Wear your helmets

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

This goes out to all the kids who think its a fucking inconvieniance when mommy and daddy tell them to put a helmet on, how cool are you when you spend the last 3 and a half ours in emergency, because you didnt think you needed to wear your helmet on your rip to the bike shop and back, coming back from my shop today with a buddy, i dropped a chain, body slammed my self, and hit my head so hard i had a seizure or lost conciousness or something that caused me to shake..Than when i came to, i looked over and all over the cement was blood from my head, not just like a couple drops it was a fair sized puddle. now i have a cuped hand sized lump on my head, am coverd in blood and roadrash, Ambulence the hole deal and to tell you the truth im lucky i got off as easy as i did, all over saying, i dont need my helmet on this 5 min ride. It isnt worth it not to wear your helmets.
so seriously have a good summer and wear your fucking helmets!

O yeah i also wanna throw a shout out to Cam, (cameron on the boards) for helping me while i was plasted on the sidewalk, Giving up his fox hoodie to bieing a bloody pillow, and carrying my bike halfway across richmond when i went to the hospital, thanks bud!

[H.T.P.]

ouch :(

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

i guess it goes to show, you dont gotta be doing big shit to fuck your self up badd.

[Rosscofat]

snap crackle piznop

[Jay T.]

pfff helemts are for chumps

[Jay T.]

just gotta be h-core and not get hurt, next time dont drop the chain and you will be ok

[8Flat8_Ryder]

wow. sorry to hear that. But i know what it is like, last july i was riding to work on my Brute, without a helmet; along a highway. i went to cross and the next thing i know i was air born. Seems i had just "bounced" off a car after going pretty much through it's windshield. got thrown 30 feet down the highway, dislocated my shoulder, smashed my jaw all to shit and punctured my left ear drum, along with many more cuts and deep cuts. I learned my lesson that day, i am damn lucky to be alive and still riding :)
Wear those Damn helmets Kids :D

[LOBOTIDULATOR]

in soviet russia, helmet wears you

[Nick2468]

pics?

[shirk]

Posted by Stinky_rider7: Another story that should convince you to wear a helmet (pics included ):
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=111566

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

i think that buddy got it a tad worse than me..

[Dantes Inferno]

that would have been so funny too see, sorry, but its true.

[M@M]

that would have been so funny too see, sorry, but its true.
no, just....no

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

that would have been so funny too see, sorry, but its true.
so your saying it would be funny to watch a fellow rider catapolt off his bike, hit the ground and lay there for 10 secconds shaking because he hit his head that hard? if you think thats funny, you are one sick and twisted bastard.

[Dantes Inferno]

I laugh everytime I watch the footage of chris glew absolely hammer the backside of a landing in some snowy seen.

I laugh after every crash I have (once i regain my awareness)

Its part of the sport and its funny. I love watching crashes. Why do people watch bike races?

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

I laugh everytime I watch the footage of chris glew absolely hammer the backside of a landing in some snowy seen.

I laugh after every crash I have (once i regain my awareness)

Its part of the sport and its funny. I love watching crashes. Why do people watch bike races?
watchin cris hammer the back of the tranny in cranked was kinda funny, its one thing to laugh at a minor crash, its another thing to laugh when there is or was possibility for serious injury, if you laugh in a situation like this, you are spinless, in no way do i want sympathy, i know i fucked up, but its the situation, i could have been paralyzed.

[8Flat8_Ryder]

here is what i looked like a week after i was hit and home from the hospital(had to spend a week in KGH)
http://photos.nsmb.com/files/2/6/7/7/5/P4250278.JPG

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

Youch, i would take some pics but i dont have my camera

[8Flat8_Ryder]

Youch, i would take some pics but i dont have my camera
Well i had my jaw wired shut for three months and it took 6 months for my hearing in my left ear to come back completely. Was not fun at all.And Jake they are right, it is not nice to laugh

[Dude Man]

Posted by Stinky_rider7: Another story that should convince you to wear a helmet (pics included ):
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=111566


HAHA that guy should be sponsored Marzocchi with that M on his forehead.

[Trini-dad72]

Damn man... that brings back memories...

Back when I was 16, I was hustling to get a resume to a job. I was booking it out of the parking lot and bunny-hopped a speed bump, I lost grip and got mashed. I did a full on lawn dart: head to pavement.

I was screaming and the medic's showed up in a couple of min. I ended up in RGH, and was checked over. But no x-ray...go figure... I had a lump on my head that went from the corner on my right eye to the middle of my forehead, and a scar that looked like South America.

Anyway... I now have a healed crack in my skull, and 3 helmets to wear.

