11 July 05
Bike Helmets
bsag over at But She’s a Girl reports on the current discussions about whether or not to make bicycle helmets compulsory.
In the United States, they are only compulsory for children. Most people wear them wrong (too far back) so they are ineffective. But all I know is when I was biking down our mountain in Santa Barbara, looked back, and the next thing I knew I was seeing stars and a whole, perfect, irretrievable novel flash before my eyes, what got broken was my helmet, not my head.
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