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From: fist@iscp.bellcore.com (Richard Pierson)
Subject: Re: Observation re: helmets
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 93 18:33:05 GMT
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In article <211353@mavenry.altcit.eskimo.com>,
maven@mavenry.altcit.eskimo.com (Norman Hamer) writes:
|>  
|>  Grf. Dropped my Shoei RF-200 off the seat of my bike while trying to
|> rock 
|> it onto it's centerstand, chipped the heck out of the paint on it...
|>  
|>  So I cheerfully spent $.59 on a bottle of testor's model paint and 
|> repainted the scratches and chips for 20 minutes.
|>  
|>  The question for the day is re: passenger helmets, if you don't know
|> for 
|> certain who's gonna ride with you (like say you meet them at a ....
|> church 
|> meeting, yeah, that's the ticket)... What are some guidelines? Should
|> I just 
|> pick up another shoei in my size to have a backup helmet (XL), or
|> should I 
|> maybe get an inexpensive one of a smaller size to accomodate my
|> likely 
|> passenger? 

   My rule of thumb is "Don't give rides to people that wear
a bigger helmet than you", unless your taste runs that way,
or they are family.friends.
Gee,  reminds me of a *dancer* in Hull, just over the river 
from Ottowa, that I saw a few years ago, for her I would a
bought a bigger helmet (or even her own bike) or anything 
else she wanted ;->
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