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@Khornight2
Me neither... Although I'm not sure what that means. There's a guy at work that's 50 and has never broken a bone in his body (until recently)... Doesn't mean he's never going to (as he discovered recently)
Anecdote time. So there I was cycling along after a night of drunkenness with a very drunk lady riding on my rack (not a euph, and if my girlfriend is reading, I have no interest physically in this lady), we're going fairly fast and we hit a pothole, she bounces forward and lands on her forehead (seriously, the noise was the most sickening thing I've heard in a long time), i'm seriously considering going to a&e with her, but she says she's fine... She doesn't remember anything between getting on the bike and standing up with a grazed face... But that could just be the sambuca.
Other than a lump, bruise and graze she was totally fine (didn't even get a hangover!)... Wearing a helmet might have stopped the graze, but I doubt would have slowed the impact enough to stop the bruise and lump.
Just an anecdote make of it what you will.