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I wear a full face bmx helmet all the time and always have when on my outdoor cycling journeys for three reasons 1. it protects my entire head from any trauma and bashing on the floor, it protects my entire face not just head, prevents injury to my chin or mouth. 2. it is mainly because of my bmx history but i always ride a full sized 26 inch wheel, 18 inch frame fully rigid mountain bike and have always found full face helemts more logical, functionable and comfortable becuase im used of them. i hate the typical road cycling helemts that protect absolutely nothing. full face bmx and mountain bike helmets protect everything and are safer. 3. if you ever have anyone try to punch or kick you in head while your wearing your helmet it absorbs most impact and i barely feel any strike. it prevents any palm strikes or uppercuts to chin or jaw because ive got a big guard in front of my jaw. actually happened a few times and it should always be left on if you ever get into a fist fight with any aggressive driver who gets out to attack after he gets aggressive with you or random little shit who tries to attack you while your on your bike and if he attempts to hit your head and manages to hit you before you can block his strike and grab his arm and push him away and he does hit to head or cheek or jaw then your not gonna feel it. ive had one or two fights with a gang of two or more attackers trying to get my bike from me and ive had to defend my self with martial arts having the full face helmet protecting every part of my face helped alot and becuase i furily tested this out with my students and i even head butted one little shit with the beak of the helmet was really effective it caused his nose to bleed. sorry to go into a fighting im a trained martial arts instructor but its effective for a rare fight situation if you have to resort to self defense if you couldnt just ride away before they approach you and make an attempt to hit. alot of people stop the bike with their hands which you can use to grab and bend the wrist back or bend the arm in a lock and hit them and then just ride off. but the full face helmet has many many advantages over just a normal road cycling helmet, it has the protection of a motorcycle helmet, makes you feel safer and is actually more comfortable than people think you just have to get the right helmet and actually get the right most comfortable padding that works for you and makes you feel comfortable and the right adjustments and size. also you can wear proper mountain bike goggles that look like ski goggles to protect eyes better from high winds and any mud or flies god damn annoying flies, glasses do nothing. then can just move the goggles up when you dont want to wear them and still have them strapped around the helmet. also i really really advice sap gloves with the padded metal knuckles and metal pad back of hands that motor cyclist and mountain bikers and bmx wear much much more protection than any road cycling gloves and stops your knuckles from been scraped and even great for fights haha sorry. but thats the best advice for why you should get and wear a full face helmet for cycling. but hey i am mainly cycling mountain bike trails, around parks and bmx tracks and use side roads to get every where dont really cycle down main highways with traffic lights unless i realy realy have to, most of time on a super super busy high way ill just get off my bike and walk with it or cycle on grass cant be stopped for cycling on grass not on the path you just ride slower and use your brakes to slow down when pedestrains are near by and in my experience police have never had an issue with me cycling on the patches of grass on the side of the pathways. i really wish in uk theyd invest in alot more cycling lanes they are getting there but there is still alot of improvements to be made to path cycle ways and road cycle ways and they need to do something about pedestrains walking in cycle ways nothing more annoying than having to ring your bell excessively and shout at them to get out the way. and also ive never had a road bicycle i dont like them think the wheel and tyre is far to thin, the frame is weird and the curved back handle bars and the way your so bent over hate it personally and hate the form fitting cycling wear. but hey im mainly a mountain biker and bmxer and mainly entirely use side roads to get to parks and grassy parts or cycle ways on highways, parks and bike trails is where i mainly cycle so what do i know about road cycling ill never get a road bike always mountain bikes for me so completely different bicycles and its just my person preference and im not a road bycicle fan. prefer the raw hardcore mountain biking experience and the option to go off road trails whenever i want which is all ways the preference.