try 1897
Active Member
I read about helmets vs. No helmets and recalled the day years ago when I stopped by Blaylock cycle to get a carb rebuild kit for the 650 Bonneville I was riding at the time. On the wall was a poster of a broken egg like humpty dump. The caption read "all the kings horses and all the kings men PLEASE WHERE A HELMET " I went home with the helmet not the rebuild kits. Come a few years later I crashed at the dragstrip and cracked a helmet a different one but similar and was in a coma for a short time. I had a fracture skull and they had to cut to let the pressure off. Often I recall the Dr telling me it was the impact of my brain against my skull not the helmet to the concrete that did the damage. After I healed I would look in the mirror and see the same person yet I was different. Friends and family all said the same thing. There is no doubt in my mind that the helmet saved my life that day. Tom Yendell P.S. I raced again two years later