Depends how fast you’re going. The Hurt Report (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_Report) shows that the chin takes the majority of head impacts during a motorcycle crash. I personally have chin scars from a bicycle crash where I was going the same speed as a walker, and wearing a standard bicycle helmet. As a lifelong rider of both motorized and unmotorized 2-wheeled vehicles, there’s very little protection difference between a 1/2 helmet and a 3/4 helmet.
I could totally understand those results. Did motocross for a while, and the chin meets the dirt first most of the time (as far as things that shouldn’t ever see damage, anyways). Any helmet that doesn’t have a solid face guard is just posers posing, even for slow speeds.
… hell, one of the worst injuries I got was unironically at like 10mph on my inner thigh when I flipped over my handlebars from a funky hilltop! Massive bruise about 6"x20" along my inner thigh. Blue and purple and terrible. All the connective tissue of skin to flesh was damaged. Hurt A LOT. Still have a bulge almost like a blister about 6"x8" that looks more like a fatty thigh from it.
The suckers who take even worse damage to their heads… oof.
Ouch! My brother rode motocross in 250cc amateur for 10 years, competed at a bunch of the mid-atlantic tracks like Budds Creek and Breezewood, has the x-rays to go with it! Now he’s got a KTM 350, I have a Zero FX with rallycross tires, and we just go into the woods and have fun with friends. What were you riding when you were doing motocross?
Depends how fast you’re going. The Hurt Report (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_Report) shows that the chin takes the majority of head impacts during a motorcycle crash. I personally have chin scars from a bicycle crash where I was going the same speed as a walker, and wearing a standard bicycle helmet. As a lifelong rider of both motorized and unmotorized 2-wheeled vehicles, there’s very little protection difference between a 1/2 helmet and a 3/4 helmet.
I could totally understand those results. Did motocross for a while, and the chin meets the dirt first most of the time (as far as things that shouldn’t ever see damage, anyways). Any helmet that doesn’t have a solid face guard is just posers posing, even for slow speeds.
… hell, one of the worst injuries I got was unironically at like 10mph on my inner thigh when I flipped over my handlebars from a funky hilltop! Massive bruise about 6"x20" along my inner thigh. Blue and purple and terrible. All the connective tissue of skin to flesh was damaged. Hurt A LOT. Still have a bulge almost like a blister about 6"x8" that looks more like a fatty thigh from it.
The suckers who take even worse damage to their heads… oof.
Ouch! My brother rode motocross in 250cc amateur for 10 years, competed at a bunch of the mid-atlantic tracks like Budds Creek and Breezewood, has the x-rays to go with it! Now he’s got a KTM 350, I have a Zero FX with rallycross tires, and we just go into the woods and have fun with friends. What were you riding when you were doing motocross?
450 4 stroke. Eventually got a 500 2 stroke and oh my god… Magic. Scary, dangerous magic.
thank you for the honest yet unfortunate truth haha, reddit lied to me. will look at getting a full helmet, itll save me in winter anyway