Helmets are bikers ultimate buddies. But not many of the irresponsible bikers on the street road believes this. In fatal accidents, this can prove a thin difference between LIFE and DEATH or FATAL or MINOR Accident. Here i bring you a beautiful write up on WHY, HOW and WHICH of Biking Helmets. Please read on

Why wear a helmet?

The answer is very simple to Save Your Own Life.
Secondly it is mandatory as per Indian Laws to wear a helmet, though this law is not implemented in most cities and states in India.
Thirdly we are paying you to wear a helmet. We are paying you to save your own life.

We pray that you always reach home safely after driving, but just in case you met with an accident, helmet is life saver for you. It prevents fatal injuries to your head and face. It saves life...

Why should I wear a helmet?

* It saves your life by preventing fatal injuries to your head and face.
* It prevents you from sunlight, sunburns.
* It prevents you from dust and dirt.
* You actually look good with a helmet on.
* It prevents your head from getting wet when it rains.
* It even prevents you from recognition, though we do not endorse this reason.

We personally feel that only one reason is good enough to always wear a helmet when you drive a 2 wheeler. Is it not?
Riding a bike at 50 km/hr means you will hit the road at this very speed. Imagine the impact of it on your head and face when you hit it with this speed.
Compared to the lifetime cost of a head injury the cost of a bike helmet is cheap. Think about tomorrow, buy and wear a helmet today.

You may find it very cumbersome to wear helmets. Every time somebody insists on your wearing one, you may think it is a waste of time. You may feel that accidents can never happen to you. If you are a safe rider then why worry? A little care can save your life.. then why not take such a small precaution.

How does a helmet work?

A helmet works exactly like your skull. Made from fibreglass and thermoplastic it acts like a shell for protecting your brain. The inside of a helmet is lined with expanded polystyrene (EPS) of controlled density. When the helmet is struck with a hard surface, the inner lining acts as a buffer and absorbs the shock. It bears the sudden change in energy and pressure and keeps the skull intact. The EPS may crush but it still protects the skull. When the skull is hit it moves towards the brain, leading to brain damage. The helmet, by buffering the impact of shock and dissipating the energy, prevents the skull from causing an impact on the brain.

What makes a good helmet?

A good helmet is one that promotes your safety. Ensure that you check for these features:

* The outer shell of a good helmet must be made of fiberglass or thermoplastic. EPS is the best energy absorbent and is a must for helmets.
* Look for a strong chinstrap. Nylon or Tyrelene are the best. The chinstraps must be secured to the shell by steel anchor plates.
* Fastening by double 'D' rings, bars & buckles or an all metal clasps is also safe. Copper or brass is the best for fixing anchor plates to the shell.

Checklist before buying a helmet

You are ready to buy a helmet, but do not know where to begin. Here is a checklist that can make buying a helmet easier and meaningful.

* Check for safety standards.The safety standard that the Indian government has approved for motorcycle helmets is IS 4151.
* Check the fit. It should be comfortable, neither too tight nor too loose.
* Buy a helmet from an authorised dealer only. Never buy it from street side vendors
* Insist on a bill and a warranty card.

Treating your helmet.

To make optimum use of your helmet, treat it with care. The easy tips given here can help you use your helmet well.

* Get your helmet some fresh air everyday and avoid foul odours.
* Keep your helmet clean.
* Check if the straps are not worn out.
* If your helmet has faced an impact, buy a new one.
* Avoid pressing the inner lining of the helmet because it can impair its capacity to bear pressures.
* Avoid stuffing things in your helmet. It is not a carry bag.
* Take care not to drop your helmet as it might create dents on it.
* Keep it away from children.
* Change your helmet every two to three years.


Motorcycle riders are generally young and often sole bread winners of the family. Every time somebody succumbs to an accident, a country loses precious life. A family may lose an entire support system. Beyond economical reasons, there are also emotional threads tied to every individual's life. All you need to do to prevent this is, wear a helmet!

