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I wish I'd have had a helmet on. I've got about an inch & a half gash through my eyebrow, road rash down the right side of my face and more contusions, abrasions and sore parts than I care to think about. I guess the worst part is how clumsy I feel now. I hadn't wiped out on a bike since I was about 8.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)a helmet, it saved me a couple of times. Hate to mention some of the clumsy stuff I've done on bicycles and even hiking.
Warpy
(111,467 posts)I started to wear a helmet in my early 30s after a friend wiped out drunk on his bicycle and helmet saved his drunk butt. He had a concussion but that hemet was split open against the curb. That would have been his skull without the helmet.
Backwoodsrider
(764 posts)I know this 1st hand.... glad you aren't hurt
whistler162
(11,155 posts)MLAA
(17,375 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,128 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Helmet might have helped, but it won't do much for a face plant.
Regardless, buy a helmet, one saved the life of a former coworker.
panader0
(25,816 posts)When I was a kid, about 16 (1966), we would skateboard when the waves
were small. I lived on Oahu and there are many steep streets. One was
nicknamed "Black Junction" because it was long and steep. The three of us went to
conquer it. Chuck made it down and I went next. Back and forth, side to side
until I was going too fast and had to just hang on as I sped down the road,
skateboard shaking. I made it. Then came Hubie. He got about half way down and
face-planted. We had to take him to the hospital (Tripler). He had road rash
all over the front of his body. Face, hands, chest, legs--ugly.
Baitball Blogger
(46,780 posts)Hope everything is superficial and you're back in the saddle soon!