On Mon, 08 May 2006 06:15:09 -0700, NYC XYZ wrote:

Anyway, I'm reading the manual -- am I the only guy who likes reading
manuals with his cereal??

You're supposed to read the cereal box.

Are we supposed to replace our helmets every year or two, even if they
aren't banged up, simply due to, I dunno, UV-induced deterioration of
the styrofoam's molecular structure???

The helmet manufacturers would love you to think that. For me, it's so
hard to get one that fits that I wear it until the straps decompose.
Which, last time, was only a couple years.

--

David L. Johnson

__o | "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored
_`\(,_ | by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." --Ralph Waldo
(_)/ (_) | Emerson