Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

YouTube - Object in front wheel

Facial fractures avoided, snapped neck maybe not so much...

Ninja's naturally go into a shoulder roll.

Not so, grasshopper.

Ninja does not crash.

Have you thought of getting a balaclava?

Too much wool to pick out of scabs.

when I was a kid (must have been 7 or 8) a ped stepped out of his front garden while I was going hell for leather down a big hill (on the pavement - I wasn't allowed on the road). I went over the handlebars and used the side of my face to slow myself down. I wish I had photos. I got a scab the entire side of my face.
Anyway, noone had helmets then.

PS. I've only ever been knocked off the bike by pedestrians. They're fuckin' lethal!

Too much wool to pick out of scabs.

silk balaclava?

YouTube - Object in front wheel

put a helmet on object then

I've gone over the bars and ninja rolled (several times).
I've gone over the bars and landed on my face (several times).
I've gone over the bars and volted, landing on my feet (several times).
I've gone over the bars and landed on my back (several times).
I've gone over the bars and and stuck my arm out, locking it and doing something to my elbow that resulted in me being unable to move said arm for a week or so. Very painful.
I've gone over the bars and landed on the side of my face (again).
I've gone over the bars and landed on my face slid down a hill with my leg coming back over my head, I thought I was going to break my neck, it hurt alot.
I've gone over the bars and landed on my face and ended up in hospital with concussion feeling quite bad.

I've gone over the bars a lot, twice drunk but mainly sober. I've never covered my head as I fell.

YMMV.

I need todo some more cycling that involves going over the bars.

Wear a balaclava and you can skid your face along the ground without getting hurt. Win.

Wear a balaclava and you can skid your face along the ground without getting hurt. Win.

Wool doesn't do much to protect from road rash.
Leather balaclava's better.
With a ball gag if you can afford it.

A ball gag....

*What do you have when you have two little balls in your hand?

A man's undivided attention.*

Here's some more. Don't eat them all at once.
http://jokes4all.net/balls.html

Judi and Jon got married and she was at the drugstore looking at the men's toiletries. A clerk comes up to help her and asks if she needs assistance.

"I'm looking for some deodorant for my new husband Jon, but I don't know what type he uses."

The clerk says, "Is it the ball type?"

"No," says Judi, it's for his underarms."

I always knew this joke as 'A man walks into a Russian chemist and asks for deodorant. The chemist asks "Ball or aersol'" etc.'
That way you get both a scrotum and an anus in one joke...

But back to helmets...

Fuck me - have you even bothered to look at the activity on this thread for the past 24 hours?

http://www.50cycles.com/yakkay-helmets.php
http://www.50cycles.com/casqu-en-ville.php

Seriously though I can't make my mind up if they are proper awful or would actually be pretty cool?

I think I'm about here on the scale:

PRETTY COOL <----------------------------------¦--> PROPER AWFUL

Update: Apologies just noticed they have been mentioned in previous posts....

Fine if you are a jockey and wearing silks - not too sure about the rest

£1

I'd rather break my skull/face than wear one of those - hooray-Henry attire ain't my bag, pal

Antiporn is that way >>>>>

Not this again.

Merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge! merge!

Please.

http://video.tedxcopenhagen.dk/video/911034/mikael-colville-andersen

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Oh for crying out, a TED conference I have some interested in listening to that turn out not to have a subtitle option?!

The world hate me.

Sorry, Ed. I didn't think of that. Mikael is quite funny, and you would, unfortunately, miss quite a lot of that even with subtitles. :(

Oh it's not your fault! it's just somewhat of an oddity for a TED conference to not have subtitle.

I see. Perhaps they just haven't done the subtitling yet (he says hopefully)?

Maybe because it's TEDx not TED proper?

Great watch, very funny.