Myths n Facts

Myth: Helmets Break Necks
Fact: It seems logical—you put more weight out there on the end of your neck and when you get thrown off the bike, that extra weight will create more pendulum force on your neck. Turns out, it doesn't work that way. In fact, the energy-absorbing qualities of a helmet also absorb the energy that breaks riders' necks in impacts. Studies show that helmeted motorcyclists actually suffer fewer neck injuries when they crash compared to riders who crash without helmets.

Myth: Helmets Block Your Ability to See or Hear Danger
Fact: The thing you learn when you dig into the research is that riders who use helmets crash less frequently than those who don't. Maybe that happens because motorcyclists who decide to wear helmets have a better or more realistic attitude about riding. Maybe it's because putting on a helmet is a reminder that what you are about to do can be dangerous and the act of accepting protection puts you in the right mindset. Maybe it's because a helmet provides eye protection and cuts down wind noise so you can actually see and hear better. Maybe its because, by cutting wind pressure and noise, a helmet reduces fatigue. Whatever the reasons, wearing a helmet clearly does not increase a motorcyclist's risk of having an accident and wearing one correlates to reduced likelihood of an accident.

Myth: A Helmet Won't Help in Most Crashes
Fact: People look at the seemingly low impact speeds used in motorcycle-helmet testing and assume that if you are going faster than that, the helmet will no longer be up to the job. That ignores a few critical facts:

* Most accidents happen at relatively low speeds.
* Most of the impact energy is usually vertical—the distance your head falls until it hits.
* Helmets (or at least helmets that meet standards) perform spectacular life-saving feats at impact speeds far above those used in testing.
* When a helmeted rider suffers a fatal head injury, it frequently doesn't matter, because, to hit hard enough to sustain that fatal injury, he sustained multiple additional fatal injuries to other parts of his body. In other words, the fact that the helmet didn't prevent the head injury was of no consequence.
* The numbers clearly say that riders using helmets simply survive crashes more successfully than those without them.

Myth: A Helmet Will Leave You Brain Damaged in an Crash When You Would Have Simply Died
Fact: Of course that's possible—your helmet attenuates the impact energy enough to keep the injury from being fatal but not enough to keep all of your eggs from getting scrambled. However, that's rare, and if you hit that hard, you are likely to get killed by some other injury. It's actually the un-helmeted rider who is likely to cross from animal to vegetable kingdom, and often from a relatively minor impact that would have damaged nothing but his ego if he'd been wearing a helmet.

Myth: Helmets are just foam hats and foam isn’t going to protect your head.
Fact: EPS (Expanded Polystyrene Foam), the material used in helmets, car bumpers, and packaging materials is designed to absorb impact, which is what it does. Hint: Look at how fragile eggs are packaged in many areas. Any time you see someone using the "foam hat" shtick in an effort to convince someone that helmets don't work because, you know, they're just made out of "foam," it's an excellent indication that they're about to lie again. They have utter contempt for the concepts of facts, logic, science, and statistics because in contradicts what they want, but know isn't, true. There's an easy way to test their beliefs. Tell them you're going to throw a ten pound chunk of concrete at their head at 14MPH and ask if they'd like to put on a "foam hat" or not.

If you're in a vehicle crash and your airbag deploys, and nylon and nitrogen save your life do you claim that it's "magic nitrogen?" Or magic nylon. How could some gas and nylon possibly protect you? Oh wait, in a 60mph head-on crash, you'd still be dead even with an airbag, so clearly air bags are under-designed for the forces involved and are hence worthless. In fact the mere presence of air bags in cars has reduced the number of cars sold as people give up driving--just look at car sales figures for the last two years.

The "magic foam" and "foam hat" shtick are used by those that either unintentionally uninformed or intentionally dishonest, with the latter being more probable. No doubt they really do understand why EPS foam is used in a plethora of products, including helmets, where the need for impact protection and light weight are key requirements. They've lost the argument based on statistical and scientific fact, so being smarmy is their only choice.

Myth: I will lose hair and get bald.
Fact: This is totally baseless, infact wearing a helmet might even prevent hairfall as your hair are not exposed to dirt and other extremes. In any case living with few hair is better than being dead isn't it?

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Helmets are SAFE not FUN but the fun will be over if you don't wear one. Wear Helmets : Only thing that would save you in bad times.