[DUDEONABIKE]

in soviet russia, helmet wears you
hahaha thats gonna be my sig!

[$$Chris*Ko$$]

many a time has my chain derailed ( stupid fucking bad chain lines by shitty shops ) and i've done a full cartwheel to a nice 10 point landing on my face. each time im wearing my lid so i escape with some serious headaches and a couple small scars, but no head trama. shit. helmets are dope. and you can pimp them out accordingly.

[ESHER SHORE]

its always when you nipping down to the shops...or to the newsagent...when you have the slam that can end your days...and no helmet 'cause its "not needed"

my buddy Richard Taylor, a welsh pro skater for Rollerblade Inc. died about 2 years back, skating down road to local shop, leg buckled, collision with lampost, major head trauma game over, shock a hella lot people up into starting to wear helmets...miss ya buddy :(

I always wear my helmet, even when riding my BMX back to Blockbuster to drop off a rental DVD, its only 2 mins ride from my house in London, but that's when the crash is gonna happen, not when standing (nervous and wired) on top of a big drop, eyeing it up and ready to launch


rob

[Carbuncle]

On pavement I have hit my head hard three times: once at less than one MPH when my back tire caught a wet train track sunken into in a parking lot. Broken helmet with rocks embedded in the helmet skin. Once when my chain snapped putting a big sprint out to get started from a green light: straight over the bars and knocked out cold, broken helmet (yellow Giro, old school). Once, when I was poking into a crosswalk looking left, in the direction of traffic on a one way street, and another messenger came barrelling up the curb going the wrong way a probably 20 MPH: he hit me right between the downtube and the back of the front wheel. His bike hung up on mine and he fell off sideways, while all of his forward momentum transferred into me. Left foot unclipped from my Onzas, but the right foot didn't so I rocketed around the two bikes like a ragdoll with the clipped foot as a fulcrum and slammed tailbone-first into the pavement. I tried to stand up, in shock and not realizing how badly I was hurt (couldn't walk for a week, docs said they had never seen an injury quite like it), passed out falling straight back dead sailor style and slammed the back of my head into the pavement. Once again, Giro saved my life. The last one, I wish I had video of. It was 11:30 am on the busiest corner in Seattle, 4th and Pike, and all around me I could hear people screaming OH MY GOD!!!!! CALL AN AMBULANCE!!!! Good times. And I knew so many couriers who never wore helmets...even a full time professional rider gets taken out. That's the scary part, when you ride that much yo think you are nearly invincible but it's the weird circumstances an the one-off events that happen when you think you are safe that get you.

I won't even go into how many times helmets have saved me since I started riding MTBs off road seriously.

[SEKTER13]

I smashed my head hard yesterday riding, luckily I was wearing a helmet though. Not worth the risk. I also think crashes are really funny BUT only after the fact in videos. It's never funny watching a friend go down hard in real life.

[mudpuppy]

Good to hear your ok man, as I have said many times when people start arguing about wearing helmets..I would be dead if it were not for my helmet, my kids no father my wife no husband and my parents no son. There is NO way to argue with that, shit happens and no matter of skill can avoid it...wear your helmet.

[Mic]

I once saw how a bike messenger got high-sided by a car - and he was not wearing a helmet. Roughly 50 kmh. And at a European bike festival in the 90s a women died - she was clipped in and cruising along a sidewalk, couldn't get out of the clickies and smacked her head so hard she died in hospital later on. Her helmet was hanging from her handlebars......since these two things i never ever ride with out a helmet.

Stupid is when so-called "pros" ride without a helmet and are being filmed - check superheroes 3. Idiots.

[biggles604]

Every bad injury I have sustained has been on super easy stuff that noone in their right mind should fall on:
Demo Forest: Took most of the flest of my knee off on a bridge deck
Trans canada Trail: fell on bridge deck avoiding my wife. She tore her rotator cuff, I have permanent nerve damage in one leg.
Eagle mtn, in a car park: Got on my bike, fell off the other side, broke my wrist.

Shit happens when you least expect it and when your guard is down.

I'll be the guy on the bus folled in bubble wrap wearing a helmet.

[slider32]

pfff helemts are for chumps
just gotta be h-core and not get hurt, next time dont drop the chain and you will be ok
You are an inconsiderate dumbass. I bet you think you are too cool to ride without a helmet. Just think how cool you will be when you are in the hospital drooling all over yourself because of a brain injury.

[03stinkyrida]

I knocked myself out last week, while wearing a helmet. I only hit my chin on the ground and was still knocked out.

