From the article: Motorcycling Safety Gear
Some people choose to wear a helmet for safety, but many people don a lid simply because it's the law. Do you have a helmet law where you live, and if so, is that the reason you wear a helmet? And if you don't have a helmet law, do you choose to wear one anyway-- or do you ride without a helmet? Let us know! Share your reason!
I always wear a helmet
- I chose to wear a helmet but I believe thats my choice. There should be no law. Save yourself if you want .
- —Guest Donald Charles
"Know Safety, No Pain"
- It is really a personal choice and in special, it is mostly related to culture and age! I am now 44yrs of age, and I remember when I was between 10 and 29, I only wore helmets because of the LAW, or because I needed to hide my YOUG face, even that, I used to ride without HELMET once in a while and risking being caught by COPS ! Ever since I was on my 30's, I could never find any reason WHY I should ride without a helmet, as it protects you from many things like stones, bugs, rain, wind, FOD, etc. not to mention that it will drastically increase your chance of survival in an accident. YES, " Know Safety, No Pain " Brazeagle "The former Yamaha RD350 Brazilian Racer"
- —Guest brazeagle
wearing vs not wearing
- first, let me say i am a safety officer and a road capt for panther creek and have been in chapter for 12 yrs...... that being said, i wear a helmet out of choice. a helmet has never prevented a crash, while a helmet has caused a crash due to reduced peripheral vision. while the helmet saves your head (most of the time) in a crash it brings with it neck injuries.... the best use of the brain bucket is the brain. use yer friggin brain people, get some sort of riding education. while MSF is a good school to take, find somewhere that bunches of folks are gathering in a parking lot once a week and go weave thru cones. develop riding skills that will save your asp and learn techniques that allow you to swerve, brake OR accelerate to get beyond potential 'cage' hazard. its time to study, folks, its time to study..... go learn then go ride, and USE YOUR BRAIN. affectionately, crazy ed (62 yrs old and still riding every day in dallas texas.)
- —Guest crazy ed
Always
- My feeling on helmets is this. I care about my life so I wear a helmet. The people who don't wear helmets probably aren't very important members of society anyway. After all, they aren't even smart enough to put a helmet on when sitting on a high powered machine. The possibility of someone as dumb as this breeding and producing another idiot who thinks helmets are unnecessary is scary so I rather enjoy the fact that these folks don't wear helmets and hope they get into major fatal crashes because we don't need these people watering down the gene pool.
- —Guest Quimbly
Idiots
- I don't see why anyone would ride a motorcycle without a helmet. They am say, "Oh, I won't get in an accident or a crash" but that's the reason it's called an accident! You don't know if it will or won't happen!
- —Guest Jimmy
Helmet always
- I wear a helmet when I ride my motorcycle, mountain bike and when I drive my SCCA autocross car. Blunt force brain trauma is the worst possible outcome of a crash. I will risk breaking my neck and deal with the inconvenience (yeah, like that is sooo bad) to portect my brain. I do not believe that helmet laws should exist. It is all about choice. Why interfere with natural selection? Those who believe that helmets cause mroe problems than they solve are often teh same people who believe seatbelts do more harm by trapping you in an accident than they do by stopping you from exiting your vehicle the hard way. Too each his own. Just don't expect me to pay to keep drooling brain-damaged accident victimes alive due to not taking saftey precautions. Live how you like, but don't expect others to pay for it or agree.
- —Guest Moparman
Wear!
- I think people dont't usually wear a helmet because sometimes, maybe their house is too close from where they work, they predict there won't be an accident.
- —Guest mia
motorcycle helmets
- I personally think people get tired of putting on and taking off all the gear.They get careless over time when nothing bad happens.Just this week at Thunder beach a gentleman who endorsed and adovacated wearing a helmet didn't wear his the one time it mattered,so sad for his family.I don't understand why with all the distracted vehicle behavoirs that car drivers do why would you not want to increase youre chances of survival.I wear one everytime plus air on impact jacket boots,gloves.
- —Guest sandra
NO
- Helmets might save your head but in a crash there gonna put more damage on your neck id rather die then be crippled for the rest of my life a lesson i learned from my grandpa who broke his spine he ended up killing himself because he couldnt take not being able to use his legs
- —Guest Aaron
Within Reason
- I've been riding for at least 8 years now, I know not long. I come from the racing aspect of things, and know first hand that I'd rather "eat it" on the track than the street anyday and I have had some good ones too. I'm all for riding without a helmet, say if I was in low speed congested area like Rome or some rural areas like the midwest. But for me, I prefer a helmet especially being in Southern California(lot of clueless drivers), law or not, it's just absolutely stupid not to there. (Although it would be nice to run HWY 1 w/out:])
- —Guest trackguy
I have to.
- Right now I'm in the Police State of California, I have to wear one, people are still getting killed here, so helmets don't always work. I'm a freedom-loving American, not a subject of the Government. I will take my chances and make my own decisions.
- —Guest Breeze
it's a law but i chose to or not anyway
- I strongly feel it should be optional to wear a helmet. I live in the UK we pay road tax here, take theory tests, have to pay £50 to apply for a provisional licence, have increasingly high insurance priceses and the 3rd most expensive petrol (gasoline) prices in the world at £1.43 a litre. Im happy to exept all that but being forced to wear a helmet is just to much to ask. im not stupid i know how they save lives and that they are all that are stopping you from being hooked up to a machine for the rest of your days in agonising pain after a crash but no, it should be the rider's or passenger's choice. It's your life no one should have to make the choice for you to wear a helmet or not they have all the reason in the world to say why it's a very good idea to but i for one don't do it by force i chose to. And if your thinking i am choosing to because i have to, im not i have ridden without a helmet in the past and been stopped by the police and i will continue to now and then do it anywa
- —Guest Kyle Chapman
My right to not look cool
- I started riding on the street in 1975. I wear my helmet all the time whether I look "Cool" or not. It's my choice to save my head if some ahole tries to kill me and who knows when that will be. Mandatory in NY, not in PA, I still wear it.
- —Guest RobKW
I Wear A Helmet For a Darn Good Reason!!
- I Have Gone Down Twice In My Lifetime Of Riding In Which I Got Seriously Hurt. The first Time I Was Going 65 On the Florida Turnpike When My Rear Tire Decided It Didn't Want to Hold Air Any More So It Blew Out. Me And The Bike Ate Up 185 Feet Of The Center White Line When The Bike Stopped And I Rolled About Another 10-15 Feet. When I Looked At The Side Of My Helmet I Saw A Hole In the Shell And A Thin Layer Of Foam Inside Was All That Was Left Protecting What Little Brain I Had. The Second Time Was In 2003 When I Went Down Trying to Avoid An Idiot Who Had Just Cut Me Off In Traffic. I Went Down In Loose Gravel And My Helmet Saved My Face From Having Black Tar Gravel From A Road Pack In-bedded In The Side Of My Face And Head. That's Why I Always Wear A Helmet When I Ride.
- —markjoy1213
Helmet
- I have been riding for 30+ years wo major crash. I endorse wearing helmet. I have only ONE head and brain. Though I have 2 legs,arms I do not want to lose either. I want to leave with what God gave me.
- —Guest tas1949
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