"Ken Prager" wrote in message
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gwhite wrote:
Good thing he was wearing a helmet.

No, if he hadn't been wearing a helmet, he would've been more
careful
and wouldn't have crashed. Crashes were almost unheard of in
professional cycling before rules were introduced requiring
the use of
helmets.


Boy, talk about pulling something out of one's ass!

Like, does the name Casartelli ring a bell?

On the flip side, the recent death of a helmeted racer here in
Portland, Or. shows that a helmet is not a free pass to
immortality. http://tinyurl.com/7pefv I raced that course for
years without so much as a close call. The finish is so wide and
the set-up is so long that there is rarely a mishap. This poor
guy just got in the wrong place and bit it going full blast with
a helmet on. -- Jay Beattie.