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Old 04-20-2018, 12:46 AM
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Default Anyone NOT wear a helmet at all?
i rode for about 15 years then took a few years off. I was riding mainly sport bikes with full face helmets. Now I知 on a 2003 Fatboy and my wife wants me to wear a helmet...I知 considering making her happy and getting a beanie but curious how many don稚 wear one at all?
 
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Helmet = Open casket. People can stand over you at your funeral and say stupid **** about how good you look.
No helmet = Closed casket. People can look at pictures of you during better times.
That's motorcycles. If it bothers you, there's always Needlepoint.
 
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I don't wear one and never have.

It's been weighing on my mind the last 2-3 years so I wouldn't be shocked if I'm putting one on soon. Too many idiots out there more worried about Snapchat or Facebook or whatever they do on their phones.

That and I have my first little one coming in mid-June. Makes you think about the future a bit more with that happening.
 
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i didnt wear one until i was hit last fall. ended up concussed and a pretty good gash with some road rash on my head. very easily could have been lights out permanently. with 2 baby grandsons to watch grow i wont ride without one anymore.
 
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I like it when people don't wear helmets, it skews the statistics in my favor.
 
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When I was a kid I never wore one. Now I'd never go without!!
 
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There have been many times where I was in a place to ride without and did. But I have been taken out on a bike a couple times and it wasn't pretty. I also wear seatbelts. Life is short. No sense making it shorter.
 
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A helmet has saved my life 3 times so far ..
 
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I kind of enjoy not being a quadriplegic. Guess that's why I wear one.
 
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I don't wear one. I am more afraid of living through a wreck than being killed in one.
 
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I mostly wear a 3/4 Shoei or a 1/2 HD 8 got on a fluke deal, I wear ear plugs with the 1/2.
 
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