• Nougat@fedia.io
    39·
    3 months ago
    • If your helmet doesn’t have a chin bar (full or modular), you don’t care about your chin, teeth, or nose.
    • wrt ATGATT, most of that gear will reduce or avoid injury. A helmet will prevent your death.
    • If you don’t wear earplugs - even with a helmet on - enjoy your tinnitus and/or hearing loss. This is from wind noise, not engine noise.
    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      42·
      3 months ago

      A friend of mine crashed her motorbike a few years ago and her face bounced off the road. Her chin bar flexed inwards so much that it broke her nose and chipped a front tooth.

      She was furious that the helmet didn’t protect her properly, until her husband who was riding behind her pointed out that she essentially landed face first at over 60mph, and that without the helmet, her face would have taken the full force of the landing.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        35·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, that was probably a “anything less than a chin bar and you’d be super dead” incident.