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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5109 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #15 - 04/02/17 at 10:45:29 Guy was grabbing gears before grabbing brake then rear window just falls out , I would bet the other side of the vehicle was cut out for the stunt !
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #16 - 04/02/17 at 11:03:20 That's easily replaced with this one... http://abc7.com/news/video-santa-ana-hit-and-run-crash-kills-motorcyclist/180... personally, I've bounced too many rocks off my noggen to not wear a helmet.
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Reply #17 - 04/02/17 at 11:26:35

I personally always wear mine if I'm headed farther than the gas station, but I did think the statistics in that study were interesting. I do think there is something to be said about hearing and vision being slightly impaired with a full face at least for me. When I know it's gonna rain I'll wear my full face to work but it takes a lot or out of the ride for me. Not to mention my perceived speed is dangerously different when wearing the full face. I've got a nice German style for my everyday

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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #18 - 04/02/17 at 19:31:24 verslagen1 wrote on 04/02/17 at 11:03:20: I've bounced too many rocks off my noggen to not wear a helmet. I get pelted by unknown projectiles all the time. I think I hit a bat once on the highway. Maybe I should say he hit me. I'm keeping the helmet on!
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gizzo Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiCabbage. It's Savage. Posts: 1318 Australia	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #19 - 04/02/17 at 20:28:32 DieselBob wrote on 04/01/17 at 19:34:02: This is why you wear a helmet. https://vk.com/video-73608226_171832994?list=b5826be60ffe446b7a That was f...ing awesome!!! Check the pillion's style, leaning way back to keep the bike balanced til the last moment when she dives inside with the rider. Wow.
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Reply #21 - 04/02/17 at 21:03:20

I'm with Ruttly on this one. If you slow it down you can see the pillion looks like a wigged rag doll velcroed to the rider. She appears to have been leaning back the entire time and only pivots forward upon braking. Even so, they made a great team. And all to say, even dummies wear helmets.
I've always worn one. Or, at least since the mini-bike of my childhood.

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T140V Ex Member	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #22 - 04/03/17 at 19:13:27 I wouldn't be alive today without mine.
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mpescatori Serious Thumper Offline Romanum Thumperium Cavalco, yeaaah !!! Posts: 3547 Rome, Italy Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #23 - 04/04/17 at 01:54:04 Should we wear a helmet ? Why should we wear a helmet...? Do any of you wear shoes ? Why should any of you wear shoes...? Now... are you going to wear that helmet or not ?
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Reply #24 - 04/04/17 at 02:39:45

For a long while there was a quite vocal anti-helmet movement, especially among the knuckle dragger contingent. They often spouted 'studies' and 'facts' that proved how dangerous helmets were.
I made the same offer over and over:
"I'll give you $1,000 for every documented case where a helmet caused and injury or death (which would not have happened without the helmet), if you give me $100 for every serious head injury or death that was avoided by wearing a helmet." "And, by the way, start by handing over $300 for the 3 times I crashed and hit my helmet and walked away."
Funny, no one ever took me up on that offer.
Make your choices. Just don't make your 'facts'.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #25 - 04/04/17 at 09:24:47 The first bike I totaled , a helmet would have been fatal.
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Re: Should we wear helmets?
Reply #26 - 04/04/17 at 10:10:34

DieselBob wrote on 04/02/17 at 21:03:20:

I'm with Ruttly on this one. If you slow it down you can see the pillion looks like a wigged rag doll velcroed to the rider. She appears to have been leaning back the entire time and only pivots forward upon braking. Even so, they made a great team. And all to say, even dummies wear helmets.
I've always worn one. Or, at least since the mini-bike of my childhood.

That's a movie stunt... you can see the film camera in the shot at the end...

PS.. I wear a helmet if for no other reason than to keep wind, bugs, gravel, dust, out of my eyes...
..and face...
Brain protection is just a bonus... Grin

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Buster Full Member Offline Motul 3000 10w40 Zinc 1407ppm Posts: 128 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #27 - 04/10/17 at 06:19:57 I never ride without mine. An accident is never planned in advance. At least I hope it isn't. And if I ever do slide headfirst into a water hydrant, I'd feel much safer wearing my Shoei instead of a Hulkamania bandana.
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Re: Should we wear helmets?
Reply #28 - 05/05/17 at 10:38:51

Late to the party, but a full face Shoei saved my a$$ back in the 80's.
I actually cracked the rear of it after it connected with a telephone pole. Road rash, broken fingers and toes,[sneakers] but I hobbled away with a concussion and 'minor' injuries.

I wear one. Right now it's a HJC half helmet, which I'm second guessin'.
Not the helmet, but the style.
In NH, helmets are not required. Why someone wouldn't wear one is beyond me, but to each his own.

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Re: Should we wear helmets?
Reply #29 - 05/05/17 at 15:44:24

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 04/04/17 at 09:24:47:

The first bike I totaled , a helmet would have been fatal.

I'm not calling bullshit on you JoG, but whenever I hear that statement (they say the same about seatbelts..."I'd be dead if I were wearing a seatbelt" ) I wonder if these people have access to a parallel universe where their other self did indeed die from wearing the helmet. Otherwise, how do they know? I do understand the ways that helmets can cause injury but the only time I can think of where a helmet has conclusively been the cause of death is when little kids have ridden to the playground, gone on the climbing equipment still wearing the helmet, been caught on something, slipped, fell and been hanged. It's happened a few times over here. :'(

anyway, helmet for me.

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