helmet or no helmet

Every single helmet legal for sale in the USofA that IS NOT a novelty helmet will adequately protect your sputnik. By law, you must be informed that those $4 soup-bowl-with-a-chin-strap pieces of crap are not DOT rated. While I will not start a helmet war, AGAIN, it basically boils down to bells & whistles. If you like your Vega helmet & it fits you, that's all that matters.

It took me 2 full minutes to stop laughing long enough to type this. This man should be nominated for the next Nobel Prize for literary achievement.

KC-10 FE out...
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That was a good laugh.

From what I hear ur leggs are gonna get scared up no matter what you wear. I kno from experience there is no difference between slacks and jeans. Darn wet pavement.

 

Yea pavement digs through jeans and leather gloves quick but jeans are still better than bare legs.

 

Another reason to wear a helmet.....

 

I would and do.

 

Motorcycle or Donorcycle

When you ride with a helmet, you ride a motorcycle. When you ride without a helmet, you ride a donorcycle! I don't believe our state governments should dictate whether we wear a helmet or not...it should be our choice...but my choice it to wear one at all times. Your head is only worth as much as your helmet. Doesn't say much for the HD riders, does it?

 

Orrrrr...if you are a McCain (or any Republican) supporter, don't worry about the decision or whether or not to wear a helmet. Just shoot yourself in the head before you saddle up for a ride!

 

I wear a helmet all the time. I used to ride around the neighborhood without one when I was working on the bike. But then my son had an accident on his 600rr back on July 10th. We are still not sure what happened but he lost control and went down and crashed into a parked car. He was separated from the bike before hitting the car, and then the bike and him impacted it. He ended up getting wedged underneath the car and needless to say his helmet got wedged with him. I'll see if I can get pictures of the helmet to show you guys but it was a Scorpian and the chin bar was completely fractured. The only thing holding it together was the padding. The helmet also had a hole in it, probably from a bolt or piece of metal under the car. The face sheild was busted from the helmet on the right side and was completely scratced opaque end to end.

If my son wasn't wearing the helmet we would have lost him that night. We almost did even though he had it on. He ended up busting his pelvis into about 8 pieces. The doctors at Cooper Trauma managed to piece him back together and he just started to walk without his crutches or cane last Wednesday.

So I now wear a helmet all the time, even after working on the bike and riding it down the street just to see how its running. Best as we can tell my son was going about 45 when he went down. Doesn't take much to mess the knoggin up.

 

If you're an Obama supporter, remove your helmet, put your bike on the center stand, pin the throttle in sixth gear, & stick your head in the rear wheel (right side).

 

It's not the law in AZ, but I always wear mine unless I am riding the bike down the street to check something out after working on it. Leave the brainbuckets and doo-rag helmets to the HD crowd. Even if I go to a cruiser later in life I will still wear a full-face.

I have crashed twice and both times it saved me from having a smashed in face! ATGATT

 

I think wearing a helmet should be a matter of choice. That said, anyone who does ride without a helmet should be required to have medical insurance sufficant to cover the bills if they go and use a highway guard rail to scramble their brains. In short, go and ride without a helmet, just don't expect me, a taxpayer, to help with your medical bills. Myself, I've always ridden with a full helmet and gloves (short fingered type) but other than those I'd worn a t-shirt and regular jeans until I was forced to sell my bike in 96. After 8 years, 1 month, 5 days, 21 hrs and 30 minutes (Not that I was counting, mind you) I got my VFR and started riding with an Oklahoma Sport-bike group, Speed-Tribe. Through friendly (and persistant) peer pressure I started wearing an armored jacket, armored full-fingered gloves, armored boots and comfortable, re-enforced at impact points, jeans and now I simply can't enjoy the ride without the gear...

PS: Speed-Tribe ROCKS!!!!

 

When my wife and i got married we went camping for our honeymoon. we passed by a place that rented atvs and she wanted to do that for a day.

She tipped the bike, a smaller 4 wheel bike, on the very first bank.

We picked up some riding gloves before because she liked the color and wanted to look cute. The bike landed on her hand and cut clean through the glove, but not her hand.

 

Unfortunately I don't have to the guy riding a Harley in the bed next to me while in the emergency room painted a very clear image of what a good idea a full face helmet is. Lets just say I was happier than him.

 

Haha, around here also cold is another reson, the guys with the mask and the brain bucket freezing as i enjoy my helmet.



I will Always where a helmet, simply because if and when i do fall i want it there. I don't care if the only color was hot pink and puke green..i would wear it.
I only have one head...it may be hard to live without it.

I have riden without a helmet thoguh in stugis once around town and it was neat hearing everything..but not at all worth it and i felt quite naked and exposed.

 

I for one will always wear a helmet (and as much gear as I can stand to wear). Fortunatly I was wearing helmet, gloves, boots, pants and jacket when I went down (45mph). The road rash on my right elbow was all that I got (other than broken bones which gear won't prevent). As a physician, all I can say is that instead of one night in the hospital, I would have had many more if I did not have a helmet on.
There is something to be said about paying for your own medical bills if you choose to not wear a helmet. Lifetime care for someone to wipe your vegetable ass costs alot. Unless you are independently wealthy, you are pushing that cost onto the taxpayers.

 

oh yeah, thanks to my jacka$$ friends who took pictures of me in the hospital.

 

This was perfect... I have two helmets scratched on the side from minor slow, stupid mishaps. In both cases, if I did not have my full-face helmet on, my jaw would have been shaved down to the bone. I will always wear my helmet.

 

Based on personal experience and a few crashes over the years I would NEVER ride without a full face helmet that fits properly and is in good condition. An interesting story; a neighbour down the street asked me what I thought of skull cap type helmets so of course I told him they were useless. He didn't listen to me and now rides with one. The interesting part is that he is a doctor with a young kid. You think he would now better. so far he is Ok but.....

 

Always. I have gone down and though my head did not hit I cannot imagine the damage, likely death, that would happen if it had. That was only at 45 on the shoulder, might I add.

The overwhelming factor for me though is the number of people I know who have gone down and had their lives saved by one. Not all are so fortunate. When I was very young (kindergarten age) my family lost a very close friend in an accident while we were living in Turkey; a bus cut him off on his BMW, causing him to clip the back of it and smash head first through and on coming cars wind shield.

Lastly (and I shall retire my soap box) so many people want to ride like and at the level and intensity of Moto GP/SBK. Fine. But do you see them riding that way without a helmet? How many of them would ride without one if they could?

 

Wanna know why I (and anyone on my bike with me) will never ride without a helmet? In 85 I was stationed at Holloman AFB in New Mexico where there was this one asshole who apparently lived to bully people. Since I hate bullies, me and him did NOT get along well and we both made several visits to the ER due our basic disagreement each over the other's right to live without bandages. He got orders to Japan but while on leave got into an accident on an ATV (trike version) sans helmet and suffered some brain damage. When he was returned to Holloman, he was nice, friendly and courtious, with a friendly smile for everybody, even me. He remembered everything but was not the guy who left to "screw every b**** Jap on that S***hole island". It was like his soul had been replaced, he was NOT the person who's idea of a friendly goodbye was trying to sucker punch me in the back with a baseball bat, that guy was GONE yet his body was still walking and talking. I don't know who or what came back but it WAS NOT HIM. For me, there is nothing more teriffying than the lost of mind, personality and to this day, just thinking about how he acted, the look in his eyes that was just simply WRONG, shakes me to my soul.