Routy wrote on 07/04/10 at 07:58:23:...Am I an idiot, or just an oldtimer,....keeping in mind that I have done many miles before any helment laws ever existed...
...When the law came in, it wasn't fun anymore, sold both of them.
I just wondered if I'm alone in this,.....riding now.
You are not an Idiot. You simply are willing to take the risk for the enjoy of riding naked.
As far as I know, there was not "motorcycle license" in 1964. There was not MSF, no license, no required helment -- we just simply rode. My dad rode a 3-wheel H-D Servicar, with a normal badged (#241) cloth hat.
I ride t-shirt, no gloves, a helmet because of the law. When I took the tour I stopped just into Arizona to remove the helmet. Rode 2,000 miles with "protection" of dark goggles and SPF-45 lotion:
Thing is, I have never needed a helmet. Life total of road rash is about one square inch. Yet, I MIGHT fall/crash. But it is such nice without the "protection." Would probably dead with or without a helmet anyhow.
And I would FAR prefer dead on the road than in a old folks nursing home waiting to die.