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@Dammit
Not4sale was taken off his bike by a car turning across traffic.
This happened almost directly outside my old flat.
I did not see the accident, but I did see the substantial amount of claret on the roads, and I saw the pictures that Not4sale posted up afterward- and met the man himself at the Bike and Kite Festival a little later on.
Now BlueQuin always derides helmets as "nasty foam hats", but I contend that Not4sale would have lost less cranial skin had he had a nasty foam hat on.
Someone has probably made the comparison already in one of the 50 pages before this one, but helmets are similar to gloves in a way- would they protect against a high speed shunt?
No, or the mitigation of the damage would be so minimal as to be undetectable, but at slower speeds they stop you having to get your girlfriend to wipe you arse (TM Hippy).