A picture is worth a thousand words.

[gkamer]

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[oldguyinTX]

Too true. A helmet saved my noggin in 1976 when I was forced off the road on a blind curve by a car coming right at me in my lane. Scary as hell. Got a fair amount of road rash and a pretty good headache, but I walked away. The bike, however, was another story. And of course, the car driver idiot didn't stop to see if he had killed me or not, but then he probably didn't give a s**t one way or the other.

[Peter Aawen]

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I hope that wasn't you, GK!?! I hope that whoever had that helmet on wasn't too badly injured otherwise!

In my experience attending accident scenes, sometimes the helmet can be mashed & yet everything else is virtually unmarked; other times the helmet might end up looking like that, but then you discover that the rest of the outfit was waaayyy worse, as was the person wearing said outfit!!

But the caption is certainly right about the point it's trying to get across - it doesn't really matter how good a rider you might think you are or how safe you think your Spyder or any other ride is, it's results like that that're behind the WHY we wear the protective gear!

[gkamer]

I hope that wasn't you, GK!?! I hope that whoever had that helmet on wasn't too badly injured otherwise!

In my experience attending accident scenes, sometimes the helmet can be mashed & yet everything else is virtually unmarked; other times the helmet might end up looking like that, but then you discover that the rest of the outfit was waaayyy worse, as was the person wearing said outfit!!

But the caption is certainly right about the point it's trying to get across - it doesn't really matter how good a rider you might think you are or how safe you think your Spyder or any other ride is, it's results like that that're behind the WHY we wear the protective gear!

Pete, thankfully that was NOT me! I don't know the back story on the rider but I hope he/she was not too badly injured.

[Bartender]

Just a thought to consider. When I wrecked my BMW 1200 RT three years ago. I was wearing a quality helmet, textile jacket with armor and leather chaps. Helmet looked like the OP's helmet but I had no head injuries of any kind. No injuries on upper torso, other that five broken ribs, where protected by textile jacket. However, road rash under the leather chaps even though chaps were not torn. That convinced me that textile with armor was better than leather with no armor. My two cents worth.

[ARtraveler]

Yes! A picture is worth a thousand words.

Both Linda and I are believers.

[Raven]

I know a full face has saved my life.
Went down missing a kid. Elbow and head hit a curb at 50 mph.
Arm didn't work for two years. Head there was no brain damage I swear.
One saved the brother in law, when he was hit head on by a car.

[wyliec]

I know a full face has saved my life.
Went down missing a kid. Elbow and head hit a curb at 50 mph.
Arm didn't work for two years. Head there was no brain damage I swear.
One saved the brother in law, when he was hit head on by a car.

I always wear a full face helmet when riding. But, the helmet only protects your skull. The brain floats in fluid and can bounce into the impact side of the skull, and then if you are really unlucky it will bounce in the opposite direction and hit the skull, again. I know over the years there have been members on here who have had TBI's. It's always a good idea to be checked after any head injury, even if you seem to feel fine. I worked with a patient one time who was really unlucky, he was hit with a baseball bat a number of times; so he had coup-contrecoup injuries.