I haven't posted for ages.....apart from commuting around Dublin, I haven't been on the bike in any serious way since doing the étape in France last July ! So I cycled into work tonight, a route I've done so often, but there was freezing fog and as it turned out slippy roads, so coming downhill to a bridge I touched the breaks to slow slightly and the bike just slid - I've often spoke to friends that even though I wear a helmet, I've never banged by head off a bike - well I whacked the back of my helmet full force on the road, I got up OK and the bike was a bit twisted but OK too.
The helmet is cracked, but it really saved me !!!
Lorcán.