09-22-2012, 11:41 PM
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Turn it up!
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Music City
Posts: 9,293
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Originally Posted by Oldfart
Wind through the hair, bugs in your eyes, the feeling of freedom.
They made it compulsory in Oz, about 3 weeks before I stacked my bike.
Without the skid-lid, I'd have been at best badly injured, at worst dead.
Shortest life of a helmet I know of.
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This is, I believe, the best argument for the helmet. Like with seat belts in cars, it's not the high-speed crackup that would kill you either way, but for the avoidable crippling injuries that can occur even at very low speeds. EG, about 30 yrs ago, if my wife & I had both had been belted when she didn't see the guy wire, she might have still have normal feeling in her lower lip, & I might be able to breathe more normally today.
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