Topic: Helmets?

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

They could have enlisted Quasimodo as the monkey.  He had a built-in shoulder slider.

[Bob Wessner]

Sheer lunacy . . . .

Right up there with cordless bungee jumping. 

[Retro Rocket]

Sheer lunacy . . . .

Right up there with cordless bungee jumping. 

Seek and ye shall find....

[PeWe]

I beg to differ Scott, the problem with full face helmets is that if you land on your face with an open face helmet, your face takes the impact, whereas with a full face helmet the rigid chin guard transfers the impact forces to your neck.

When we went from open face helmets to full face helmets in the 1970's, the incidence of paralysis or death from broken necks went up exponentially, to the point where Bell helmets couldn't get public liability insurance, and almost stopped manufacturing full face helmets.

It's still a problem now, but once again, it's a risk most riders would probably take, as opposed to sliding down the road on their faces. I actually like wearing my open face helmet, but I'm not pretty..... 

A guy at my job crashed on a bicycle a month ago when bicycling. Face in tarmac, most of the front teeth lost, jaw(s) broken and tongue bitten off with 1" or so...
I do not know if he has returned to Sweden yet since this happened on Gran Canaria (Canarian Islands). His family had to go back home without hime when he stayed in Hospital.

My current motorcycle helmet is the best one I have ever had tried and owned, Schuberth C3 Pro (flip-up). It cost a lot but worth the money.
Schuberth has open helmets too, that model look as safe as an open helmet can.
http://www.schuberth.com/en/products/motorbikes/helmets.html

[Terry in Australia]

That must have been one hell of a bicycle crash! I fell off a racing bicycle (no helmets back then) and took the skin off my chin and the tip of my nose, not to mention my knees, elbows and the palms of my hands, I was picking little stones out of my skin for years. Luckily I didn't break anything, except my desire to ride bicycles, they really are horrible dangerous things.....

[70CB750]

My dad was 62  years old and got a piece of steel in his front wheel riding to work on his bicycle.  Landed on his chin, broke it, lost some teeth, it was pretty massive.  Anyway he got up, and took his bicycle to work by tramway, walks in and says I think I need help - in that time he could see only little bit from one eye because he swollen so bad.  Tough old bird

I told him other old farts get run over by a car and he almost kills himself on a bicycle, in his age.  They put him back together and he still rides bicycle, 82 years old now.

That must have been one hell of a bicycle crash! I fell off a racing bicycle (no helmets back then) and took the skin off my chin and the tip of my nose, not to mention my knees, elbows and the palms of my hands, I was picking little stones out of my skin for years. Luckily I didn't break anything, except my desire to ride bicycles, they really are horrible dangerous things.....