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"... what make me laugh right out loud is when i see adults wearing those helmets while riding a bicycle, i am like WHAT?? you dont trust in your judgement enough to ride a bicycle??? your that afraid of life?? my advise to them is that they should just stay home, lock the dorr and dont ever go out or let anybody in."

I can't speak to people peddling around the subdivision on their Huffy but I've never even met anyone stupid enough to climb on a mountain bike without a helmet. If you're a serious rider you WILL crash occasionally. Shoot, if you are a professional rider you WILL crash. It will hurt, too, because you are probably flying through the air down the side of a mountain at the time. Most serious mountain bikers go through a couple helmets a year.

My worst crash I wasn't able to tuck and roll as I was in an uncontrolled descent. I hit elbows first, driving my humerus (upper arm) bones through my AC joint (the end of the shoulder) snapping them. Both labrums were torn, as were all the major tendons in both rotator cuffs. I had four surgeries over 7 months. Rehab took about a year. My helmet was destroyed but did its job. Pretty sure I would have had a broken head without it.

Last summer I broke a clavicle riding out in Moab, Utah.

Yeah, I wear a helmet when I ride my bicycle.




Wow Chet, i am thinking that bull fighting wouldbe safer then that man! LOL



If you only knew. Add to the above 2 knee surgeries, one back surgery, and a ruptured achilles tendon along with a litany of less serious boo boos (the bar is set pretty high).

I carry a card with my medical history in case I end up in an ER (like I did in Moab) because it just takes too long to fill out that little chart they give you to indicate any surgeries.

When I first met my brilliant (and really good guy) ortho surgeon he was coaching his son's little league team. When I most recently saw him for my broken clavicle he told me said son is the director of trauma surgery at a major university med center. When he retires I'm screwed. He's put Humpty Dumpty back together again so many times he's the only one that knows how I'm constructed.

Amazingly, except for the first few minutes out of bed every morning, everything works pretty well and relatively pain free. I'm pretty good about keeping up with my martial arts exercises and that helps a lot.