Glad I wear a helmet...

[Photoflygirl]

Took a spill off my bike today. Veered too far right to miss a tree branch hanging over the sidewalk...went off the sidewalk and fell left. Hit my head, wrist and hip, nothing broken, ct scan said my head was okay. Broke my helmet in five places, four cracked all the way through the foam. I always wear my helmet. This is my first fall as an adult, kinda scary, not looking forward to tomorrow's soreness! My body is saying...ARE YOU STUPID?!!!

Seriously, keeping the helmet to hopefully convince some kids/parents to wear helmets. Would probably be in ICU right now if I didn't wear a helmet.

[OakLeaf]

I'm glad you wear a helmet, too!!!

If you have a good relationship with your LBS, you might consider letting them have your old helmet for just the purpose you describe - it'll reach more people there. My LBS still has the helmet I crashed in 22 years ago.


ETA: Giro has a crash replacement program, though they're not very specific about it. http://www.giro.com/en-us/support/faqs/

[Photoflygirl]

I'm glad you wear a helmet, too!!!

If you have a good relationship with your LBS, you might consider letting them have your old helmet for just the purpose you describe - it'll reach more people there. My LBS still has the helmet I crashed in 22 years ago.

Great idea. I haven't heard of any bicycle outreach to kids in our city, so the LBS would be a good place for it to be. I will miss it, it was a cute, pink, surfer print on it.

[Miranda]

I still have my helmet from my crash a couple months ago. Blood stain covered and all (there was more damage shown than the one pic posted). http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...=century+crash

Pics say a lot too if you put them up to show & tell for the cause. I know cyclist that do not wear them from the gym. I tried to tell them the same thing. If it were not for my helmet, I would be the same (or around at all). I never ride without mine as well.

I think until you crash a helmet like this, you never think much of it. Putting your helmet on is just a routine thing. Without a lot of deep thought of what it is for. Post crash, I will never think or feel the same when I put in on before a ride.

Fyi, if you don't already know this... if your helmet is a Giro they offer a 20% discount for crash replacement. You do not have to send the actual helmet in. Just call w/the info that is inside it. No exchanges when ordered directly from Giro w/discount. Just be sure what you order is what you want/fits.

People who do not wear them.... I just really really don't get it.

Glad you are ok to post to us about it.

Miranda

[owlice]

My body is saying...ARE YOU STUPID?!!!

And I hope you answered back: I WEAR A HELMET!! MEANS I'M SMART!!!

As OakLeaf said, I'm glad you wear a helmet, too! And I'm glad that's the only thing that's broken, even though it's pink and has a surfer print on it!

I hope you heal quickly and aren't too sore tomorrow.

[blackhillsbiker]

I cracked and mashed in the side of mine in my recent adventure. I'll never even consider riding without one after that. Glad you're ok! Bruised and sore goes away. Traumatic Brain Injury does not.

Deb

[Aquila]

I'm glad you weren't hurt worse! Helmets are easy to replace, brains, not so much!

[jobob]

Yep.

[MartianDestiny]

Great idea. I haven't heard of any bicycle outreach to kids in our city, so the LBS would be a good place for it to be. I will miss it, it was a cute, pink, surfer print on it.

I think Giro still makes the Skyla in the pink/goldish flower print. You may be able to find an identical replacement.

Glad you are ok!

[Bike Chick]

I join the rest......I'm glad you wore your helmet. My crash helmet is in the LBS also for all to view who don't think they need a helmet....and it's not just children, there are a lot of adults who don't think they need to wear one either. My crash made me a firm believer and I won't even think of getting on my bike without it. By the way, Trek replaced my helmet---free of charge. If yours is a trek, you might want to write the company and send them pics. You might get a new helmet.

[zoom-zoom]

I join the rest......I'm glad you wore your helmet. My crash helmet is in the LBS also for all to view who don't think they need a helmet....and it's not just children, there are a lot of adults who don't think they need to wear one either. My crash made me a firm believer and I won't even think of getting on my bike without it. By the way, Trek replaced my helmet---free of charge. If yours is a trek, you might want to write the company and send them pics. You might get a new helmet.

Drives me nuts when I see families out riding and the kids have helmets, but not the parents. All this tells kids is that adults never make mistakes or are prone to accidents. And if such a situation were to arise those kids could end up losing a parent right before their eyes. Why would anyone ever take such a potentially tragic risk?

So glad your helmet did its job today!

[Tri Girl]

Whew- glad you are OK!

[marni]

my cracked helmet bears witness to the fact that I too am glad I wear a helmet. Today, for whatever reason, I took a header ooff my bike coming off of a bridge and knocked myself unconcious. I didn't come to until the ambulance thhat my friend called, arrived and shifted me to a back board. I didn't see the helmet again until 4 hours later when my dhh showed up to pick me up from the ER after picking up my bike and gear from my friends house where her husband, who had driven out to pick her uup, had it.

4 hours and 33 stitches later I left the ER with a huge contussion on my right cheek and forehead/ eyebrow, about a square foot of sking scraped off my hip, my upper and lower right arm, my righ shoulder, and both knees. It was only then after checking out the bike, that I examined the helmet and noticed three full cracks through the foam liningand the plastic shell. Fortunately my bike is in better condition with just some problems on the rear brakes and no new paint damage or cracks, at least as far as I can tell. My special, transition, prescription lense riding glasses however are toast.

I will be off the bike and out of the gym for a week until the stitches are out and the Doctor apprroves the the other bumps and burises, and until the bike has been fully checked out.

Two years ago when I fell and broke my ribs and did similar damage to my old helmet, I actually used to out to the schools and do a safety talk invoving dropping a raw egg onto a table from my cracked helmet and making comparisons to my brain.

It's beginning to feel like November is not a good biking month for me.

marni

[IvonaDestroi]

Last week I finnally convinced myself that I wont look THAT stupid with a helmet on... so I ordered one... it's coming on tuesday in the mail. I got the bern helmet with the cute plaid insert thing. All it took was for my LBS to actually start carrying these cute little helmets for me to realize 'well I don't have to look like a dork...(no offense to those of you with fully functioning logic, unlike mine)...those are actually alright looking...'

But seriously I feel like an *** not wearing one for as long as I have been. I'm very very lucky. Last year that was me on the picture to the left. knock on wood till tuesday... So if anyone, like myself, who hates looking unfashionable has also been avoiding the dreaded bike dork look, check out these ones, they're actually cute!!! And the liners are interchangable, they also have little visors for the summer and a variety of prints.

http://www.bernunlimited.com/index.html


word of warning: some models look exactly alike but one will only qualify as a 'hard hat' legally while others meet the CPSC standard for helmets. I believe the "brighton" is the hard hat one.

I am glad you were wearing a helmet too! And I am glad that I will be wearing one now as well

[cylegoddess]

I think helmets look cool! Kinda like space gear.
I have often wished I had worn one, for daily mishaps , like yesterday when a auto glass door failed to open for me, when I was tired and still not awake. OUCH.