 Do not worry I am not perverse in any way.......
The other day I was playing on a jump and messed it up at full speed went straight over the bars and took the full force of the crash with my head.
Normally, I would jump up from a fall and brush myself off and carry on. But not this time. I knocked myself out (and put a dent in my handjob..... boo).
When I kind of came to(ish)I realised what a lucky girl I had been. My helmet had a massive crack in it right near my temple. I started to immediately shake from thinking what could have been if I didn't have me lid on........
So, I had concussion for two days, was slightly confused, couldn't get me words out, had a massive deep bruise on my side where I landed on a rock (which has left a horrible lump under my skin), but I walked away from it.
This is why I was kissing me helmet because it saved me from serious injury........ just shows you......
Ive now kept it as a trophy and bought a lovely new olive green giro hex! Tee hee.
Anyone else felt the same love?????
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 Yep i have also felt the same love for my helemt, in spain several yrs ago, was riding down a steep descent, got my shorts caught on the front of my saddle, so i couldnt move my arse over the back of the saddle as you should, so was gaining speed, next thing i knew i flew over the handle bars and was doing a good impression of super girl, crashed and landed on my brand new helmet, guy who was running the holiday was convinced i had broken my collar bone etc, but thankfully i got off lightly just a bit of going dizzy and a headache for a while and big dent in helemt...
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 wow good story Beckster. Glad to hear your ok now, and no permanent damage to you ( bike and helmet can be replaced ) don't let it out you off for too long, get back on your bike asap  and take it easy! no stories from me (yet) luckily.
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 I have no pushbike helmet related stories but I know my motorbike on saved me from an unpleasant episode so I have a lot of respect for, and always wear, my helmets. My brother once wrote off a transit van with his head when he was racing once, some years ago, which I think is a pretty cool claim to fame: The trail had been closed but the vandriver still went through the cordons - brother was hurtling downhill and met the van coming round a corner. Brother spent the night in hospital under observation but the van was written off! My brother was bloody lucky (he was throughout his racing career) but had he not been wearing his helmet it could have been a very different story!
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 Oooh Beckster - hope you're recovering OK - sounds like you were a very lucky girl! Must meet up again sometime soon! Missing my riding buddy
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 I have split 2 switchblade... And the one I am currently using have a small crack it in :'( but don't want to throw it away as it's not produced any more
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Thanks guys! Am fully recovered, apart from this weird lump on my side.....
Big up to helmets!
Was back on my bike three days afterwards doing the same jump, although alot slower. Am building up to it again......
Foxy boy-You really should buy a new one if yours is cracked.......
Jen- I will email you. Lets go on an adventure!!!!
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I know I know But I can't find one nowhere. I am using it as an XC helmet astrack in france are a bit "rough"
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So foxy boy...... I see you have got a handjob....... am I right?
Go and get a new bloody helmet!
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LOL Yes I do have a Handjob I am a boy after all (ok lame joke) and I love it to bits. It limits me in terms of jumps, as I tend not to jump more than 70-100 cm with it, but it's a very very nice and agile bike for a XC machine and I quite like the feeling of the steel. Well at the moment I am in UK so I am using a HEX  , it's just when I go back to france for holidays that I use my switchblade. If I could find some I would buy 3 pairs right now but they are discontinuated and the only one that would do the job is a parachute, but they are painful on my head . Why oh why no one does a AM helmet with a chin guard.
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Aren't handjobs great? Ive got one too! Sounds so wrong........
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LOL Yeah the name is one of the reason I choose the handjob over the Soul... So on my research group calendar I could put hanjob time every wednesday Other reason being I have a thing for West coast canadian geometries.
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Other reason being I have a thing for West coast canadian geometries. Really? We'd never have guessed!  To have a lightweight "All Mountain" full face helmet is very very difficult - I've seen the detachable chinguard of a Met Parachute detach during a crash and make the situation worse, it effectively splintered into pieces and went into the rider's lower jaw, not nice. The only real answer is the full on DH lids but they're very heavy and not well vented. Beckster, good to hear you're OK, hope you're back to full speed on the bike soon.
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No really it's true My stable is One RM switch first edition One Kona Hoss One handjob And I am resisting very hard not to buya Cove hustler I have seen the Casco Viper MX FR6XC and a Cratoni. Full face helmet are completly out of order. I wont be able to sustin them during the 5-6 hours of the ride Maybe a THE I quite like the fact they go down on the neck But I have time I am not going back to france before september
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Thanks James, am back up to speed!Looking forward to getting out for a ride tomorrow! Hope alls good with you.
Foxy boy- I might well be being a complete div but how do you post pics up? Was gonna put up me handjob in 'the shed'. Computers aren't my forte......
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d'ohhh
I'll try again
[ url]http://where/my/image/is[ /url] but without the space.
If you can't make it pm me I'll give you my email and I'll do it for you
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