Originally Posted by Red Baron
Down I went. I was STUNNED as to how hard my helmet hit the concrete....I was probably only going 5-7 mph but I sure hit the driveway hard.
A fellow BikeForums member lost a close friend, who was a very experienced cyclist, in a low-speed crash. Helmetless, he hit pavement and was killed.
I have hit my helmet against pavement three times. Once hard and head-on, once a side-fall bounce, the third was a 2 mph. slip in the sand. The head-on crash might have cost me my abstract thinking abilities.