[CR] RE: Skid-lid

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From: "Val and Kevin Ko" <keiko5@comcast.net>
To: "'classicrendezvous'" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] RE: Skid-lid
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:19:03 -0700
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They were relatively popular here. The choices at the time were the Bell (no style points, but I wore it), Skid-lid which I thought looked pretty cool, the MSR (Mountain Safety Research) helmet that my wife wore and looked like a mountaineering helmet, and the ProTec, which looked like a detuned hockey helmet. The Skid-lid was fiberglass shelled, which some thought provided maximum protection, the nay-sayers argued that the gaps allowed you head to be exposed to sharp objects like branches and handlebars. If you really want to know what the head-gear mentality was back then, leather hair-nets still met the helmet requirement for USCF racing. Most racers trained bare-headed and only used head-gear because it was required for racing.

Kevin Ko

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