Any question answered...

Its not the exact model pictured, I couldn't find one, but it has the same level of protection and is large I can find out the exact size if you would like me to.

How much would postage be?

no idea but again I can find out if you are interested. Worth noting that it has a couple of cut-outs on the chin-plate to allow me to fit a throat guard as I used to be a goalie.

Please do, interested in using it as a polo helmet. No rush though, can you PM me when you know?

will do.

Cheers

Ed, if Jadias doesn't know what happened, then how do you?

Indeed. My bet, knowing the road, is that I hit a stealthy pothole at speed.

No cars or other parties of any sort involved. This is certain. No one to be 'aware of'. I usually am an alert, aware cyclist and I don't think a full-face helmet would change that. If it requires a little more effort then so be it.

One question to ask is where do you stop?

A full face helmet moves all load to your neck, do then you might choose to wear a collar to move it to your shoulders and so on.

I speak as someone who broke his jaw in a bicycle accident.

I speak as someone who broke his jaw in a bicycle accident.

kinda mumbly?

If you do indeed speak with an impediment due to your accident then please accept my apologies for this cheap laugh

I cycle dressed like a knight from the round table.

So far 0 accidents but hill climbing is a PITA.

No more than I did beforehand

I cycle dressed like a knight from the round table.

So far 0 accidents but hill climbing is a PITA.

that's an accident joust, waiting to happen.

sounds like you're running the gauntlet...

do you have a squire for your club runs?

Why am I so tired?

lack of sleep, due to weighing things on your mind.

things weighing i mean.

I haz a lacrosse helmet that you can have for the cost of postage:

You will still look like a plank but as lacrosse is a summer sport they are relatively cool.

Pfff... We played lacrosse in school with nothing but short shorts and the leering gaze of a randy P.E teacher.

But bike / motorbike accidents are generally due to people not seeing you, not the other way around. Nobody with any sense rides a motorbike with an open face helmet in traffic.

Traffic is exactly when I switch to an open face, or ride with my flip front open.
You get so much more peripheral vision, so much more direct vision, and in an environment where you need to see everything that is going on around you.

The thing with full face helmets is that you cannot reclaim much of the restricted vision by looking more. Big lumps of helmet are just in the damn way. Looking down properly is impossible for a start.

Having a face guard on the road is complete over-kill.

Having one in polo with the exception of very competitive play is still excessive.

But if you are insistent on wasting your money have a look at the protection thread in polo, about 17 pages to help you think about how pointless it is.

Both the road and polo you can protect yourself better by riding defensively, in polo don't put your face in the area that someone's mallet may go through, on the road don't ride at max speed and always give yourself loads of room.

If it was a pot hole or just something unexpected, you were riding too fast for your conditions.

What's the capital of turkmenistan?

Where's a good place to get rid of used silver oxide watch batteries?

throw them at drivers

I use d-locks for that.

Wasn't riding anywhere near max speed when I had my crash (unless I suddenly and inexplicably sped up in the seconds prior to it, which I can't remember).

There are always things you can't control. Asshole/drunk drivers acting too quickly or unpredictably for you to reasonably react. Stealthy potholes and bumps hidden by lighting, paint, water, etc. Sudden mechanical failure of your bike (not including things which can be reasonably checked).

You can be the world's safest rider and check your bike meticulously before every small ride but accidents can and will still happen. After experiencing first-hand (first-face?) the effects of a faceplant onto harsh, unforgiving tarmac... forgive me for not wanting to go through all this shit again.

Right now I'm limited to soft food for at least a month because four of my front teeth had to be splinted into place with a piece of metal which is slowly wearing away my lip from the inside. I'm blowing plugs of dried pus and blood out of my nose, which incidentally will never be the shape it was before. I have a bunch of scars on my face already, with more to come as the last dressings come off and sutures come out. I had to have my ex-girlfriend wash my hair over the edge of the bath so as not to fuck with all the dressings and things on my face.

I love cycling and I'm perfectly willing to accept the risks of broken arms, legs, etc but facial injuries are fucking NASTY. The last 5 days have been bewildering, exhausting, painful, humiliating and expensive... and the damage will likely never fully heal, in the first area of your body that anybody sees. I'm not suggesting everybody rush out and buy a full-face, but I feel a sudden justification for personally being extra careful from now on.

EDIT: Apologies. Didn't intend to write a lengthy sob-story novel.