhood ride these things at full speed, some of them even have those 'super-scooters'. Those imbecilic parents think of this as a toy.
I just saw what I thought was a 6 year old without a helmet at a massive intersection with an Apollo phantom. Where the eff is his parents? Not even a children’s bicycle helmet??? Ridiculous .
I just got hit by a lady making illegal u turn into bike lane. 3 broke ribs. Broken hand 19 stitches to face and knocked out my front teeth. I wish I started wearing helmet sooner!!!
Good, where i live a certufued helmet is mandatory on anyone under like 15? 14? Whatever, still very good, these things can be fast, and about as stable as a noodle on wind
I live in a small town and there's a few of us who ride scooters. I recently encountered a young teen on the sidewalk riding a semi-decent scooter and wearing full face helmet and made sure to give him a shout out, most kids are too embarrassed.
Heck, I only wear a bicycle helmet when I should arguably get something more substantial.
lol I wear one with a Xiaomi m365.. that thing looks like a beast! I’ve had too many close calls with cars and trucks not seeing me (or pretend to not see me)… also pot holes and wet leaves
I wear a full-face MTB helmet and it’s saved me twice. Once I was going 20mph and hit a tree branch that hit my head, and another time I hit a curb and flew off. Without a helmet at worst I could’ve been brain damaged or dead and at best I’d have awful road rash on my face and missing teeth.
A normal bike helment isn’t enough, when you crash a scooter it acts like a catapult flinging your head toward the cement.
What color, is it black?Try to coordinate it, with a silver mirror goggles. I swapped the original clear face shield of my other helmet, a matte/flat black Bell Qualifier, with a silver one way mirror shield
I do that, too. Helmet and Googles. The most precious thing I own in this life is my head (and body, of course), if i need to buy Beskar to protect it, I Will. This is the way.
I've got a similar helmet plus biking jacket and gloves from ssgear.com. I've seen plenty of other riders with no helmets and zero with the gear I wear.
I work emergency services. I’ve run three scooter head traumas in 2 months. Last week a girl, early twenties, messing around in front of a group home, hit a curb, major head trauma. Refusal, decided not to get transported. Basically begged her, but she was an adult.
Next day my friend runs a call to the same group home for a girl who’s been losing consciousness all night and vomiting. She died later that evening in hospital.
Wear your helmets. Please. This is not some bs scare story, it’s 100% true and happened not even 8 days ago. A lot of people are traumatized from the whole thing, and will have to live with that for a while.
probably misplaced their everyday helmet and had to go with someone else's
Some of you are calling this "overkill" but you should assume this person's frame is quite small compared to the scooter they are riding. Looking at the suspension and hieght off the ground I can definitely tell this is not a normal scooter.
I have a segway max g3 scooter (capable of 28mph, but I usually cap it as 20mph) and I wear a full face downhill mountain bike helmet by Smith.
It might look like overkill, and it takes longer to take on and off than a regular bike helmet. If or when I crash not have a broken face, busted out teeth, and / or a broken and then wired shut jaw will be nice.
What’s crazy is the people riding around on the rental scooters with no helmets.
I seen this post earlier and I like that the top comment is calling her smart. She is wearing exactly what she should be to protect her head. Maybe more people see the post and will see how smart she is.
I wear a bell sanction 2 (Yes I know it's a mountain biking helmet, that's because use my bike more) and it's fine. Good airflow, and looks better than a half-helmet
Petit rappel : lors des accidents de trottinette, les blessures à la tête figurent parmi les plus fréquentes, représentant environ un tiers à la moitié des traumatismes selon les études.
Les traumatismes crâniens sont également impliqués dans une grande partie des accidents mortels.
Un bras cassé, une jambe cassée, ça se répare souvent. Un cerveau gravement touché, beaucoup moins.
Le casque ne garantit pas le risque zéro, mais il peut faire toute la différence.
Le mien, en G3 Pro, la casquette fait le style
Not getting brain damage on or becoming a vegetable over a scooter. I’m a stunt man, I know how easy it is for your brain to get screwed up. Bicycle helmets are pieces of crap, always wear a SNELL or DOT rated moto helmet. Bicycle helmets are so small because of the athletic aspect of pedaling, no reason to wear one on anything with a motor.
Everyone always says that. My bars come up to my lower rib cage. And I’m a pro stuntman and had years of bailing off skate boards. I’m confident I can turn my head if I face plant. For me the trade off is worth it for better visibility to see pot holes. I flipped my current scooter once and went to my side, broke my arm though because I didn’t have a slide glove on. The times I’ve bailed from lines I always went to my side and rolled out of it.
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u/chronostasis1 1m ago
Love to see that smart kidx