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How I cracked my helmet
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How I cracked my helmet
Luigi de Guzman wrote: ... I'm not from Madison but I believe riding a bicycle on the sidewalk is legal there, unless a building abuts the sidewalk. Robert errrr...but don't most sidewalked roads have buildings on them?\ In most of the residential areas of Madison there is a lawn between the sidewalk and the houses/apartments. Outside of the downtown area, most businesses have a landscaped area between the sidewalk (where they exist) and the building and/or parking lot. Tom Sherman - Former Madison resident |
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Mark Hickey wrote in message . ..
I agree that many overstate the amount of injury their helmet may have saved - but I'd suspect not even the most ardent anti-helmet types Funny story. My Bell whatsit-Pro shell cracked and started falling apart the day I bought it. So it's been missing chunks for years. I swerved to miss a door (guy was in such a rush to get to The Beer Store that he never checked for cyclists) and braked to miss the streetcar tracks. Did I mention that this is a good way to crash ? So I did a face plant. The visor and my FitOver sunglasses and regular glasses took the force. I was too dizzy to stand, so crawled to the curb and insisted on going to the hospital to be checked. Ambulance eventually arrived, paramedic took one look at my cracked helmet with pieces missing, and said "WOW!!! That helmet probably saved your life." I didn't have the heart to contradict him. Went to the hospital. The admitting nurse took one look at the helmet and said "WOW!!! That helmet probably saved your life." When I saw the nurse-practitioner a few hours later, SHE took one look at the helmet and said, "WOW!!! That helmet ...." So I'm probably one of the statistics they cite when pointing to the benefits of wearing a helmet. Although the visor and front edge of the helmet certainly reduced the force with which my forehead hit the concrete. Almost tempted to get a full face coverage helmet, which would improve my appearance as well. would claim that I would have come away from my "interaction" without significantly more injury had I not been wearing a helmet. As it is, Yeahbut (as I said via Email)if you hadn't been wearing that helmet you wouldn't face the expense of buying a new one .... after almost two months I'm still experiencing some post-concussion Apparently concussions are cumulative, which seems like an incentive to be extra careful for a few years while your brain heals. Hope you're well soon. |
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