Folks, My helmet saved me from serious injury!
07-03-04, 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by BiKe_GuY666
id rather die on a bike with no helmet then to die on a bike with a helmet cuz that juss shows that you didnt need it in tha first place...........im stayin wit mah point.........if you get hit by a car with or with out a helmet your gunna get seriously injured...mayb death
and if ive been riding since i wuz 5.........then how come ive only fallen while learning.....and doing a trick i just learnt?
and if ive been riding since i wuz 5.........then how come ive only fallen while learning.....and doing a trick i just learnt?
Don't bother to thank me. The improvement in your posts will be thanks enough
Originally Posted by DnvrFox
I cn tl tht u r not brn injrd by th xclnce if ur riting & splng. Sur u hvn't falln on ur hed w'out a hlmt & dnt rmbr it?
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07-09-04, 01:11 AM
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Originally Posted by operator
People like this make me wish I could reach out and stab them in the face. Spelling mistakes galore, 2 year old short form for every word possible. Who lets these kind of people on the internet?
07-09-04, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by BiKe_GuY666
I know how to spell, but when people piss me off I cant control it.
Hmm the violinist is playing a tune... ahh yes "My Heart Bleeds For You"
If you can't control yourself - perhaps you shouldn't be here.
I sincerely hope you can learn to control yourself.
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07-10-04, 05:50 AM
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Originally Posted by BiKe_GuY666
I know how to spell, but when people piss me off I cant control it.
Except for missing the apostrophe in can't, you correctly wrote the sentence.
Good job!
Seriously.
07-10-04, 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by BiKe_GuY666
If you have good skills on a bike why do u need a helmet? i dont find a need......if you get hit by a car your still gonna get hurt regardless u have a helmet or now
Skill can't save you in every potential incident that may befall you while riding. The majority of incidents that involve a cyclist and motor vehicle are not fatal in nature if one is wearing a helmet. The overwhelming majority are minor, UNLESS you are not wearing a helmet. With no helmet protection, what would have been a minor headache may become MAJOR head trauma. I used to work at the local hospital where I saw the total devastation of massive head trauma. I wish that on no one.
EDIT: Denver, now you have me triple checking my post..
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07-10-04, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by BiKe_GuY666
If you have good skills on a bike why do u need a helmet? i dont find a need......if you get hit by a car your still gonna get hurt regardless u have a helmet or now
Take my commute, I'm doing 26-28mph down the road next to 2 lanes of traffic minding my own business. Don't need much skill to go in a straight line. Fine. Ok, now a car, completely out of my control, turns into my lane and his rear bumper rams into my front wheel and I fly off onto my side at 25mph. I fall on my side, dislocate my shoulder, roll once, and slam my head directly on the curb at 20mph.
Ok, now here are two options for you:
1) Dislocated shoulder. Road rash. Broken helmet. Headache.
2) Dislocated shoulder. Road rash. No helmet. Fractured skull and losing brain fluid fast.
Please tell me you have the sense of mind to choose #2.
You are absolutely right, regardless of whether you have a helmet or not you are going to get hurt. Plus, I can also be riding along fine and fall onto an old discarded flagpole and get impaled and die, but the probability of that is MUCH lower than getting hurt in a way that involves head trauma. That's not what concerns most of us, it's how severe this "hurt" is. See, you can horribly damage a lot of your limbs like your arm, ass, legs, hands, elbow, knee, foot, etc all the way the point of failure and you can still function. You damage your brain to the point of failure and that's it; Game Over.
BTW: did you watch stage 1 of the TDF? That wreck at the last turn? One of the riders hit the deck at 30mph, landed on his head and bounced it off the pavement. Later on he was on his hands and knees stunned for a couple of minutes but managed to get back up. You tell me 10 years ago if he didn't have a helmet he wouldn't have died or been a vegetable.
07-11-04, 09:53 AM
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Helmets definitely rule my day. I crashed back on May 20th, still have no memory of May 20th or 21st, and little memory of most of the next few days. I believe I would have been dead if I wasn't wearing my helmet - even with the helmet I had a skull fracture and a brain injury. You can read more about my crash (and see a few pictures, helmet included) at the Oops! page of my website. And yes, I replaced the helmet before I even thought about remounting my bike!
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07-14-04, 03:01 PM
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Congratulations on surviving and on your recovery. It's funny how fast a crash can happen; it rarely gives you any time to react. I wonder how sprinters survive so many crashes.
