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HIGH-TECH CHAIN MAIL

s strange as it may seem, Sir Lancelot and his boys’round the table may have been on to something that could save the modern motorcyclist. No, I’m not suggesting we all attach a jousting lance to our bikes, the better to skewer all the idiots trying to turn left in front of us. Nor am I suggesting that there is some mythical motorcycling Holy Grail possessing magical healing powers. Rather I am talking about the chain mail the warriors — the most pure of them all, of seems convinced that something closely resembling those medieval links of steel could offer motorcyclists protection in the event of a crash.

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