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Please, a bicycle helmet is not only useful if a car hits you. A bicycle helmet is also fairly inexpensive, and can be pretty comfortable.

They are basically a very easy insurance policy whose main "cost" is inconvenience.

sadly their inconvenience (and looking/feeling awkward) by far outranks the cost for me.

That's your prerogative, but let's at least not pretend they are useless just because you personally may not like them.

That may or may not be his prerogative, depending on the laws where he bikes.