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Aug 10, 2009 | 09:46 PM

#31

Tony P

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From: North of Hell, South of Heaven

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Originally Posted by AZ Rider

I've been pelted by bees, large flying bugs, rocks, grit, stung in the ear, just about everything. Never would I wear a full face helmet. All the power to your friend but that ain't my bag no matter how many times I get hit.

Non approved DOT doo-rag for me. Not even that half the time. I like the wind in the face and the visceral experience. I'll sell my bike before I'd wear one of those things. Maybe for a spacewalk or something...

AZ, maybe you should start wearing a full face, preferably with a tinted shield, to hide that face that's been beat to hell...

I'm just kidding... You couldn't possibly scare little children like I do.

Aug 12, 2009 | 09:14 AM

#32

BWLucky13

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Yeah, I've had the "bug up the nose and out through the throat" experience. And, I've been hit by UFO's.

But, I can make everyone happy. I'm leaving for work now with no helmet. I'll be on and off the bike constantly in local neighborhoods. With four helmets in the house, I ride 99% of the time with a helmet. Of that, the majority is with a ff--anything over a few miles.

See, that wasn't so bad.

Aug 13, 2009 | 01:37 AM

#33

rjg883c

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From: Vegas, baby!

because of odds

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Originally Posted by AZ Rider

People are just as exposed to facial and cranial injury when standing at a crosswalk of a busy intersection. 4000 pedestrians die every year. I'm wondering why we don't all wear full faced helmets when crossing busy intersections? When on a ladder? When driving a car? I mean, 35,000 people die every year in car crashes. If you wear a full faced helmet when riding, why not wear a full faced helmet when driving and when walking downtown and crossing in traffic?

Because most of us don't get hit while standing at a crosswalk of a busy intersection. And most of us that have been involved in car crashes or walking downtown and crossing in traffic haven't hit our head or face. 4000 pedestrians die every year? Out of how many pedestrians that are out there facing danger? 100,000? 1,000,000? How many people climb a ladder vs. the number of people that climb a ladder and fall on their head/face?

It comes down to the relative odds of something bad happening in each of this scenarios. That is where personal choice should come in and there shouldn't be an attempt to make someone that chooses to wear a helmet feel a need to justify their choice.

Ron