Why I where a helmet...
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LincolnMercury
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ok... that does it. I am buying new riding leathers and jacket with armor plates (skid plates) for the back, elbows and shoulders. After my run in (no pun intended) with the truck on Friday... I found myself feeling exposed as I rode today.
RdKryton
Active Member
You feeling any better today? I just got in from 20 mile ride and not one close call. That's a first.
Take care
Jim
I ALWAYS wear my helmet.
Sorry but that looks fake. Any particulars with a link to a real news site?
Sorry but that looks fake. Any particulars with a link to a real news site?
RdKryton
Active Member
I stand corrected but I will still always where a helmet. The email I received stated that the guy lived. Sorry about the incorrect info.
Jim
Jim
try 1897
Active Member
I was about 16 or 17 when I walked into the cycle shop one day and looked at a poster on the wall that was of a broken egg and said " ALL the Kings Horses and All the Kings Men......Please Where a Helmet" That was a powerful poster to me .........I've always worn a helmet sence that day and still remember that poster as if it were yesterday.... Tom in West Virginia
No need to apologize. Gruesome but if it gets someone to not ride the like a jackbat, then well served.
Sometimes I think the worst enemy of our "sport" are a couple of jerkwads per 100 square miles, hurting others, themselves and the future of MB'ing. One stupid MB incident can cause a cascade of ignorant legislation.
Porkchop
Member
I bought a big 4 wheeler last year. I had bought a helmet about 3 or 4 months before I bought the 4 wheeler. Took a few photos of it still on the trailer the night I brought it home, with a matching helmet sitting on the seat. Sent the photos to a few friends that night. One repliied telling me I was a sissy for wearing a helmet on one if them. Well, after going down a small hill, getting thrown off my ride and having all 600 pounds of it tumbling down the hill and landing on the side of my head was not exactly fun. A friend was at the top of the hill watching. He shouted and asked if I was O.K. I said yes. Got up, flipped my ride back on it's feet, looked it over and said,"Thank GOD for helmets. This thing just paid for it's self. It's worth every penny I paid for it. They can call me a sissy all they want to." Had it not been for a helmet that day, I'm sure I would have been severly injured or killed. I'd rather be a live chicken than a dead duck. And yes, I wear a helmet on my motored bike, along with other armor.
bluegoatwoods
Well-Known Member
I agree with the helmet-for-safety idea.
But there's another reason to wear one; it's more comfortable. It keeps the sun from cooking your brain. With a bill it keeps the sun out of your eyes. The holes help cool you.
You can fill the holes in winter with foam rubber and seal with RTV silicone and you have a cold and wet weather hat that's just fine.
I remember the guy with his head in the truck. It's been some time. If I remember right he rear-ended the truck at some ridiculous speed, got his head stuck, and got dragged for some distance. The truck driver didn't realize what had happened.
But there's another reason to wear one; it's more comfortable. It keeps the sun from cooking your brain. With a bill it keeps the sun out of your eyes. The holes help cool you.
You can fill the holes in winter with foam rubber and seal with RTV silicone and you have a cold and wet weather hat that's just fine.
I remember the guy with his head in the truck. It's been some time. If I remember right he rear-ended the truck at some ridiculous speed, got his head stuck, and got dragged for some distance. The truck driver didn't realize what had happened.
