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12-22-14 | 04:09 PM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by CliffordK

I need to find my "Skid-Lid". It took lots of years of abuse. I don't know if I ever crashed in it, but they weren't made to be one bump and done..

That because the Skid-Lid shared more in common with the leather hairnet in the video. They weren't meant to absorb impact but served more as a place to hold the shattered pieces of your skull so that clean up was easier

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