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Best oh shit moment:
Been at a mates place all afternoon drinking lots of beer with other friends. Gets late and dark. Spot random unused old mountain bike in back garden. Go for a quick blast around the primary school next door. Hurtle down a path and go to jam on the back brake for skid....except it's the front brake cos some nonse hooked em up the wrong way round! Front wheel stops dead and the rest of the bike begins to rotate around it with me on it, as it gets to around 45deg I just let go and fly through the air with legs rotating long jump style and land on my feet running. I honestly think that if I had been sober there's no way I would have avoided some kind of injury.
Very interesting link Oliver:
On helmets, I was a teenager in Australia when the helmet laws were introduced, we just didnt bother but the cops would stop you and fine you $25 which was loads for me at the time. It got tedious so I just gave in and wore one. They were just so very UNcool. Straight away kids stopped riding as much. Kids who were right into bmx etc would still ride but you'd get shit hung on you for wearing a helmet. I had a paper round and used to do it on my bike, now the kids get driven by their parents from house to house - WTF? Yeah, they'll really learn how to get things done on their own. When i see stuff like that I fear for the future of mankind.