r/saskatoon • u/65mmp • 9h ago
Rants 🤬 Bike Helmets
Been sitting on this one for a while but I guess it is time. I don’t get Saskatonians apparent aversion to bicycle helmets. Retired here from Prince Albert after over six decades of living in the Gateway City. Spent my 35+ years career as an educator with 30 years as a school principal. I had multiple students, and one staff member who had acquired brain injuries. Full disclosure not from bicycle accidents but most of which may have been preventable but helmets. Saskatoon has wonderful biking opportunities and we see an absolute explosion of people riding robust motorized scooters at speeds that surely outpace school zone speed limits. How much of an inconvenience can wearing a helmet really be? Seeing the degree to which lives are changed through head trauma I just don’t get it. Is the likelihood of a serious injury happing to you high? No. But it’s there and I see helmet use
as a mild inconvenience. My rant. Many will disagree I get it. But once your life changes because of a head injury there is no rewind button or reset switch.