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[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 5 days ago

A friend of mine crashed her motorbike a few years ago and her face bounced off the road. Her chin bar flexed inwards so much that it broke her nose and chipped a front tooth.

She was furious that the helmet didn't protect her properly, until her husband who was riding behind her pointed out that she essentially landed face first at over 60mph, and that without the helmet, her face would have taken the full force of the landing.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 34 points 5 days ago

Yeah, that was probably a "anything less than a chin bar and you'd be super dead" incident.

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