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Bike Helmets
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01/22/18 05:03 PM
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butch sanders
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do y'all wear helmets when you ride?
when i would ride with my dog i wore helmet - elbow pads & knee pads
but not anything when riding solo
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Re: Bike Helmets
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01/22/18 06:28 PM
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Never did as a kid...always do as an adult no matter how far or where I'm riding.
Grateful for every sunrise and sunset I get to witness. - Jason
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Re: Bike Helmets
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01/22/18 06:44 PM
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I did not as a kid, but always as an adult. I crashed more as a kid, but I was rubber back then. It hurt, but I bounced back.
Now, the bounces is minimal, and things break.
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01/22/18 07:06 PM
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If I'm going on ride I will, if I'm tinkering on the bike, and only riding 50 or yards at a time nah. I've got my kids on board as well, they nearly always ask for their helmets if they get on their bikes.
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01/22/18 07:07 PM
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I wear them all the time.
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Re: Bike Helmets
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01/22/18 07:15 PM
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I did not as a kid, but always as an adult. I crashed more as a kid, but I was rubber back then. It hurt, but I bounced back.
Now, the bounces is minimal, and things break.
...------ Bounce...yes there's that! AND the road rash from the bouncing healed a lot faster when I was a kid too! Can't afford a head injury either so good insurance.
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Re: Bike Helmets
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01/22/18 07:19 PM
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Except mine had a banana seat without a sissy bar.
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Re: Bike Helmets
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01/23/18 03:19 PM
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butch sanders
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i probably need to wear it i am on my 4th concussion or it could be 5th i can't remember
1 of them happened on the bike when i turned sharp on slick asphalt i was out for a while thats when i got the pads
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01/23/18 06:00 PM
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For darn sure. Never without. Only got one brain.
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Open your eyes & look within, are you satisfied with the life youre living.
No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.
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Re: Bike Helmets
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01/23/18 07:31 PM
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There's just too many variables out there that could cause a crash, and there's too many stories showing helmets do protect your dome to not wear one. Bones and scrapes heal relatively quick, head injuries not so much.
Also, alot of people really don't want to ride with someone not wearing one. I know they're required on every organized ride I've ever done.
I'll tell ya the one that's done me in twice now, getting off the sidewalk into the grass which is lower, then trying to get back on the sidewalk and eating it. Thankfully I've been going somewhat slow on both.
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01/24/18 03:07 AM
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I'll tell ya the one that's done me in twice now, getting off the sidewalk into the grass which is lower, then trying to get back on the sidewalk and eating it. Thankfully I've been going somewhat slow on both.
That happened to me this summer. Went down fast and head hit concrete pretty hard. It would have sucked without the helmet. Was going about 15 mph when it happened.
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01/31/18 11:56 AM
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I do 99% of the time. Only under very limited circumstances will I take it off. Even then it's for a short time.
Had a fall so severe it partially detached my retina and destroyed the helmet.
I know a guy who refuses to wear one. Her thinks he's too cool to fall. Says they won't help anyway.
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01/31/18 02:13 PM
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butch sanders
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I do 99% of the time. Only under very limited circumstances will I take it off. Even then it's for a short time.
Had a fall so severe it partially detached my retina and destroyed the helmet.
I know a guy who refuses to wear one. Her thinks he's too cool to fall. Says they won't help anyway.
wow glad your ok & the cool factor is an issue i hate to admit
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01/31/18 02:19 PM
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I do 99% of the time. Only under very limited circumstances will I take it off. Even then it's for a short time.
Had a fall so severe it partially detached my retina and destroyed the helmet.
I know a guy who refuses to wear one. Her thinks he's too cool to fall. Says they won't help anyway.
You were lucky sounds like. Glad you did not have any further damage or long term issues. For the guy who doesn't wear one - seat belts are stupid, car seats will not protect children, hard hats and steel toes are a waste of money, FR clothing doesn't work, and suppositories are taken orally. I think I know this guy... The "cool" factor is an excuse. Shop around....there are some slick looking lids that are highly rated to protect your brain pan. What is not cool is being in a wheel chair while his significant other feeds him baby food...or worse yet dead.
Grateful for every sunrise and sunset I get to witness. - Jason
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Re: Bike Helmets
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01/31/18 06:22 PM
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butch sanders
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yeah I have known 3 people that had major head injuries from bicycles
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