HELMET LAWS SUCK!!!

[Bumblebee]

+1 All these Govt. regulations aren't to prevent you from "living life free with the wind in your hair", they are in place to prevent you from riding headlong into someone at 70mph.

A few are. Most aren't.

[Shaivong]

Of course, there is recourse built in for all of this; you can just get enough private property to allow you to ride helmet-less on. Alternatively, it's a simple fine to be riding w/o a helmet, so you could just make enough money to pay the fines when you get caught.

[ariwhiteboy]

Alternatively, it's a simple fine to be riding w/o a helmet, so you could just make enough money to pay the fines when you get caught.

But will you have enough for the resulting hospital (or funeral) bill when you go down with no lid?

[Hangster]

Every once in a while, a meteor falls out of the sky and hits someone in the head too. You can't sensibly prepare for that one in a 5 trillion chance while ignoring the other 5trillion-1 much higher probability scenarios...especially the ones that have a near 100% chance of what happens

You're not kidding BB
http://www.dba-oracle.com/news_meteor_strikes_may_hit_people.htm

I don't know if anyone seen the show 1,000 ways to die but there was one just on this and real crazy , it's your choice to wear a helmet or not so do what you will , nothing can save you if your time is up.

[Ol School]

Helmet laws suck ...taxes suck ..gas prices suck ..and sometimes life sucks .
I flash back to the year 1969 my good friend is loading his bike for a trip to Atlanta ...he`s on his way to the Atlanta Pop Fest ....he leaves town his bike is loaded with camping equipment and a full tank of gas .
He is wearing moses sandles cut off jeans and sun glasses .....boy did he look cool in the saddle .
Next time I saw him he was in the ER ......a nice lady hit him as he was entering the hwy ...he was a human scab from the top of his head to the tip of his toes he had slid 300 ft on the hwy on his front ,back, head ,toes ............geeze he didn`t look so cool anymore  
so is it worth it ..its your arse right ..

[Medina]

In 1978, I had the dubious distinction of being one of the first Ohioans to get a ticket for riding with no helmet.
You see, the law passed, but didn't go into effect for a few weeks.
I was so cool. Didn't mess up my hair, awesome.
at the time, I had this chopper, about a 4 degree rake, sissy bar, semi-ape hangers, 19 and just having the time of my life.
Rode a lot, never had any close calls, few lay downs, but the way it worked out I used my hands and butt to say hairy side up.

One day, a pal let me use his dirt bike this was in 1980 I recall, awesome thing, loud, fast, knobbys kicked dirt every where.
He forced me to wear his full face helmet. It sucked, stank, sweaty, and I laid it down, skidded about 30 miles an hour on my face, my hands and arms pinned under me, powerless to do anything but watch the slide show inches from my nose.
I will not ride a bike with out helmet now, you got to have a freaking screw loose. no shorts, no flip flops, no tank tops...now I'm over 50, I want to see over 70.

Theres more to 'gear' than a helmet.
Check the kid sammiched in there!

[red78ta]

I don't particularly care if someone kills themselves, just don't hurt me while you're doing yourself in.

+1 All these Govt. regulations aren't to prevent you from "living life free with the wind in your hair", they are in place to prevent you from riding headlong into someone at 70mph.

wearing a helmet wont prevent you from riding headlong into someone at 70mph (consequently neither will a 65mph speed limit or any other piece of safety gear or law for that matter).

I don't agree with helmet laws, i don't agree with a lot of laws.  I believe in personal freedom and personal responsibility.  For me its a non-issue, as long as I stay in the Coast Guard I have to wear a helmet, sturdy over the ankle shoes (i wear steel toed boots), long sleeve shirt, full finger gloves and pants at a bare minimum (i wear jeans and a jacket and gloves), and if i go down not wearing it, the gov't can refuse to pay benefits to me or my survivors (as can my insurance policy).  Heck when on base i even have to wear this reflective sash thing that is TOTALLY foolish looking b/c i have a black jacket (which is one reason when i was looking for a new jacket i picked a white one, besides being more visible at night, i'll be able to ditch the sash on base).

I'd never ride w/o the gear b/c i like my face, and i like my family too, and i like to think that they like having me around, even if its just for comic relief.  But, if i wanted to ride without one, i think i ought to be able to. 

Also, everyone agrees they don't want to pay for someone else's medical bills, yada yada yada, well guess what, if a helmet saves someone's life, you're still going to end up paying for their medical bills b/c of the road rash they'll get from wearing a t-shirt, so maybe if they had no helmet they would have just died and the portion of their bill your taxes would have covered would be less...  maybe?  You can slice that pie anyway you want,

Besides I think that argument is asinine b/c guess what, if you are against your tax dollars covering another person's medical expenses, then forget helmet laws for goodness sakes and lobby gov't so that your tax dollars don't pay for that.  you know how many medical bills you pay for daily due to things OTHER than MC crashes?  That's gotta be like 1% of the pie on that one or something (totally a WAG but reasonable assumption i think).

So to sum up, I wear ATGATT, but don't think anyone should be required to.

[red78ta]

Oh I also don't think its your fault if you die b/c some idiot in a cage smashed into you when you weren't wearing a helmet.  It always bugs me when someone on a MC gets killed by a drunk driver or some other idiot and the first thing people say is, well he wasn't wearing a helmet... maybe the cager should have smashed into him, or driven drunk!  I mean, you're still dead, so who really cares who's fault it was, but people seem to want to throw it back on the MC rider, as if he wouldn't have been smashed into and everything would have been fine had he been wearing a helmet... 

that just bugs me.  but as i said before, i'm ATGATT, hopefully i never need it, but if i do i'll walk away hopefully b/c of it.