I've had two serious motorcycle incidents where a helmet protected me.
One: I fell off at slow speeds going round a corner, there was oil on the road, no ones fault, banged my head quite hard but was otherwise fine.
Two: On a motorway at ~65MPH a fucking prick threw a coke can out of his car which quickly decelerated and hit my visor. The visor cracked but maintained it's integrity and saved at least my nose and at most my life.
Please wear a full helmet, there are a lot of pricks in the world.
PS: I'm swearing in this post so you get the idea that 15 years later I still get really angry at this idiot.
15 years ago while cruising along a country road at 65 mph, I very clearly remember seeing, for a flash of a second, the point of a beak of a small bird as it hit my visor right in front of my left eye.
Without a visor (or helmet), I would have been blinded for sure.
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I've had two serious motorcycle incidents where a helmet protected me.
One: I fell off at slow speeds going round a corner, there was oil on the road, no ones fault, banged my head quite hard but was otherwise fine.
Two: On a motorway at ~65MPH a fucking prick threw a coke can out of his car which quickly decelerated and hit my visor. The visor cracked but maintained it's integrity and saved at least my nose and at most my life.
Please wear a full helmet, there are a lot of pricks in the world.
PS: I'm swearing in this post so you get the idea that 15 years later I still get really angry at this idiot.
I can sympathise.
15 years ago while cruising along a country road at 65 mph, I very clearly remember seeing, for a flash of a second, the point of a beak of a small bird as it hit my visor right in front of my left eye.
Without a visor (or helmet), I would have been blinded for sure.