Crash

1olbull said:

Cr0ft,
Interesting comment you made regarding 20% head hits strike the chin.
Could you please provide or point me to the data that backs this up?

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stephantmi said:

Would I ride again, no... I really miss riding, loved my R3T... but I would not put my wife, my family through this again... I'm sad about that, but it's a learning. There is a cost that I'm not prepared to have others pay for me.

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cr0ft said:

Understandable, especially after the fact. That said, we'll all die one way or the other, and weighing the joy of riding with the potential downsides is something we all have to do.

You could just as well have slipped in the tub and smashed your skull in. In the US, 6000 people or more people die in falls in the home every year - well over twice the deaths from motorcycling. And riders can definitely adjust their danger level by the simple expedient of wearing a high-quality full face helmet and proper riding gear with armor - especially a spine protector - to distribute any impact force on the spine in addition to training and driving defensively. But everyone has to choose to ride or not for themselves - and noone can argue that it doesn't raise one's risk.

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ROCKETHEAD said:

Guys back off on analyzing every fn thing... this thread is not to debate the what, where and why. Give Stephan the support and understanding of what he is going through and learn from his experience...

I am glad you are still with us, it is a surreal event that you experienced and made me go full gear yesterday when I went for a short ride and I hugged my loved ones before I left.

All the best and stay strong on your road to recovery.

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ROCKETHEAD said:

Guys back off on analyzing every fn thing... this thread is not to debate the what, where and why. Give Stephan the support and understanding of what he is going through and learn from his experience....

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cr0ft said:

20% may actually be conservative, it adds up to over 30%. I didn't have the graph handy and I remembered wrong: http://dontai.com/wp/2010/05/20/motorcycle-helmet-impact-zones (first relevant hit off a Google search).

As I said, people make their own choices, but having your chin sheared clean off won't kill you, it will just leave you disfigured, so I'll stick with my modular helmet. It's not much of a face but it's a face.

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Rolltide100 said:

Glad you got that out in the open, because I was about to get censored and or banned for replying to previous posts. Sometimes I struggle with such issues.

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cr0ft said:

Understandable, especially after the fact. That said, we'll all die one way or the other, and weighing the joy of riding with the potential downsides is something we all have to do.

You could just as well have slipped in the tub and smashed your skull in. In the US, 6000 people or more people die in falls in the home every year - well over twice the deaths from motorcycling. And riders can definitely adjust their danger level by the simple expedient of wearing a high-quality full face helmet and proper riding gear with armor - especially a spine protector - to distribute any impact force on the spine in addition to training and driving defensively. But everyone has to choose to ride or not for themselves - and noone can argue that it doesn't raise one's risk.

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