Hello!

I was riding my bike on a nice fall day, and I was probably going a little bit fast. When I was going down my driveway, the front wheel of my bike started to wobble. I didn't know what was happening. My feet came off of the pedals and the bike twisted and turned, and I knew I was going to crash. And sure enough, I was right! I crashed next to a big bush.

When I started to get up, everything was a little blurry, and I saw a lot of blood on the ground. My toes were cut very badly because I was foolishly wearing flip flops. (This part was from my Dad.) One of the brake handles was broken off, and my bike was scraped and beat up. I started to feel pain in my left wrist. The pain felt deep! My Dad said it was probably bruised, and put ice on it. The next day, it only felt worse. We went to the emergency room, and I found out my wrist was broken. My toes still hurt really badly, too. When we got home, my dad and I talked about wearing the proper gear for riding a bike. Flip flops are not allowed.

We looked at my helmet, and I was upset that it was scraped up so much. Dad said the helmet saved my "nut" from getting cracked. He also said I couldn't use the helmet any more because we can't be sure that its OK. Now, I was REALLY upset. My brother gave me the helmet the previous Christmas, and I love that helmet! How cool is the watermelon?!

I have recovered, my wrist is fine, my toes are almost healed. Dad repaired my bike and I will be ready to ride when the weather gets warmer.

So, I wanted to thank all of you at Nutcase for making a helmet that saved my life! It has been the one piece of safety gear that I always wear.

Sincerely,
Camille

I was running late the other day and noticed there was a light drizzle, so I threw on my rain jacket and ventured out onto the slick busy streets. I was in such a rush to leave I ALMOST forgot my helmet! Thank God I didn't! I was booking on the way to work because I was already late, still obeying all the laws though, had my safety lights on, riding in far right lane, when a car decided to make a left turn from a side street and cut me off! I hit my brakes and since the road was wet my tires shot out from under me, causing me to be parallel to the ground while still on the bike! The first thing to hit the street was the left side of my helmet, i just remember the sound! I was in pain and out of it so I was taken to the ER where a CAT scan was taken. I had a concussion but every doctor thanked me for wearing my helmet and said it definitely saved me from a lot of trouble! Thanks to my Nutcase I only missed one day of work and had a headache, I don't even want to know what would have happened if i wasn't wearing it! I'll never even come close to forgetting it ever again, Thank you everyone at Nutcase, I love my brain!!

Sincerely & Thankfully,

Ted

Hello Nutcase Team!

I recently saw the Watermelon helmet on your website and I immediately fell in love-- My favorite food is watermelon and I knew this helmet would be "the one".  I found a dealer in Culver City, California, got fitted and ordered one (they were out of stock).

When I got my helmet in late July, I wore it every single time I went out for a ride, feeling confident and stylish. I never really thought that I would need a helmet for protection since I ride as safely as I can every time I'm on my bike. I wore my helmet just because it was so damn cool.

Two nights ago I had my first spill on my bike. My head bounced on the asphalt and slid. My helmet cracked as I slammed against the street and I went to the ER. Luckily I had no concussion or any brain injury.

My nutcase helmet saved my life.

I want to thank the Nutcase Team for creating such stylish and comfortable helmets. Without that helmet, my head would be the one that cracked against the asphalt. Thank you again for saving my life -- I can't wait to ride until I get another helmet!

Nutcase Team, You Rock!!

Sincerely,
Vicky

Hello!

I was recently hit by a car while biking in downtown Vancouver. I was heading straight down a road, the driver didn't see me and turned left directly into me.

I went up on to the hood of the car, broke the windshield with my head (blacked out at some point) flew off the car, regained consciousness in the air, thought to myself "oh my God, I need to land on my feet", somehow managed to rotate myself in the air, landed FEET FIRST and fell on to the road.

That day as I got on to my bike, I put my Nutcase helmet on as usual, but this time, for some reason, gave it an extra little adjustment, just to make sure it was sitting nice and snug on my head.

Yesterday my brother, Adam, was riding his bike home from work in Calgary. He was riding pretty fast down a hill... a van didn't see him and pulled out into the intersection he was crossing. He doesn't remember the accident, but what we do know is that he smashed through the passenger side window into the van then was propelled back out and on to the street.

The paramedic looked at Adam's Nutcase helmet and was amazed... straight up telling him "yep, if you hadn't been wearing this, you would be dead".

Your helmets have saved both mine and my brother's lives.

To say we are grateful for the quality of your products is the understatement of the century. Unfortunately, however, I have no other way of putting it...

So thank you... THANK YOU!!!! A million thank yous! (And I believe it is safe to say, the same gratitude is being extended from our parents).

Keep doing what you do.

Thank you,

Hali

I just wanted to say 'thank you' to everyone there at Nutcase for making these helmets!

On August 6, 2010 my Nutcase helmet saved my life.

The last thing I remember from that ride is racing from work to pick up my car from the shop because my husband and I were leaving for a backpacking trip for our tenth wedding anniversary. I woke in the ambulance on my way to the hospital and was told that I had been in an accident. My tire had blown and somehow come off of my bike, how I do not know. According to the EMT report, witnesses who called in the accident stated I was traveling over 20 mph. I was thrown over the handlebars, landing on my head.

What the doctors told my husband in the ER was that the helmet saved me two-fold. The front of my head was protected from being smashed in from the initial impact. Second, because of the design, the back of the helmet most likely prevented my spinal cord from being severed due to the snapping back of my neck.

