helmets or no helmets?
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From: NJ Shore and IRB Fla
I vote freedom to choose, on EVERYTHING!! Guns,abortions,drugs,alcohol, flying,riding etc... As long as it hurts no one but yourself.
To my fellow riders, Please wear a helmet.
Talk to all the arm chair experts ya want but go ask the guys [FD,EMT,Medics etc...] that scrape up the aftermath firsthand to see what the facts realy are.
M/C accidents that involved crappy or no helmets has given my crowd more than a few nightmares. Guess that harms/hurts the emergency worker. Remember I said hurt only yourself.
Ive seen many dead in a F/F helmet, usually doing 90+mph. I've seen a few low speed accidents where the bottle cap helmet wearer died. To many in my last decade died because they were a new rider and ran off the road, but the F/F wearing ones were less injured almost everytime.
I was FUBAR'ed in '90 in a HD DOT helmet. Had my face mostly wiped off. I was 101% in the right [left turned right over me] but 99% hurt. Almost dead.
PUHLEEZE wear a helmet.
To my fellow riders, Please wear a helmet.
Talk to all the arm chair experts ya want but go ask the guys [FD,EMT,Medics etc...] that scrape up the aftermath firsthand to see what the facts realy are.
M/C accidents that involved crappy or no helmets has given my crowd more than a few nightmares. Guess that harms/hurts the emergency worker. Remember I said hurt only yourself.
Ive seen many dead in a F/F helmet, usually doing 90+mph. I've seen a few low speed accidents where the bottle cap helmet wearer died. To many in my last decade died because they were a new rider and ran off the road, but the F/F wearing ones were less injured almost everytime.
I was FUBAR'ed in '90 in a HD DOT helmet. Had my face mostly wiped off. I was 101% in the right [left turned right over me] but 99% hurt. Almost dead.
PUHLEEZE wear a helmet.
Last edited by mjrfd99; Jul 29, 2012 at 08:49 AM. Reason: True facts from the highways of death
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"The numbers are pretty compelling that Florida has paid a high price," Rae Tyson, a spokesman for the federal agency told the Miami Herald.
The study said in the 30 months after the helmet law was lifted, 4,986 riders were admitted to hospitals -- 40 percent more than the 3,567 admissions during the 30 months before the law was changed. Head-injury admissions were up 80 percent and costs charged to hospitals for motorcyclists with head, brain or skull injuries more than doubled from $21 million to $50 million.
The study said in the 30 months after the helmet law was lifted, 4,986 riders were admitted to hospitals -- 40 percent more than the 3,567 admissions during the 30 months before the law was changed. Head-injury admissions were up 80 percent and costs charged to hospitals for motorcyclists with head, brain or skull injuries more than doubled from $21 million to $50 million.
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Thing is..freedom isn't free. It costs someone. Just like all of those single mom's without health insurance that clog up emergency rooms because their kids have a fever, we pay for folks who are injured who don't have insurance.
I hate subsidizing someone else with my money.
When a a guy's million dollar house on the beach washes away, as a Florida resident, I pay more in insurance premiums. All of the folks who live on the coast are subsidized by us folks who are more inland....if not, no one could build on those coastal lots.
Likewise with head injuries...it is not uncommmon for head injury costs to soar into the $500,000+ range. (The Florida Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program was once in my purview). It is our tax money and increased insurance premiums that pay for the increases in traumatic brain injury.
Ride free...but don't whine about increases in taxes or medical insurance premiums...
I hate subsidizing someone else with my money.
When a a guy's million dollar house on the beach washes away, as a Florida resident, I pay more in insurance premiums. All of the folks who live on the coast are subsidized by us folks who are more inland....if not, no one could build on those coastal lots.
Likewise with head injuries...it is not uncommmon for head injury costs to soar into the $500,000+ range. (The Florida Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program was once in my purview). It is our tax money and increased insurance premiums that pay for the increases in traumatic brain injury.
Ride free...but don't whine about increases in taxes or medical insurance premiums...
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I always wear a helmet. sometimes I will go for a short ride w/out my boots or often w/out a jacket & gloves on my touring bike, but never w/out a helmet. I look at it as protecting my investment. I've spent far too much time and money on what's IN my head to not put protect it. It's by far, my most valuable asset.
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