WANTED: Cracked, Crashed, Smashed Helmets..

[Eden]

I'm going to have to say its likely something else... the first two times I actually uploaded the image to the TE website, so it should be stored on the server here... I usually do small images this way. The third I tried to link to the image from my personal site, so that one could be in the cache, but I'm thinking there must be something up with the image itself. I think I'll try to resave it.
trying with a gif instead of a jpg... (the colors are brighter in other formats..)

[Fredwina]

sucess!

[Running Mommy]

Oh yeah! I LIKE that!!! Can I steal it? can I, can I (asks the excited kid)???

Oh- and THANKS EDEN!!! I got my first helmet today. My husband who is out of town 90% of the time had no idea what I was up to. He was like "what do you mean you just got your first cracked helmet??"... Actually I think he thinks I'M CRACKED sometimes!! lol... His wife and her hair brained schemes...
But this one is going to help save some kids lives, so it's important.
I yelled at a total of EIGHT kids today on my one hour ride about not having helmets on. I think I'm becoming known as the helmet nazi! lol

[Running Mommy]

I've got another squished helmet in the arsenal. And she wrote a cool story to the kids. I can't wait to share it with them!!
Thanks carolyn!

[trekin']

I'm glad it got there safely...the post office guy kind of lobbed it into the bin when I mailed it, and I got a mental image of you opening the box with the helmet in a million pieces, and you thinking, "how did that woman survive that crash?!?"

I wish you much success with your project!

[oldbikah]

I would be glad to send my cracked helmet to you (no postage refund needed) if it convinces kids to be safe! My recent crash was not nearly as dramatic as many described above but was still potentially dangerous.

I wrote briefly about it in a recent thread: ( I was riding into a seasonally closed rest area near where I live, one where the wire which holds warning signs has been sagging on the ground and where I have been riding over the wire where it is on the ground. You know what's coming---yup, I wasn't paying attention to my turning radius and hit the wire where it was about 10 inches off the ground---instant endo, cracked helmet, road rash on knees and head, and stiff neck, but otherwise OK. The price of stupidity and lack of attention! )

So pm your address to me.

[Batbike]

I have a cracked helmet and I have photos of cracked helmet. To start, I can send you photos because I MAY need helmet as evidence for a "hope not to happen" court case. Once any possible litagation is over, I can send you helmet.

The helmet is not dramatically cracked, but it is cracked in several places. Better it than my head. Helmet crashed on May 19, 2007. Sample photo attached. Others available. Let me know -- you can PM me.

[Batbike]

photo of helmet ...

[kabewyou]

I think what you are doing and the name for it are great!!! Part of the message might be that helmets are not only for bicycling; had an experience with my son's friend on roller blades. He told me that his parents never made him wear a helmet while roller blading, I told him if he was going with me, he was. So, he put it on and did not hook the strap, because it 'hurt'. I adjusted it and told him he had to deal with wearing it correctly or not roller blade when he was with me. He and my son started down the hill, he flipped back, landed on the back of his head and shattered the helmet. His head was just a bit bruised. Later that day, his mom stopped by, gave me a big thanks and money to get him a really good helmut that he would now be wearing anytime he went roller blading.