Wear your friggin helmet, please.

[Stumble Bee]

that w0ulda fucked ur face!

[dutch1]

wear your helmet please, and do everything you can to make sure that your helmet is a full face.

I ate it last night real hard and would probably be in the ER if not for my full face.

[honuman006]

Glad yer still alive Dooshmeister-0

[dutch1]

and doing fine, thanks to pads and a full face. could use some painkillers though...

[Stumble Bee]

you did bite the big one last night...

[kernel loose-nut]

if i took my own advice none of this woulda happened to me

[t-b0ne]

god, talk about a skull-fuck

goldenseal!!

[Ancient]

if i took my own advice none of this woulda happened to me
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OUCH!  my sympathies to you. nothing like hindsight eh? ::)quote]

[BUMP]

we cant tell ya what to do at zoobomb, but I second that you are a fucking idiot if your bombing without a helmet. They are so readily available and there is not a good reason to not wear one.

I dont care how cool you think you look without one, it looks stupid to the rest of us. They save your brain, its important.


I'd be dead right now if I didnt bomb with a full face on.

you should really where a helmet when tall biking too!

[Leah]

ahem.  no shit!  dutch.  wear your freakin' helmet.  all of you.  even just biking around, regular style.  you're probably a totally awesome biker, and you never get too drunk and biff it, of course.  but there might be some other biker, or some drunk douchebag in a car, or one of those magic curbs that appears out of nowhere!  protect yourself, please.  we want to see you make asses of yourselves for a long time to come.

[honuman006]

ahem.  no shit!    we want to see you make asses of yourselves for a long time to come.

+1

[billy_the_kid]

http://wipeout.knowledgenetwork.ca/wipeout.html
This is a videos series that the Knowledge Network up in Canada produced. It shows a lot of people's person experiences with head trauma and how they cope with it. Gnarly stuff. It sucks to hear how talented these people were and how a head injury can take that away from them.

[soul]

if anyone seen the crash at the speed trap on june 14 i was the first one my buddy the second. this was all due to one of those "magical curbs that come out of no where"... ya wish it was actually i seen it but couldn't stop. but my bike is totaled but i am glad as hell i wore a full face helmet. that saved my life. next time i'm actually gonna use elbow and knee pads.

[mechanic Mark]

Go go safety gear!

[bearcub]

places to score sweet gear!:

a. the bins, not as often, and not always as nice, but its there.  also you can find handy medical braces and stuff for when you crash REALLY hard.

b. deke and bryan's next adventure, bargain basement, this is also a good spot for anything outdoorsy on the cheap, including bitchin spandex, cold weather gear, bags, and snow toys.

c. if you decide to go the more fashionable (and generally less stinky) route, danscomp.com has a really good selection of different pads, ranging from cheap to pricey. (they also sell bmx stuff)

most boo-boos can be avoided by use of:
shin/knee combo gaurds
http://www.danscomp.com/products.php?cat=SAFETYGEAR&show=ShinGuards
elbow/forearm gaurds
http://www.danscomp.com/products.php?cat=SAFETYGEAR&show=ElbowPads
and a sweet full face helmet
http://www.danscomp.com/products.php?cat=SAFETYGEAR&show=Helmets