Well now our assshole Republican governor here in Michigan has resended our helmet law.

I think the next thorn in our Gov. Rick Snyder’s side should be a class action suit for reckless endangerment of our citizens. Why? For signing the “no helmet” law into effect giving motorcyclists the right to scatter their brains on Michigan roads.

It seems to me like a thinly veiled attempt to help the insurance companies rake in still more profits, as they will be writing more policies with the $20,000 additional insurance coverage requirement.

And we here in Michigan all know that Snyder’s all over anything that promotes a corporate society.

I suspect most of those folks giving the helmet a toss are just begging Darwin to do what Darwin does best: clean up the gene pool.

I would suppose to some that freedom of choice means more to them than life itself...well lets see how many freedoms the can enjoy as a vegetable in some nursing home (that the rest of us more 'responsible' riders will have to pay for).

However, since the new law has come into effect I am very happy to report that through my personal observations hardly anyone is riding without a helmet despite the new law, proving that Michigan riders are a lot smarter than our stupid governor.

ATGATT *Starlifter

"I wonder why she felt the government has the right to require our safety?"

Umm, well because without seatbelts, traffic rules, drunken driving laws, helmet laws, RR crossing signals, safe food & drug laws, firearms restrictions, and a hundred other safety regulations, rules and laws, there would be even higher costs to us all in the form of additional hospital care, law suits, insurance costs etc. not to mention a much higher risk to all of us every time we venture outside our houses.

Your freedoms end where the other persons safety concerns, out of pocket costs, and other considerations of the costly stupidity of who others affect us all.

No helmet law here...  80% wear helmets anyway....
The rest,... Darwin takes care of....
Proof.... evolution trumps creationism ...

Starlifter, I agree with you that it was an attempt to line the insurance companies’ pockets, but it wasn’t a veiled attempt in my case.  Days before Snyder signed on the dotted line my insurance renewal came in the mail with the Twenty Thousand additional coverage and a Twenty Dollar increase in annual premium.  Who are they fooling – Twenty Thousand won’t get you through the emergency room.

Here I was looking for a decrease going from insuring a Triumph Trophy 1200 to my Savage, and I get an increase – bummer.  Well at least there is three less carbs to cause trouble and better fuel milage.

Over on this side of the State there seems to be bunches of bikers taking advantage of their new freedom to wear do-rags, but as the better half quipped, “ They are all old guys on Harlys.”  I have to agree with her on that one.  It looks dumb and I won’t be using that freedom.  Oh, and I always agree with her, or there is Hell to paid.

Going up to Baldwin this weekend for the blessing. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that I’ll be wishing I had stock in a Do-Rag company.

As I recall, helmets reduce the chance of death in an accident.
but you'll have to agree there's a better chance of living with a disability.

Ohh, Lifter,, Im shocked. YOu act as if someone is requiring people to not wear a helmet.,

Liberals, the defenders of human rights and upholders of "freedom" always telling someone else what to do...

I wear a helmet, but why force someone to use a safety precaution that only affects them self?

Why not just outlaw motorcycles altogether?

Everyone who refuses to wear a helmet should be required to submit to a vaginal - or anal - probe. Every time they refuse. Purpose? To ascertain the location of their head.