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I have been shopping around for a new helmet. I think I am going to spring for the Scorpion EXO-400. But anyway, what do you do with your old helmets?
Soren
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Trash them or give them to your ex-wife or her boyfriend.
Bob _Budesky
aka- rbb
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give them to your ex-wife or her boyfriend.
Excellent idea!! Let me drop it in the parking lot a couple times first!
Soren
(bitter, no I'm not still bitter... stupid two timing, cheating, lying #$@%)
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Some make passible flower pots. Or, strip out the lining, drill a few holes and use it for a strainer. Paint it with black and white hexagons and use it for a socker ball.
This has the makings of a fun thread. More seriously, old helmets often have deteriorated in ways that can't be readily seen, so it's best to toss them in the dustbin or maybe use them to practice airbrushing before you put a design on a new lid.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I was thinking about buying a mini-itx motherboard ( http://mini-itx.com/) for Mac Mini and turning mine into a computer case. I want a slot-loading DVD/CD-RW drive behind the chinbar and a small LCD monitor behind the faceshield. It would make a cool second computer for the living room. Maybe an MP3 server with a wireless link to the stereo (and, of course, my desktop machine in the office). Naturally I need to have my buddy paint it up cool.
Oh, here's one, but I like my idea better. ITX Helmet
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If you run windows on it it will be a true crash helmet! 
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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I like to hang old helmets and old license plates up in the garage... I know its just more junk taking up space, but oh well. Someday I'll have an old gas pump to put outside the door....
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If you run windows on it it will be a true crash helmet!
I'd hate to get the dreaded BFSOD (Blue Face Shield of Death).
Ar ar ar... 
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I like to hang old helmets and old license plates up in the garage...
My old helmet is hanging up in the garage. I'd kept it around in case anything happened to my new helment. Then I knocked the old helmet off its nail in the wall and it hit the concrete from about 7' off the ground. So much for a backup helmet...
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Haiku:
Windows XP Crashed
I am the Blue Screen of Death
No one hears your screams
(I wish I could claim that as my own)
--Jaeger
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Taking this thread farther off topic, I better make mine a Linux helmet...
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Linux will run on just about anything else, I can't see why it won't run on a helmet. 
04 America
SS Pipes, Airbox Mod, 132/45, TBS Needles
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If it's in good condition and never been dropped, donate it to your local learner centre.
If it's scuffed, scratched, dinked, dropped, whiffy or generally knackered, cut the straps off (illegal ride without straps over here) and chuck it!
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