yet another reason to always wear a helmet
10-30-04, 01:06 PM
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yet another reason to always wear a helmet
https://pressherald.mainetoday.com/ne...chitwood.shtml
here's one to send around to your friends that never seem to use a helmet. luckily, it wasn't all that bad...
t
here's one to send around to your friends that never seem to use a helmet. luckily, it wasn't all that bad...
t
11-02-04, 06:39 PM
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After reading the article, it reinforces my decision not to wear a helmet. If the chief had been wearing a helmet there is a very good chance he would be paralyzed now. As it is, he has cuts, but is otherwise fine.
11-02-04, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Downhill Racer
After reading the article, it reinforces my decision not to wear a helmet. If the chief had been wearing a helmet there is a very good chance he would be paralyzed now. As it is, he has cuts, but is otherwise fine.
Not sure how you get that out of reading the article but to each his own. I for one will always wear a helmet.
11-02-04, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Downhill Racer
After reading the article, it reinforces my decision not to wear a helmet. If the chief had been wearing a helmet there is a very good chance he would be paralyzed now. As it is, he has cuts, but is otherwise fine.
yeah.......right............you sure you haven't already fallen on your head?
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11-02-04, 06:59 PM
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I think he was being sarcastic, or trying to be funny.
The article was STUPID... A guy who preaches always wearing a helmet, has the worst crash that he has ever had while NOT wearing a helmet....and does not have any injuries that a helmet would have prevented...and still tries to sell it as a story reinforceing the need to always wear a helmet.
I always wear a helmet.
The article was STUPID... A guy who preaches always wearing a helmet, has the worst crash that he has ever had while NOT wearing a helmet....and does not have any injuries that a helmet would have prevented...and still tries to sell it as a story reinforceing the need to always wear a helmet.
I always wear a helmet.
11-02-04, 07:00 PM
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DR was being sarcastic. A helmet would not have helped in this cause since the guy landed on his face... unless we're advocating wearing a full-face helmet?
11-02-04, 08:31 PM
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When I was in college I rode to class w/o a helmet one day, and got plowed by a car while riding thru the crosswalk. Witnesses (who later scattered before I came to my senses) said I just flew. I knocked over 3 or 4 parked motorcycles with my body and landed half on the sidewalk, half in street. I broke my wrist and my back hurt for a month, and I developed a temporary phobia of crosswalks (seriously).
Anyway, I lucked out that it was not my head I landed on, and have always worn a helmet since.
Anyway, I lucked out that it was not my head I landed on, and have always worn a helmet since.
11-02-04, 10:14 PM
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Helmets save lives... it did mine.
I was hit my a motorcycle that ran a red and split my helmet but caused me no head injuries... no helmet and I would not know.
I was hit my a motorcycle that ran a red and split my helmet but caused me no head injuries... no helmet and I would not know.
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