helmet? do you wear one.

[hotsauce492003]

I agree there. A motorcycle helmet is 10 times better.
On the bicycle ones, Bell has some more or less decent fullface bicycle helmets.

But there is always an the exeption to the rule; I was involved in a multiple car accident going like 75mph on a rainy day on FWY5(Calif), ...and the curious thing is if I would have been wearing my seatbelt I would have most likely broken my neck. I was slamed by cars from the left and the right several times, like on a pinball machine, and my body just kept sliding on the long front seat of my chevy truck...and my head with each slam did not come lose..cause I slid on the seat each time i was hit (holding the wheel) and did not take the full blunt force of the impacts. When everything stopped my neck hurt but I walked away ok.
However I still think that 99% of the time helmets and seat belts might help.

 

[smitty]

Yeah, I ALWAYS wear my helmet whether I'm pedaling or motoring. Once when my daughter, Nellie, was about three years old, she chastised me for not wearing one as I was leaving on a push bike. I figured, if I wanted my kids (now 15 and 12) to wear helmets, I had to be exemplary. I use a skateboarding helmet because cycling helmets are way too fragile. Every time I would fumble my helmet pieces would fall off.
Two years ago I was knocked off by minivan( classic right turn impact, "I didn't see you.") He ran over my bike. I suffered a minor broken bone and many bruises. I didn't hit my head, but still, I was not sorry I was wearing my helmet. You know you only have to hit your head once to change your life forever. Not to mention your family. (Which I just mentioned.)

 

[kenspice]

My wife pleads with me to NOT wear a helmet. She also is a stickler about me keeping my insurance premiums up to date. Certainly I wear a helmet, pure stupidity not to.

 

[Cookie]

Brain bucket

Years ago I never wore a helm but that was back in the 60's now days I wear one all the time (keeps the red hair out of my face ) except when I am running the bike after working on it.
I have several helm's one is an old 60's vespa scooter type with a 1/2 face shield with orange reflectors on the frt and sides (white with blue racing stripe) I wear that one in the winter it has the leather shield on the neck and it looks cool. another helm is a 60's style red base ball cap type with a good brim for those sunny cold days but my everyday hot weather helm is a vented bike helm and it and I have been in two accidents in the first accident the lady was complaining that my head put a dent in her car it was a 2 inch deep dent on the last quarter pannel of her SUV between the helmet and my hard Irish head . (by the way I broke my tail bone and it still hurts on long rides).

You can find some good looking unusual helmets on e-bay cheep and a lot of them are perfect for what we do. All you have to do is take the D ring off and put a quick relase buckel on it.

Cookie

 

[louturks]

I wear a helmet always. I have one with a visor and a mirror on. I wouldn't go riding without one

 

[tombird]

Only wear a helmet when the law says to.

I am seventy-four and have ridden motorcycles, scooters and motorized bikes since I was twelve. I have had three accidents in all those years. The first was in Palo Alto, CA when I was drunk and riding a Suzuki. The second time was in Dallas. I had just turned fifty when an idiot in a new Caddy came off a side street and I rammed him. I had stiff muscles for a couple of days and had to get a new bike. The third time I was 73 and hit an oil slick going around a corner. I bumped my head and got a lump.

Tom

 

[try 1897]

I just bet you can't find one -----not one ----- race car driver that would ride without a helmet or drive a car without a seatbelt for that matter. Helmets and seatbelts save lives PERIOD.Remember all the controvercy over the HANS device in nascar. Well another case of a safty item that saves lives .If Dale , the best driver that I've ever seen ,had been wearing one he'd be here today. And to think its now mandatory.

 

[tombird]

Yas, yas, Big Brother watches over us.

My friend flipped his rag top back in the eighties and drowned in a few inches of water. His seat belt jammed. I have ridden with a lot of bikers and they seem about evenly split on Helmets.

But what I d or you don't do is not anybody's business but our own. I fight the helmet laws tooth and nail. I believe in the freedom of choice. Whether my choices are good or bad, I'll live with them because I made them.

Helmet laws suck.
Tom

 

[OldPete]

Google, Gary Busey head injuries.

 

[Cookie]

I live in one of the most backward states but being that I am over 18 and the moto bike is considered a bicycle it is up to me if I wear a helm and guess what guys I wear one and it saved me from a head injury. It is my choice and I am running low on my 9 lives......

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