My helmet may have just saved my life today. I was making a very slow but sharp turn on a concrete boardwalk this morning that was slick from the fog. I didn't know that until it was too late. I may have been going about 2-3 km/hour when the rear wheel went out from under me. I fell heavily onto my left side and my head bounced up and down at least twice. I got up within a minute but my head felt really woozy. The impact was hard enough that my visor flew off four feet into the grass!

If I hadn't had my helmet on (impact was all on the left side) I wouldn't be typing this right now because I'd be in the hospital or morgue.

The anti-helmet brigade can bleat on all they want but, hey, Darwin will sort it all out.