On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:26:53 GMT, maxo wrote in
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I've walked away from two accidents because of cheap, but effective $20
Bell helmets, and I've also had a hundred facial stitches and dental
reconstruction because I didn't wear one...

I've walked away from four accidents with varying degrees of head
injury. The two worst, one requiring sutures and one an overnight
stay in hospital and extensive facial bruising, were due to a low
doorway in an old mill, and an assault in a chilren's playground,
respectively. The ones where bikes were involved, my life was
presumably saved by my protective headgear, in the usual fashion. In
one case the headgear in question was a knitted acrylic balaclava, in
the other it was one of those old-fashioned leather racing helmets
(the bunch of bananas style) which of course are completely
ineffective except in preventing road rash on the head.

Guy
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