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From: beisel@trwspp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Helmet opinion
Message-ID: <413@trwspp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-May-84 15:58:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 15:58:32 1984
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My goodness! Do you not wear a seatbelt either. You seem
to forget that it is not you that will be the cause of an accident
but more likely a driver who will say "I never saw him". Any number
of things can cause an accident and result in a "header". I was
on a century about a month ago and there was a guy who did a header
onto a pile of large rocks (the kind along the ocean at a breakwall),
he had a helmet on, but is wasn't strapped on. I never got the full
details of his injury, but I know it was serious. Unfortunately it was
his fault. He was in a pace line a swerved to avoid something and hit
the seawall.

If you feel that "It will never happen to me" then by all means
don't buy a helmet. But for your sake I hope that Saturday afternoon
drunk never finds you.

	Bruce Beisel