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From: paulson@hplabsc.UUCP (Anne Paulson)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Jeff Sargent's article
Message-ID: <1405@hplabsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 12:32:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 29 12:32:11 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Oct-83 13:39:18 EDT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
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Jeff, if you really wanted to minimize your risk of death while riding
your bike, you'd buy a helmet and put a light on your bike.  

I too was reluctant to buy a helmet.  Then one day a friend of mine had
an accident while riding her bike;  she tried to go over a crack in the
pavement at a too small angle, her wheel caught in the crack and she
fell and hit her head.  Despite the fact that she'd been going very slowly,
she was concussed.  She got a bad headache and *was unable to remember what
she'd done that day or where she was going*.  When I heard the story, I
thought to myself "I'm not having any accident mess with MY brain- better
get a helmet".  I was damn glad I had, a month later, when I panic-stopped on
a steep downhill, went over my handlebars and bounced on the top of my head.
I walked away from the crash.  If I hadn't been wearing my helmet I'd 
probably have been carried away with a sheet over my face.

GET HELMETS!  WEAR THEM!  There are too few hackers already.

Anne ("Bicyclists without helmets?  
      Just think of it as evolution in action") Paulson

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