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Posted by Dave on July 20, 2007, 3:34 pm
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>
> Yesss, the good thing about protective gear is that wearing it will allow
> you to have an open casket. I was talking to an Angeles Forest ranger a
> few weeks ago. he told me it made little difference what the canyon racers
> wear up there. The outcome was always the same. Death, or compound
> fractures, discovered when the "protective gear" was cut off the
> unconscious biker.
> The protective gear may help in the first one or two bounces, but, unless
> you are trained in falling, that's about it.
>
Some would say it's a fine line between a "squid" who very very occasionally
rides without protective gear and who behaves in as "safe" a manner as
possible while doing so, and a "squid" who is an idiot with a deathwish on a
150+ hp missile on windy canyon blind curves.
> I must say, however, in the several crashes I've had, in the last 30
> years,
> I've always been grateful that I was wearing a DOT approved helmet. I have
> 20 years of them, ruined, hanging in my garage as a reminder.
>
> I did ride without a helmet, when it was cool (temperature wise), in Utah
> and Arizona.
>
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