Hint back at you, you need the helmet because you aren't Lance Armstrong or Evel Knievel. The helmet isn't for speed, it's mostly for protection. And that protection is needed even at the speeds amateurs attain.
But wearing one of the tear-drop, speedy looking helmets on a cruise to the malt-shop does make you look like a doofus.
“Hint back at you, you need the helmet because you aren’t Lance Armstrong or Evel Knievel. The helmet isn’t for speed, it’s mostly for protection.”
I have to agree.
Every day I think I should have some kind of hard hat, such as the one I wore when ridding horses.
I would not be caught dead in one of those fruity bicycle helmets, even though I might be one day.
Where I live, there are no stop lights or even stop signs.
At four ways, It is catch as catch can.
After dark is quite a fright, with poor street lighting.
I do not worry so much about cars as I do other bicycles, pedestrians and tricycle cabs, which also have no lights.