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The other day I was telling a friend about an accident I had on my bike. I don’t want to think too much about it, right now, but at the end of the accident (and it took just a second to happen) my helmet was totally wrecked.This got me thinking about motorbike helmet construction. And the fact that I wouldf now never ride a motor bike long distance if I was moving my home across country. I would forgo the pleasure of cruising on the open road and use a good motorcycle movers instead.They’re all made from plastic these days, though the best helmets are often reinforced with carbon fiber or the kevlar that goes into body armour.Inside there are foam pads or fabric lining to make the fit comfortable. But this is purely cosmetic. The real work is done in the solid foam shell. This shell is engineered to break on impact. This is what saved my life in my accident. Although I smashed the wing mirror off the car I hit I didn’t damage my glasses (except for splashing blood over them) or even give me a headache. The entire force of that hit was absorbed in an inch and a half of foam. The shell broke right through in four distinct places on the shell, and split in surface cracks in several other sections. But none of the impact got through to my scalp, and I am very very grateful for that.

On thing about this, of course, is that even if I just drop my helmet on the floor of the garage I ought to replace it. The impact may have degraded the foam and make it likely to fail in my next accident.

So the motorcycle movers will have to be reliable — I want to use a company that will not drop my helmet.