[cameron]

dude, you didnt just bail, you fucking hit the ground HARD.

he was riding in richmond, stood up to begin to pedal, I heard cracking noise. i think "uh oh?". ryan bails over his bars, entangling himself in his bike, head hitting the ground first. i chuck (ok, not chuck, but place) my bike on the fensce, run to the fat guy, chuck his bike (no really, I chucked it), and asked if he was okay. his body started shaking uncontrollably for about 12 seconds (scary shit, really.) then he started responding to me. a few people stopped to help - someone called the cops and shit, etc. i called his mom, blah blah.

when he fell, he was half on the sidewalk, half on the street, so I reached my hand under his head to move it onto an even surface (the sidewalk.. it was on the street), and when I pulled my hand out, I knew exactly where the blood was coming from. and yes, there was quite the puddle.

i grabbed my fox hoody (RIP FOX HOODY) and put it under his head to 1. hopefully slow the bleeding, and 2. for a pillow. :woot:

cops, firetruck, and ambulace came, took fatty away (i'm still surprised that they could lift him onto the stretcher- even though it was 12" off the ground, I'm still surprised.)

because i'm the best friend ever, i put his bike on my BACKPACK and rode about 4 miles to my cousins house. (yes, the bike was on my BACKPACK.) and all was well.

he called me a few hours later, and he was at home just chilling. went to visit him, he was well. then I got ice cream. it was good.

scary but fun day. thanks ry!

p.s. you owe me a new fucking hoody.

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

dude, you didnt just bail, you fucking hit the ground HARD.

he was riding in richmond, stood up to begin to pedal, I heard cracking noise. i think "uh oh?". ryan bails over his bars, entangling himself in his bike, head hitting the ground first. i chuck (ok, not chuck, but place) my bike on the fensce, run to the fat guy, chuck his bike (no really, I chucked it), and asked if he was okay. his body started shaking uncontrollably for about 12 seconds (scary shit, really.) then he started responding to me. a few people stopped to help - someone called the cops and shit, etc. i called his mom, blah blah.

when he fell, he was half on the sidewalk, half on the street, so I reached my hand under his head to move it onto an even surface (the sidewalk.. it was on the street), and when I pulled my hand out, I knew exactly where the blood was coming from. and yes, there was quite the puddle.

i grabbed my fox hoody (RIP FOX HOODY) and put it under his head to 1. hopefully slow the bleeding, and 2. for a pillow. :woot:

cops, firetruck, and ambulace came, took fatty away (i'm still surprised that they could lift him onto the stretcher- even though it was 12" off the ground, I'm still surprised.)

because i'm the best friend ever, i put his bike on my BACKPACK and rode about 4 miles to my cousins house. (yes, the bike was on my BACKPACK.) and all was well.

he called me a few hours later, and he was at home just chilling. went to visit him, he was well. then I got ice cream. it was good.

scary but fun day. thanks ry!

p.s. you owe me a new fucking hoody.
Buy 1 and send me the reciept bro.

[cameron]

Buy 1 and send me the reciept bro.


:love:

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

:love:
mind you, you need to put on some weight, when you were trying to block the sun, your lanky figure didnt do the job, but that fat lady sure did.. or was she just holding a towel?

[SkunkworkS]

I think she was holding her shirt, up. :D

[schoenrock]

lets see some pics

[cameron]

I had my camera on me too :mad:

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

I had my camera on me too :mad:
and you didnt take pics?
what the fuck cam..
that actualy pisses me off!

[switch]

If you learn from your mistakes, that is good. :)

If you had a seizure, that is not good. The likelihood of having another seizure is a lot higher. Protect your noggin at all times.

[Keefer]

Does that mean that I'm allowed to beat the shit out of you if I ever see you riding with no helmet again?

[SIDESHOW]

I think she was holding her shirt, up. :D

I heard it ws her panties..?

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

Does that mean that I'm allowed to beat the shit out of you if I ever see you riding with no helmet again?
if your ever back in canada than yes

[Random Hero]

i guess it goes to show, you dont gotta be doing big shit to fuck your self up badd.

Learn to maintain a proper bike and this wouldn't have happened. Either way I'm glad you are ok.

[Gimp Pimp]

Dropped chains suck. The other day i dropped a chain going off a drop at city hall. That was scary but luckily nothing happened. Heal up man!

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

Learn to maintain a proper bike and this wouldn't have happened. Either way I'm glad you are ok.
i dont know if you have ever ran a SS set up, but they are never 100% straight chainline, and my chainline is off ever so slightly. so i guess over the last lil bit my chain had stretched just enugh that it wasnt as tight as i meticulasly keep it, and it came off.. not my fault. nore the bikes fault realy.

[HIBuLlitT]

Learn to maintain a proper bike and this wouldn't have happened. Either way I'm glad you are ok.
kinda harsh eh?