[Ben]

I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t done that before, granted, it’s never happend 3 times on the same ride!!!

Ben
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[Ben]

No worries, I got you covered.

Ben
~Best Beginner Motorcycles Admin

[Ben]

Nothing!!!

I only own a motorcycle, haha, maybe that is why I am so obsessed.

Ben
~Best Beginner Motorcycles Admin

[Ben]

Hey Booze,

I’m glad you like the site, around here there are more squids than responsible riders as well so having a place like BBM is a nice refuge from the squidly stupidity. As a side note, this site was pretty good without the forum, but as soon as I added it the quality has improved 100 fold! I feel lucky that there are so many awesome people that are willing to share their knowledge at a place like this.

Ben
~Best Beginner Motorcycles Admin

[Ben]

It will have them again once I upgrade servers.

Ben
~Best Beginner Motorcycles Admin

[Ben]

Thats a nice set of knockers

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[Ben]

She sounds like one of the people that wants to ride for looks and not ride to ride. I would give up the bike battle and concentrate all fronts on proper gear. She will most likely crash her bike in the 30-40mph range and if she has the proper gear then she is more likely to walk away without serious injury.

Ben
~Best Beginner Motorcycles Admin

[Ben]

Yeah this site far from pays the bills, in fact sometimes it has trouble paying its own hosting bills!! So I work a day job fixing bicycles.

Ben
~Best Beginner Motorcycles Admin

[Ben]

No worries Booze I appreciate the thought though.

Ben
~Best Beginner Motorcycles Admin

[Ben]

Thanks fotobits!

Maybe in the future I could implement a special title under peoples avatars to show that they have donated. Would anyone be interested in that?

Ben
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[Ben]

Hehe, its funny I’m kind of the opposite way now. I used to be 100% for snell and then I read some really good arguments why snell might not be the best test, and why it might even put your brain in more danger. Basically a quick 1 sentence summary of the many pages I’ve read on the subject is as follows:

For a helmet to pass Snell it generally requires harder (and therefore sometimes thinner) foam then a helmet that only has to to pass DOT.

Having harder foam means that the helmet will be able to take more than 1 impact in the same place, but it also results in your brain being slammed harder against the side of your skull then you would have with a softer/thicker foam that might only be rated to take 1 impact. Anyway, I don’t want to get in a huge debate about this, but that is the super short version of my thoughts. I would definitely encourage you to research the Snell/dot debate further if it interests you. I think we can all agree that having any type of helmet is lots better than having no helmet at all.

Ben
~Best Beginner Motorcycles Admin

[Ben]

Thanks very much man

I shot you an e-mail.

Ben
~Best Beginner Motorcycles Admin

[Ben]

The expanded profile page has been thought of, but not a gallery. I think both are great ideas and are on the list of things to do

Ben
~Best Beginner Motorcycles Admin

[Ben]

Haha damn, I’ll have to watch for that. It seems like after a while you get to know the roads and where the potholes are etc… there was a spot like that on 87 south for a while, but they have since fixed it.

Ben
~Best Beginner Motorcycles Admin

[Ben]

It’s not a BBM ride if i’m not there! lol

It seems like i’m too damn busy these days to ride. Let me know how it goes!

Ben
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