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Personally I go further and always wear a full-face helmet if I'm helmeting at all. A childhood friend's father used to ride his road bike around the neighborh
by pengaru 5y ago
Personally I go further and always wear a full-face helmet if I'm helmeting at all.
A childhood friend's father used to ride his road bike around the neighborhood and one evening he mistakenly rode into a construction pit where the barricades had been stolen by neighborhood kids. He face-planted into the asphalt on the far side when the front of his bike was abruptly swallowed by the pit. His cycling lid did absolutely no good for him, had his broken jaw wired shut, eating burgers through a straw for months.
Another friend more recently had his front end wash out crossing a slightly muddy intersection riding to the googleplex via skyline. At first he thought he only suffered some rash, until days later he noticed a horizontal crack in one of his canines. Tooth struck the asphalt in the chaos, turned into a year of implant surgery b.s.
The full-face cycling helmets are no less comfortable, and would probably have moved the needle in both of those scenarios despite being casual on-road accidents.
- jacquesm 5y agoThat's a good point. I tried a full face but I find that if I have to choose between wearing a full face helmet or taking the car for any length trip that I'll end up taking the car. But your comment makes me reconsider, especially given that every third 130 km trip I have a 'near miss' of sorts, either some animal or a pedestrian or another cyclist making an expected move. So far so good (good brakes), but statistically speaking that probably won't last. So thanks!
- pengaru 5y agoFWIW this [0] is the one I've been using. It's light and vented as well as any other decent cycling helmet. The only time the chin bar makes itself known is drinking water, but that's a small price to pay IMO, I like my teeth. My buddy has the same one, we just came in from a trail ride an hour ago. I just asked him and confirmed no complaints from either of us... [0] https://www.bellhelmets.com/bike/p/super-3r-mips-mountain-bike-helmet/100000000500000059.html https://www.bellhelmets.com/bike/p/super-3r-mips-mountain-bi...
- jacquesm 5y agoUnfortunately it doesn't seem that that one is legal on my 'fast' bike (but on the slow one it is). You need NTA 8776 approval for those.