 I'm not letting you out on the road again. I'm not gonna wear it out on the road. Do you have another one already? Yeah, I do. Have you recorded me? Yeah. That's what this video is about. Yeah. I'm angry at you. You just look inside. So that was my wife who has recently gotten into the activity of road cycling and I shared something with her that I wanna share with you. This happened to me recently and it shocked me. And it happened in front of a group of other experienced road cyclists and I got made to look like quite the dickhead. It was a big wake up call and it just might have saved my cycling life and it just might do the same for you too. But before I share this story, I've now published over 100 videos on this channel over at the course of say 13, 14 months and never before have I asked anyone to share a video. But in this video today, I would really appreciate if you could share this message because you just never know who it might hit and we could potentially save somebody's life. So here's what happened to me. Many of my subscribers will know I recently completed my level one cycling coaching course in order to become a cycling coach and as part of the learning process, you do practicals where you pretend to be a cycling coach and you get people to do skills and all sorts of things. And before people do anything with their bikes as a coach, what do you think our first priority is? That's right, the helmet, safety and before even putting the helmet on, what do you think you do? You look around the helmet and inside the helmet. Why would you do that? To check and see if the helmet has been compromised if there are any cracks. Now, how do cracks happen? All right, that's right. People fall off their bikes, myself included as you could see there. They fall onto their heads and then they crack their helmets. Now, if you crack a helmet, you put it straight in the bin. That's not a basketball player. He shoots! Oh, he shoots! I bet Holly gets it in a hole in one. Go, Holly, go, girl! She shoots! Oh! He shoots! He scores! Not very technical. So once the helmet has been compromised, there are cracks. It goes straight in the bin because if you ride with a helmet which has a crack in it and you come off your bike there is a very strong probability that whatever injury that occurs to you is either more severe or potentially fatal. So the cracked helmet goes straight in the bin. Here's what happened to me during our practicals. We were pretending to check our helmets and bang, I had a massive crack. This is a different helmet now because my old helmet has now been ripped apart by my dog. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Had a massive crack down the middle here. Yeah, it's fucked. That's really bad, babe. There's something moving in. That's your dead skull there. I couldn't bloody believe it. I've never crashed with that helmet. Now after everyone's chuckles died down, I started to think, how did this happen? When did this happen? How long have I been riding with a compromised helmet? You see, normally I ride in the morning where it's dark, I put the helmet on my head, ride, come home, take it straight off, into the shower, and then I get into my day. So I never stopped to perform this very, very simple check. And I started to ponder, how long had I been riding like this for? What if I had come off my bike with a compromised helmet? Luckily, I haven't. And I'm very, very fortunate for that fact. But what I want you to do, this is a very simple test. The next time you go for a bike ride, or even now if the helmet is close by and you haven't done this, just look inside. See if there's potentially any cracks that have occurred. Who knows why? Maybe someone stood on it, you didn't even realize. Maybe one of your kids. I've got two young kids. Have you girls been throwing around my helmet? No. You sure about that? This though, look at this. Your old helmets make an incredible Jason mask for Halloween in the very home. Awesome, yeah. Have been playing with it. They've banged it. They've dropped it. Something's happened to it. When you haven't been around and to ensure that your helmet hasn't been compromised, just perform a simple scan, a simple check. And hopefully it's all good and you can ride out the door. But if not, chuck it in the bin. You just might have saved your life. Go buy a new helmet and happy riding.