I am another crash victim that wouldn't be writing this if I hadn't had my helmet on. I left the road doing a 35 mph descent, hit a rock and went over the handlebars. My helmet cracked in 3 places and I suffered a mile concussion but the ER doc said my head would've split like a watermelon if I hadn't had it on.

Our lbs makes a very good helmet demo when doing their beginner rider program. They drop a cantelope on the sidewalk then take another cantelope, put it inside a helmet and drop it and it doesn't break. It gets people's attention.

Someone told me once that they call people that don't wear helmets organ donors.

I'm in the market for a new helmet myself and have been looking at new ones. It is hard to decide.