Save by my helmet twice in three days

[SegwayBill]

Sunday I was gliding up a ramp in a friends building and was distracted by the people around me and did not see this low over head pipe. All of a sudden my neck was commpressed and my kness buckled. My neck is still sore but there is no bump on my head.
Yesterday I was gliding on the sidewalk and thought I had ducked low enough for a branch, the end of it hit me square on the front of my head. If I had not been wearing my helmet it would have ripped a hole in my scalp. As it was I glided away shakened but not damaged.
One of my Segway friends here in NYC says it is better to look dorky then be dead or injured

Bill

[yosgof]

I think, it also helps to watch where you're going :D

- Yossi
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[macgeek]

Bill was thinking of the Hooter Scooter girls, and was.... Distracted

Jonathan


"Think outside the car"

[terryp]

Who says wearing a helmet makes you look dorky? It shows you have a brain, and care enough to protect it.

Segway - What's holding you up?

[Mr. Protocol]

I never call it a helmet. I call it an "income protector."

[Murray Fisher]

Back in my Harley Davidson days...over 60 years ago, we called them "Brain Buckets"......but they were usually WW II aviation leather helmets and goggles!! However since those days I have ridden everything from Moto Guzi's and Honda's to you name it, using the current helmets.

Murray Fisher

[danj]

I'm an "arch-newbie", i.e. first post to any forum & new HT glider, and not,historically, a 'safety first' person. That said,I'm here to say "get, and wea,r a good helmet when you' glidin'" For reasons unknown (and out of character) to me I bought a helmet before my HT was delivered. First time out I eventually went trail riding and, on a rocky stretch of the trail, had my first fall - over backwards - first point of contact was HARD - and helmet to boulder. Really believe that, if not for the 'bucket' I'd have been hospitalized. Instead, I simply got up, got on, and immediatly repeatewd the helmet to rock collision. Suffice to say, I may be a slow learner but I'm a helmet believer.


No more fall, since, but never less a believer. Twice in 5 minutes have me saaying "Amen" to Bill's "it is better to look dorky then be dead or injured"