London parking strikes again.

What is it about people who have large bikes that they feel that they have a right to squeeze their oversized bikes into gaps a scooter will struggle with and end up scratching my bike?

Only a couple of scuffs that I can probably fix, but for f**k's sake, if the gaps too small, piss off an park somewhere else.

Just cause your bike's banged up doesn't mean you can bang mine up!

Grrrrr.

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... And this morning I've dropped my brand new Caberg carbon helmet... Massive crack in the top

That's 2 bits of bad news... Just waiting for the third

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A crack? What would have happened if it had been involved on an accident?

I think they should be giving you your money back...

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Yeah that too, though it actually hit a sharp corner of stone pretty hard right on the 'flat' top of the helmet from up on top of my topbox (which I NEVER do in case if exactly this event!) straight down

I kinda saw it in slow motion as I was yelling "Noooooo!"

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Pash is right, what good is a helmet if it cracks open when dropped from a couple of feet? it is supposed to protect you if you fall off a motorcycle, even at Buell speeds you will be travelling a bit faster than that! Disgraceful rubbish.....

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Of course you're right, but I might be over egging the pudding - it's on obvious crack, not like it's split in 2

Either way I much doubt any of my previous helmets would have survived the same fall and impact.

Hmm... Maybe they would...

Anyhow... I guess I'll be off to the helmet store in Saturday for something NOT carbon.

(and write a letter to Caberg...)

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Not sure that it's a carbon problem.....I bashed an HJC carbon affair pretty heavily (can't do light crashes when one is a lardy incompetent) at Pembrey a couple of years ago, it went back through scrutineering and I used it for the rest of the meeting .....

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Sounds like a manufaturing defect....

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must be to much lard

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That's bad luck Eugene, and worse than that I've just bought the same helmet !

Well, hopefully mine was just an unlucky 'bounce' ?

I went via a bike shop last night and bought a Shark S900 in the graphite colour on sale for £160 - it's also got a 4-star Sharp rating compared to the Caberg Carbon's 3-stars

Really comfy and so far no issues, so £160 down, but happy with it

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