[MENTION=256281]MattDwyerva[/MENTION] in case you didn't realize, posting in this thread is basically asking for an argument. The thread has special status as a quarantine zone for all helmet related arguments, so that they don't ruin other threads on the site.[/QUOTE]

Fair enough. I was trying to tell my story accurately, hoping to relay more than one simple message. I raced back then, not that I won often. That accident ended that, so hard to be completely calm about it. But I am grateful that it was not worse, and that in less than one year i could ride again.