While I did knock out my four front teeth, broke my nose, jaw and had stitches all through my top and inside my bottom lips, what did not happen were any lasting BRAIN ISSUES! I was a little rattled for a few months, but that is all in the past now. I was told later by my boss that initially I had hopped on my bike, was gone for a minute but came back in saying 'I can't believe I just left without my helmet!'. I put on my helmet and rode off...

I really do hope that my new Nutcase still says 'I LOVE MY BRAIN'! because I do, as do my family and friends. We are all true believers and wearers of the Nutcase! I had the best caretakers in the world, but they only had someone to take care of because I was still in tact!

So once again, THANK YOU folks at NUTCASE HELMETS!

With much gratitude and love,

Ticari

Thank you, Nutcase.

If it weren't for you, I would have had a major head injury today. In trying to avoid a head-on collision with a boy who was biking on the wrong side of the bike path (and whose adult companions were inattentive), I flew over my handle bars and landed on my forehead. I had to get two stitches in my chin, my lip is fairly busted, two teeth are loose, I lost skin on the tips of three fingers, and it hurts to move, but my brain was not broken. Your helmet really did save my life. I hung it up, still covered in my bloody hand prints, as a badge of honor.

A thousand times, thank you.

Tasha

I have to start off and say thank you for making a quality product. I just recently got into a bad longboarding accident that left my Nutcase helmet cracked down the back, up to the crown and the foam shattered within. It saved my life...the impact I took should have killed me and I was lucky enough to be wearing your helmet. I was going down a hill I have gone many times before...I don't know what exactly happened, all I know is that your helmet saved my life.

I bought it for a cross country trip and I wore it for every minute of the ride because I understand the importance of having our groms wear the right gear and keep them alive. Ever since we got back I have been using it, no matter what I was doing on a board, and I have been forcing people to wear their helmets. After my accident, where I came out with nothing more than some scraped skin and a major case of headaches, everyone of my skating buddies has realized the importance of wearing a helmet and it's done nothing but make me happy. All in all this email is mainly to say thank you so much for creating a product that works. Again, thank you for helping me keep myself alive.

Your loyal customer,

Brian

Hey Nutcase,

My story isn't insane or anything, I just feel compelled to say 'thank you' for making rad helmets that are fun to wear. I ride my bicycle everywhere, and as it happens, I got hit head-on by a car last night. I shattered the windshield, flipped over the car and landed on the other side.

Despite all that, I walked away from the accident with my brains intact. All the ER nurses were impressed with my Evel Knievel-style helmet.

Thanks for being awesome.

Libbie

I was riding in a bike lane on a busy street in Chicago, in my Superstar Nutcase helmet - mostly white and very visible. I always ride really far from the cars, at the traffic-edge of the bike lane, simply because Chicago is lethal for bikes because drivers still don't consider them. Anyway, when I was merely 5 feet from it, a parked car door flew open. I was going about 9 mph, so I had zero time to react. Given my injuries, I must have jolted to the left to avoid it, but it was no use. The door smashed my finger against my right handlebar, which sent my bike way off balance and threw me into oncoming traffic. Sadly, a passing car (going about 30mph) rammed me and sent me flying. It all happened in about .8 seconds - that's my guess, anyway. My eyes were shut immediately afer the door opened, so I never saw the car coming. I just felt a tremendous impact and went flying, blinked out for a second, and came to on the pavement about a half a block up the street.

When I landed, I went down on my right side, scraping up my leg bad while sliding on it, banging my head on the ground REALLY hard, but the helmet protected me totally. My left elbow was shattered, but no blood, and i had on a sweater and a jacket, so that was good. The ER put a cast on, I had a surgery three days later and they rigged up a fake joint with a steel plate and four screws.

I had to work my butt off to get my full range of motion back, but I got it all back, though the bones catch on one another and konk really loudly and painfully, and it feels like it's in a vice when I extend it really hard. But oh well, such is life. I'm not dead or brain damaged or crippled, so i'll take a funky elbow any day!

;-)

Saturday the 13th July 2011, I had a bit of a crash, riding REALLY fast (maybe 16 mph) on a cement bike path, hit an uneven surface and the bike slid out from under me, and I went sailing through the air.

I landed about twelve feet from the bike, on the side of my head, in front of a dozen people - mostly lifesavers. They immobilized me and called an ambulance immediately, with sirens and lights flashing. The noise of the helmet hitting the cement was SO LOUD, according to all the witnesses, there could be no way I could not have sustained a neck injury. Apparently it was LOUD, LOUD, LOUD. The general consensus was that without the helmet, the impact of my head on the concrete at 16 mph would have split my head like a tomato.

Emergency Department x-rays showed no damage to the head or neck - so THANK YOU NUTCASE.  One broken elbow is not too bad an outcome I think.

Cheers and thank you for the BEST HELMET in the world.

Louise,
A Genuine Nutcase and Silly Old Duck

I am a 50 year old Mom of six children who lives in Queens, NY and was riding on a Saturday morning. A guy speeding around the corner cut me off and I had to quickly pull the brakes for an emergency stop! Well, I didn't hit the rear quarter panel of the car but I did go flying over the handlebars with my bike following behind me.

I then found myself on the ground, entangled in the bike..light broken off, wheel and handlebars bent, some ripped clothing and skin..but, alas, my Nutcase was all scraped up and MY brain wasnt in pain! Hurray! My kids and I thank you!

Happy day!