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Probably not that bad... :ROFLMAO:Hey, I wonder if she needs an boy friend???
Probably not that bad... :ROFLMAO:Hey, I wonder if she needs an boy friend???
OUCH! Hey, I got feeling too ya know? :giggle:Probably not that bad... :ROFLMAO:
We forgive you your trespasses cause you obviously dont know the story of one of our valued members. He and his friend were hit head on by a person in an SUV. At speed. The guy on he Wing recovered faster than our member. Thanks to his Stitch and his helmet, our member is back on the road on a trike and rode to the rally. He will never be perfect. But he is here. It is not luck that two people with Gear survived a headon in the same accident. You are correct that, to rephrase, its not how fast your body parts are going, its how fast they are stopped. But without a helmet, you will never know. I saw this guy walk away from this wreck.....he had on a helmet.Above the speed of ___ mph, not even your $800 helmet will save you from the vegetable garden. My thought is that a helmet keeps a minor accident from becoming catastrophic, and the abrasion resistant gear is much the same. My delight was ripping down country roads on a hot summer day with shorts and a tee-shirt, and I've got the scars to show for riding in cotton. My first wreck as an 18 year old was to bounce off a van in a low speed collision and to fall backwards onto the asphalt. The cheap helmet spared me from coloring books for Christmas.
I will not ride without boots, gloves and jeans, and temperature permitting I will ride with the jacket. If for no other reason, my wife thinks I'm safer in blue jeans (ha!) and the armored jacket. The best armor will do nothing for bones and internal organs, but it may give the significant other a sense of security.
I recall a number of years ago, when I was a young teenager, I was out camping with a friend and her family. While she was out on the little dirt bike they had, I sat on the picnic bench reading. Some kid rudely interrupted me by losing control of his bike. He layed on the throttle, jumped the curb and just caught the crook of my elbow with the bar end on his bike. It flipped me over, pulled me off the table and drug me a couple dozen yards before he crashed. I ended up with an ambulance ride to the not so local hospital. Since i had not planned on riding, I was in shorts and a t-shirt. Who knew that one needed to be wearing ATGATT while sitting on a bench. haha The ER crew spent the better part of two hours removing sand and small bits of gravel from my arm, shoulder, upper back, leg and face. It was pretty stinking painful. Worse than childbirth. And I have 4 kids. hahahahaRoad Rash, Street Pizza, of whatever you call it, is very painful when the dirt and stones are scrubbed out! I crashed more than once racing bicycles...I'm more than happy wearing ATGATT. BB
That's a $500,000+ repro kit plane.Is that a real Mustang or a reproduction?
Judging from the pic, I believe the operative word is "was".That's a $500,000+ repro kit plane.
HOLY oop:!!! Sounds if fate had its plans all laid out for you.I recall a number of years ago, when I was a young teenager, I was out camping with a friend and her family. While she was out on the little dirt bike they had, I sat on the picnic bench reading. Some kid rudely interrupted me by losing control of his bike. He layed on the throttle, jumped the curb and just caught the crook of my elbow with the bar end on his bike. It flipped me over, pulled me off the table and drug me a couple dozen yards before he crashed. I ended up with an ambulance ride to the not so local hospital. Since i had not planned on riding, I was in shorts and a t-shirt. Who knew that one needed to be wearing ATGATT while sitting on a bench. haha The ER crew spent the better part of two hours removing sand and small bits of gravel from my arm, shoulder, upper back, leg and face. It was pretty stinking painful. Worse than childbirth. And I have 4 kids. hahahaha
I've had multiple crashes in competition road racing and had a few on our public roads and never hit my head so that is some luck however a helmet did more than likely saved my life from a large buzzard that clocked me square in the face at about 60 mph, chin left a good indentation in the chin bar had a concussion for 24 hours, buzzard dead!I will always wear a full face ,and Snell approved. Back in 2018 I went down in a lowside mid corner. I cracked a full face Arai in the area of where a modular would hinge and lost conciousness. I have no recollection of 24+ hours. No memory of the accident, first responders, ambulance ride, CAT scans, nothing. Only hazy memories of a few hours before discharge.
That helmet saved my life, at the very least I would have been a drooling vegetable without it.