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@mstone 212147 wrote:

there are no bike trails on the virginia side of the bridge. they’re supposed to build one along 495, but seeing how quickly the i66 trail was downgraded I’ll withhold judgment on that. in theory you could connect to the PHT but I don’t really see much value in doing so (it’s a long walk to there from anywhere, so the number of people doing that would probably be really low). given the nature of the PHT you could always just put in a big ladder down from the bridge sometime in the future if it seemed necessary.

Let me rephrase that from being no trail connections to any connections of any type. It seems to me that there would be no way to get off in Virginia after crossing the bridge.

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Am I missing something, or is there no connection to any trail on the Virginia side of the bridge?

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Thanks for this information. I learned something new today. Not bad for an old fart.

Thanks

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I am not sure what you are calling a mouth port. I also was not present when the bike fell, so I am basing these comments on the pictures provided in the first post. If I am incorrect in interpreting the pictures, I apologize. It appears to me that the damage was caused by a force directed from the bottom of the helmet towards the top. This would be perpendicular to the force that the helmet would be designed to protect. This is evidenced by the thickness being much larger in the front to back direction than the top to bottom. l am not a helmet designer and am making assumptions on what goes into helmet design, but am describing what I would expect to be primary considerations. It appears to me that what happened is not what would be wanted, but would not fall within the expected parameters of what a helmet is designed to accomplish.

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You seem to forget that the purpose of the helmet is to spread the impact. The impact is a higher pressure on a smaller area where the impact occurs on the helmet. The pressure on the head is spread out over the larger area where the helmet touches the head. In this impact the pressure had to be absorbed by a few areas with a much smaller surface area. This actually increases the pressure at these points. I am not sure I am getting the idea across properly, but the fact that the helmet was not on the head had a lot to do with it breaking. It is not designed to absorb the stresses that occurred in this instance.

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@dkel 148098 wrote:

Actually, horses are at the bottom. I’ve never seen a ninja horse, though…

Of course not, they’re Ninjas.

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@Raymo853 127408 wrote:

Conclusion or contusion?

Concussion!

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@JimK 57598 wrote:

New construction along the W&OD.

More specifically, W&OD at Smiths Switch Road

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OOO,OOO,OOO Topsail Island, N.C for the rectangular building

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