singletrackmind "For the rest it's Darwin. Too bad it's their kids they're using as bait for natural selection. "

as they say, no brain, no pain.

What's unfortunate is accidents make the news, parents use that as an argument that the kids should not ride, in most cases the accident would not have been fatal if the rider had a brain lid.

As others have said it's not just the kids. I took a call at work the other day from a gal in her 80's, not sure how the subject came up but her husband is a bay area rider. She said he never wore a helmet. 80+ years young and he'd be riding still but took a fall and suffered a fatal head injury.

On the other hand our family friend Bill McGee was wearing a lid when he had just a freak accident. 79, a very experienced rider he was decending, either he touched a wheel in front of him or vice versa, he knew what to do then so did the other rider, they should never have fallen but they did. His buddy got scrapes, Bill died. He was an incredible guy.


http://www.peaceandjusticesonomaco.org/billmcgee.html