Let me set the scene for you. Your at Infineon (Sears Point) hanging out with your friends. The weather is perfect, the sun is shining just right, and you are participating in the very popular 4 hour endurance race. Your running a lap time of 1:44, 1:45, whatever it takes. The pace that you are running is nothing, not like during a race, for as you know there are 4 hours of track time to split between 3 people and who knows who’s winning. So you doing your stint on the bike and you come around turn 7 with a great drive out of the corner. You drop it left into 8 and flip it back over to the right for 8a. At the apex, you pin it to win it and fly out of the corner. All day long this is how you have approached this corner and it has been working well for you. You drift it to the rumble strips and just fly. But this time you happen to be looking down at the bike sliding on the left side on the ground going right over the blue and white rumble strips. The next thing you remember is talking to the EMT dude who is hovering right over your head and your just about at the hospital.

The photos here are of my helmet and as you can see it took the most of the impact. All of the gear I was wearing did it’s job and I will never understand how people can just hop on a bike in shorts and a tank-top and hope that their flip-flop doesn’t fall off. But to each his own. I just wanted to show people how good equipment can really benefit the one who wears it.

Before

After