Burning Electrons

I got one of my helmets set up with bluetooth communications between nt Zumo GPS and my Iphone, and the built in fm radio, and my MP3 player with 30 gb of mp3s.  I figure I won’t have to just listen to my motor and the wind anymore.

First thing I had to do, though, was to pick which helmet I wanted to set up.  For a guy who never liked helmets I’ve got a bunch of them… I’ve got about 7 helmets.

You would think that someone with that many helmets would wear one of them.  Well, in Wyoming they don’t require a helmet, so of course I had my helmet on the back of my bike, not on my head, when I laid it down going into a corner too hot.  I landed on my face and then my bike landed on me.

I remember trying to get off behind my bike after I layed it down (really quickly), but then I got flipped over the bike and landed in front of it, on my face.  I remember my face hitting the pavement.  It didn’t really hurt, or, it didn’t hurt as much as the bike landing on me hurt.

After that  I didn’t feel a thing.  I don’t remember anything until I woke up with some guy holding my neck in a vice grip so I couldn’t move it.  Of course, I was bleeding into my eyes, so I couldn’t see anything until the EMTs showed up.  It didn’t seem to take too long, but I am not sure at what rate time was moving right then.  It didn’t seem too long.

I got out of the hospital the next day.  I guess my face looked pretty bad  based on the look people gave me when they saw me.  It did ring  my bell, though.  I now know how you can get stupid from having a bike crash.

But I was lucky… again.  It only took a couple of months to shake off the stupid state.  This crash convinced me that wearing a helmet is a good idea.  I still think that helmet laws suck, the choice ought to be the riders, but I am going to wear a helmet from now on, and I will actually wear a real dot approved helmet, not one of those fake things, and if anyone asks, I will tell them that helmets are a good thing.  Everybody ought to wear one.