Consider if you will the concept of a 0mph fall (of the still clipped in Club Tombay style if you will) toward the side where you get snagged by something protruding from your bike limiting your ability to get a foot out to slow the fall and where nothing breaks your fall untill you land on your side and shoulder.

Now contemplate the momentum of the head falling through this arc and the ability or lack thereof of your neck muscles in keeping the head from striking the ground.

Add in an additional thought of something as insignificant as a 2" rock protruding slightly from the dirt of the trail.

Now, what do you think that rock can to to the skull either by penetrating it or by providing a solid enough surface to cause the brain to strike the inside of the skull.

A relatively inexpensive layer of decelerating foam covered with a thin shell that minimizes penetration might be a reasonable insurance policy..........eh.



I've had that fall, fortunately without injury. I wonder how many others have.