Helmets Pro/Con
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RE: Helmets Pro/Con
I know it is probably dumb but I don't usually wear one even though when I was 21 I wiped my sportbike out at about 70,I was wearing a helmet at the time because we were canyon riding at high speeds. It saved my life, but it just may be the comfort and the confidence my EGlide gives me that I do not wear one unless I am on the highway for a long interestate run...
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Should be a matter of personal choice of course but the right answer is for those that go without to carry enough insurance so my tax dollars don't have to pay for their long term care. I always wear one!
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Should be a matter of personal choice of course but the right answer is for those that go without to carry enough insurance so my tax dollars don't have to pay for their long term care. I always wear one!
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Yes, I ride, and YES, I wear a helmet...
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When riding in town, I don't wear one cause I can't see well with one on. I have trouble with hearing also and can't hear the tires around me and sirens and stuff. Yea Yea Yea, if you can't hear a siren you don't need to be riding or driving. But I'm talking about when they are a block or so away and with other traffic noise and the helmet, I just don't pick up the high pitches. But out on the highway I wear a fullface Shoei. The wife and I can talk in town but on the road we use the intercom. We all live, and yes die, by the choices we make, period.
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RE: Helmets Pro/Con
I always wear one, but support the right of the rider to choose whether they want to or not. I love wearing my 1/2 helmet when it's warm enough, but I know I really should be wearing the full face. Something about the full face takes something away from the ride. I wear it when it's cold though.
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RE: Helmets Pro/Con
Should be riders choice but I get tired of paying for the bills of bums with no insurance who crash w/o a helmet...
I am from Calif and must wear a helmet, would anyway most of the time...Have seen too many people over the years with messed up heads/faces w/o a helmet......Tried a novelty helmet to a half, then 3/4 to a full/modular....Now back to a 3/4 and am more comfortable with it than any of the others........I know the full is safer but it really is all about choice........
I hit a deer in Montecello, Utah this past summer......Had just taken the helmet off an hour earlier at lunch and was cruising down the road at 60mph on cruise control when a deer running at full speed hit me on the left side......Knocked me silly but I did not go down.......$5500 in damage but I was able to ride back to San Diego.......If I had gone down I know the damage to me would have been serious......Maybe a wake-up call????? I made the choice and would have been resolved to the injuries but I just got lucky by not going down.....All about choices in life......
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I am from Calif and must wear a helmet, would anyway most of the time...Have seen too many people over the years with messed up heads/faces w/o a helmet......Tried a novelty helmet to a half, then 3/4 to a full/modular....Now back to a 3/4 and am more comfortable with it than any of the others........I know the full is safer but it really is all about choice........
I hit a deer in Montecello, Utah this past summer......Had just taken the helmet off an hour earlier at lunch and was cruising down the road at 60mph on cruise control when a deer running at full speed hit me on the left side......Knocked me silly but I did not go down.......$5500 in damage but I was able to ride back to San Diego.......If I had gone down I know the damage to me would have been serious......Maybe a wake-up call????? I made the choice and would have been resolved to the injuries but I just got lucky by not going down.....All about choices in life......
Steve
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RE: Helmets Pro/Con
I only started wearing one again last fall when I got my 08 UC, I like the intercom and music with the head phones. To my surprise I also like not having the wind in my ears and not having to wear earplugs (ear plugs seem too take away too much sound and make me feel out of balance on the bike). I have both a FF modular and a 3/4, but am gradually starting the like the modular best.
If you don't like your tax dollars going for the medical care of someone else you for damn sure don't want to vote democrat at the next election....but then that's a whole nother issue.
If you don't like your tax dollars going for the medical care of someone else you for damn sure don't want to vote democrat at the next election....but then that's a whole nother issue.