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Should we wear helmets?
03/29/17 at 15:36:07

So the title was totally a joke. I personally wear a helmet eventide I leave town on the bike, but an interesting article nonetheless. I'm neither for or against wearing helmets. We're riding around exposed on hundreds of pounds of steel around thousands of texting teenagers. That said I hope you all enjoy the read.

http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/03/modifying_the_helmet_law_h...

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Re: Should we wear helmets?
Reply #1 - 03/29/17 at 15:57:52

Yes you should always wear a helmet. Mine saved my life "just" but has left me with dentures, 2 plates in my skull and a partial lower jaw prosthetic. This does not include the aches and pains from a broken neck, 2 legs, and the 6 months recovery in the hospital to learn how to walk again, a task that 17 years later is painful after a distance.

Should you be required to wear a helmet by the government if you dont wish, no.

I wear a helmet not for me but those i would leave behind if i chose not to because it looks cool.

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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #2 - 03/29/17 at 18:31:19 I'd wear a helmet whether it was mandatory or not. Do I want the government telling me to wear it? Not really. I'm glad that they do though. Some people have to be told certain things. There's a tag on hair dryers that says not to use them in the shower. Duh! Some people need to be told!
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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #3 - 03/29/17 at 19:41:18 They do offer some, but far from total protection. I wear mine and would wear one even if it weren't mandatory where I live. It's a white one and not a blend into the blacktop thing.
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Reply #4 - 03/29/17 at 19:44:19

I have broken 2 helmets and ground a hole in another,guess I was doing a 65 mph head stand ! I don't want to know you if you don't wear a helmet cause I really hate funerals !
All 3 of those wrecks would have killed me , one had six months of healing from road rash and one spot on my back still hasn't healed after almost 40 years !

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zipidachimp Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1417 surrey, b.c. Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #5 - 03/29/17 at 20:34:46 been to Indianapolis at least once a year from 2014, and almost NO ONE wears a helmet. Scary to see the first time! Lost a friend a long time ago without a helmet, on a joyride around the block.
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18100 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #6 - 03/30/17 at 03:35:16 Yes we should wear a helmet. Should it be a law - maybe not.....unless my insurance rates are going to be affected by your brain injury and the related hospital bill!
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Re: Should we wear helmets?
Reply #7 - 03/30/17 at 04:04:58

Totaled three bikes.
Twice, no helmet. First time, IF I would have been wearing one, instead of cracked vertebrae,my neck would have been snapped.
Second time, head never touched the ground.
Third time, slammed my face into the cab corner of a pickup. Without the full coverage I might have died, best case scenario, lots of reconstructive surgery and dental work.

If your idiotic behavior exposes me to loss the problem is that the system is screwed up. When I have a Vested interest in how my neighbors live, we have a problem.

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SALB Serious Thumper Offline FSO Posts: 668 Whittier, AK Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #8 - 03/30/17 at 09:17:21 Depending on the circumstances, a helmet may or may not save you're life. I'll take the added insurance. Where helmets really shine is preventing head injury. Personally, I'd rather die, than be reduced to a vegetable, while taxpayers pay the bill to keep me alive, and putting my family through the ordeal.
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Reply #9 - 03/30/17 at 10:12:02

SALB wrote on 03/30/17 at 09:17:21:

Depending on the circumstances, a helmet may or may not save you're life. I'll take the added insurance. Where helmets really shine is preventing head injury. Personally, I'd rather die, than be reduced to a vegetable, while taxpayers pay the bill to keep me alive, and putting my family through the ordeal.

As a resident of Ontario Canada we get free (taxpayer funded) health/hospital care.
I think that I should take reasonable care of myself (helmet/leather shoes/pants/shirt/glasses/gloves) so not to unduly put a strain on our health system.
I lost friends back in the early '60s before helmet law - I choose to look after myself.

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Reply #10 - 03/30/17 at 18:28:59

This is why I wear a helmet.

brother-in-law: Found alive but barley on side of road with his Harley, no helmet, severe head trauma. He lived a while in a vegetative state then died.

friend of my father: Took his son's small displacement dirt bike for a spin down the country road he lived on. They found him drowned face down in a shallow ditch, no helmet. Autopsy showed a blow to the head followed by drowning. There were only 2 or 3 inches of water in the ditch.

my hair cutter's husband: Failed to negotiate a curve at night on his Harley, no helmet, found dead of head injury.

myself: Grudgingly bought and wore a helmet when it became law, two weeks later I punched out the windshield of an Oldsmobile with my head. The helmet was barely scuffed and my head was OK (the rest of me was badly beat up).

Kid I knew in school: Avoided a collision with a car but ran off the road under a guy wire which caught him under the neck and broke it. He died and in this case a helmet made no difference.

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Reply #11 - 03/31/17 at 06:22:58

I say, always wear a helmet. However, it is not the government's business in forcing it on anyone.

Back in the late '60's, I had a friend whose life was saved by wearing a "full front face" helmet, before they were even available by the general public. He had to order special from BELL. He was a flat-tracker.

I ordered mine right after that, and now of course, they are everywhere.

Too many close friends have been either killed or near-killed by not wearing a helmet.

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DieselBob Full Member Offline Thumper - One Who Thumps Posts: 189 Goshen, IN Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #12 - 04/01/17 at 19:34:02 This is why you wear a helmet. https://vk.com/video-73608226_171832994?list=b5826be60ffe446b7a
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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #13 - 04/02/17 at 02:16:40 Did both of them go inside the pickup?
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5109 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Should we wear helmets? Reply #14 - 04/02/17 at 10:33:14 That looked like a staged stunt to me, I'm throwing the red bull$hit flag on that one !
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