I love my gear. Man... I mean, I never go without it. No-ho, Noway, NoSir.
Not the Dainese and Shoei, Alpine stars stuff in my garage locker...
But I wont go without a hat. Nooooway.
First thing they ask you in the ER.. Every time...
(pretty nurse
" DIJA havA HeLmIETSZ on?"
Bicycles track horribly with their same size front /rear wheel dimensions and short wheelbase. Dont let go of the bars when you need be steering.. you can pretty much ride around town on a Rocketbike like a Gxxr or a ZedEx, without touching the ground or the bars ( leaning to steer, hands off... ).. but you cannot do tha on a off road bicycle designed front end, rifing on the road.
The bar will flop.
If you think you dont need a helmet, you have not enough miles under you. Silly, and stupid, and possibly soon to be drooling on the bib the nurse gave you for the day.
Chalo said:
Some of us have made it much longer with no helmet at all, by employing the more reliable protection of not riding foolishly.
Lol..... great logic there. Gary Busey agrees with you 100%.
One love Chalo, Pls wear a hat. For those that love you, if not for me. Not all those that " ride foolishly" crash.. : And some of those that "ride responsibly" still do crash. There are well known published stats you should follow, not "the level of foolishness"... You can not control the other fools (on the road
you know.. They will be there no matter what.
I got a (best) friend who thinks the same as you: He just got a Gixxer1K. I am going to force him to get a good hat and wear it. Even if I have to go to the wife. 100%. I have another friend whom was run over by a firetruck one night on a Harley. Just pulling away from a stop sign. A F-R-O-C-K-ing full size double axle fire truck. No helmet, nowadays he tries to play it off.. but I can still see what it did to his head. Jared, he aint the same anymore.. Still dumb... but even dumber now... sorta.. (If "dumb" is a thing... IDk.. Who even said I am smart.. But I know my friend is challenged for the rest of his life doing simple things... )
( Published stats such as the "Hurt Report"
I would rather have a broken body and a straight head, than visa versa. That is my assertion that I came to when I figured teh possibilities ( of riding on the road). I have crashed at 55mph and it cost 40,000$. Plus the bike. Half a second, and half your arm is gone. Looking at that bone. Mmmmm. Ground down bone. That fast. That slow. Falling from. That fast. Done. Dont blink, you will miss it. Just riding along one min.. the next thing you know you are getting up and pieces of bike everywhere... Blink.
I have easily over 100,000 miles on two wheels on the road. Have sat at 199mph on the dash for eons on a ZX10R. It is quite quiet up there. Blasted by hundreds ( thousands? Tens of thousands.. ?) of commuters unsuspecting as they sit in their cars t 65mph sipping coffee... 6:20 in the morning on the six lanes of the Schuylkill Expressway... ( the "Sure-Kill" expressway? Lol... Philly) Like they were sitting still stopped in traffic.. I feel bad for the eardrums, for I usually ride with earplugs in... Lol. I know they still be ringing... if not... Durrrr
A football field every second and a half... speed...
When you start riding your ebike like a CBR... Pls... remember what happened to the CBR... Lol.
I never go without gloves, sleeves, and boots when I go over 20mph. It has saved me a headache or two for sure, even minor ones.
I have already sat in that room too long. Second day, you itched to get out. But you still hooked up to those machines.. vacuums still in your arm.... stents still pumping.. You can feel the staples... the morphine does not always work. Breathing through that clot tube every half an hour.
I crashed my bike really hard about a few months ago. Tore the vest, ripped my gloves, couldnt breath for a few min, (took about two months breath normally... ).. People stopped with their phones out.. Asking questions." You Ok?" " YOu need a ambulance"?
Head was fine. Head was together. I knew what to do. I knew I had to pick the bike up. I knew.. cause I had my head. Right there I thanked my helmet for being there, even though I did not scrape it upp.. my chest took the hit. Checked my bike, checked my bones, off I went. Home.
I never stopped so fast from 35mph to 0.. in five feet.. Felt that whump for a good long while.. ( still do)
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John Hinds, MCIU medical team, - " A highside is a fall from height, either feet or head, first one of the most dangerous kind of injury. "
(Watch, but, friend, only if you have the stomach for it.. There is a great section on helmets about 20:00 min in. )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsZBXlTHPCg