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    Onewheeldave
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    During a particulalry intense thread on the stupidity of fire breathing
    on 'Home of Poi' someone posted this link, and I thought it may be of
    interest, especially to Mike Fule who recently delved into the world of
    full face helmets for unicycling: -

    tinyurl.com2zms7

    The jist is that helmets with rigid chin bars will save
    your face, but can transmit the force into a fatal lower
    skull fracture.

    More relevant for the higher speeds of motorcycles than
    unis I guess.

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    onewheeldave - Semi Skilled Unicyclist

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  2. U-Turn
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    Wow: die or live with a smashed-in face. Hmmmm,,,, what to do, what to
    do....

    Somehow the idea of using one's face as a shock absorber to
    protect one's brain is not appealing.

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  3. Theamazingmolio
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    U-Turn said:

    *Somehow the idea of using one's face as a shock absorber
    to protect one's brain is not appealing. *

    maybe not, but I knew someone who lost his life in a
    motorcycle crash because he was wearing a full face helmet

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    theamazingmolio - A Unicylist, a juggler, and a prat

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  4. Theamazingmolio
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    he would most likely have survived with an open-face helmet
    on, but full face helmets have also saved many people as
    well when wearing an open faced helmet would have seen them
    dead. Some of the things we do are dangerous, and there is
    no single way of removing all that danger- you have to look
    at all the risks first, look at ways of reducing them and
    then see if you still want to do it.

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