Crashed my scoot, not serious

[spandi]

I get full coverage for about $175 a year (and worth it too.)

A helmet can do more than improve safety. It can save your life.
Break an arm, they can fix that. Break a leg, they can fix that. Break your head....

[scootercapecod]

Don't be a squid, wear a lid!

[inuyasha]

Originally Posted by prodigit

I honestly need to be reminded every time about how a helmet is improving safety.
I do wear gloves and goggles, but no helmet most of the time on my scoot.
Never had an accident, never hope to ever have one!
And if I do have one, hope it's a minor one (like falling off the scoot from a stand still or something)

BTW, this reminds me of a free game they have on an android tablet, of a motorcycle rider riding on the road, zigzagging between slower cars, gaining speed every time he/she has a close call with a truck or car or object, until at a certain point in the game you gain 160MPH, and hitting something is bound to happen.
When it finally does happen, the rider often flies in the sky, slides over the road for several seconds, rolls over the road, and sometimes gets ran over by a truck.
Then the injury count comes, usually between $100k and $500k on hospital costs, and you're ready to roll again!
In real life, not so, but in the game it is..

Hi
The proper gear can help minimize or even prevent serious injury and possible death

Its ATGATT for me, any thing else is quite foolhardy imho
Take care and ride safely dear friend
Yours Hank

[spandi]

Thanks a million Hank! (I gotta get me one of these in bright yellow!) No wonder it happened in Baltimore, Impact Jackets, (the company that makes them) is located in Maryland.

http://suite101.com/article/motorcyc...-jacket-a88619

http://www.impactjackets.com/

http://www.ftmeadesoundoff.com/news/...le-safety-day/

I'll be like Bo Hopkins in American Graffiti, one of the "Fay-Rows"

[8307c4]

Yeah there's not a lot of clearance on these things, I have Shinko SR-007 tires which really hold the road and I've 'scraped' going around a turn quickly before... Wasn't even going that fast, I didn't think, like yourself it let me know, these are not sport bikes.

Worse still is those sorry rear shocks don't hold up much.
And you better haven't lowered your ride in favor of speed and fuel economy.

One thing I did learn is we can always use the line through technique, works way better than in a car.

http://www.lazymotorbike.eu/tips/corners/

[Girlrider]

Originally Posted by zooooom

So true! I see so many riding scooters without helmets and I shake my head. They think because it doesn't have the size and power of a motorcycle that they'll be safer. I won't get on anything with a motor without a helmet.

Glad everything was okay for the OP. When I was travelling in Asia I was shocked to see how many Vietnamese riders would have a helmet on but leave it unfastened. It's totally crazy behavior.