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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:03:44 PM EDT
[#1]
I'm alive today because of a helmet worn while on my motorcycle.
Still don't believe in the State forcing people to wear them. It's still the smart thing to do. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:18:07 PM EDT
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Ohio doesn't mandate their use any longer but I have one on every time I go out. Mine also provide a good place to mount comms headsets, and that gear has also saved my bacon a few times over the years.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:19:08 PM EDT
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Didn't help the guy with his head wedged into the back of a semi
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:20:28 PM EDT
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Should read, "Please wear a FULL face helmet."
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:22:19 PM EDT
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Should read, "Please wear a FULL face helmet." Yep, brain buckets are useless |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:23:14 PM EDT
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Didn't help the guy with his head wedged into the back of a semi I bet it wouldn't have helped the guy riding his bike through Nagasaki on 8/9/45 either 
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:23:17 PM EDT
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Shouldn't be a law.
Should be worn. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:23:58 PM EDT
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Shouldn't be a law. Should be worn. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:24:04 PM EDT
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Didn't help the guy with his head wedged into the back of a semi One should also avoid semis, or anything else much more massive than your two-wheeler for that matter. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:24:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Shouldn't be a law. Should be worn. I don't feel to sorry for no gear riders , smokers with cancer , or any drug addict its not like its some huge secret not to do those things |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:25:01 PM EDT
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Never understood why folks would ride without one, but I don't believe the State should mandate it.
I'll take my 8 airbags, crumple zones, and seatbelts thanks you very much. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:26:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm alive today because of a helmet worn while on my motorcycle. Still don't believe in the State forcing people to wear them. It's still the smart thing to do. Wear em kids! |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:27:04 PM EDT
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Helmets = open casket funerals.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:30:15 PM EDT
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A helmet saved my melon once.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:35:41 PM EDT
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A helmet saved my melon once. A helmet saved my wife's melon once when her bike was t-boned at an intersection and she went flying. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:38:29 PM EDT
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Shouldn't be a law. Should be worn. I can't disagree with this at all. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:42:56 PM EDT
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Shouldn't be a law. Should be worn. Agreed! Always did, even when riding my bicycle(mtbr). |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:46:58 PM EDT
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Not a law here.
Should be worn.
I have been guilty of not wearing a helmet before. Sometimes it gets hot in Tx!  |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 4:56:46 PM EDT
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I would not be making this post if it weren't for wearing a helmet. Motorcycles are fun, but include risk. Reduce the risk.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:03:35 PM EDT
[#20]
Yes I wear one.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:09:46 PM EDT
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ATGATT Full body leather, armor, boots, gloves, Full Shark helmet...all the time. I also ride like EVERYONE is trying to kill me. Which means that I seldom just go for short rides, or use my bike as a primary mode of transportation. (I don't just run to the store on it.) I do take long trips on it, and lots of pleasure rides. But gearing up is a real commitment, and my spaceman/leather gimp look is a little embarrassing. But the alternative is I stop riding... |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:10:30 PM EDT
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Ohio doesn't mandate their use any longer but I have one on every time I go out. OHIO - law dictates you will wear a seatbelt in a car, but no law requiring a helmet on a motorcycle.
Stupid to make it a law, but I wear a helmet when I'm on my bike. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:12:02 PM EDT
[#23]
FPNI
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:12:50 PM EDT
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I am here today because of my full face helmet. Some lady turned left in front of me and I went sailing 35 MPH. Landed head first and walked away from it.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:15:18 PM EDT
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I"m not against wearing gear, how about we do more to remove idiots from behind the wheel?
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:22:33 PM EDT
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I agree with "it shouldn't be a law, but they should be worn". I always wear full gear including a full face helmet when I ride, because it's my choice to do so. I learned that lesson by witnessing this:
I was on duty in a hospital one night when they brought in a guy that had come off of a bike at over 100 mph. He was wearing full leathers, steel toed boots, and a full face helmet at the time of the accident. He apparently landed on his face and the helmet was abraded down to the foam padding on his chin and the whole right side. His leathers, boots, and gloves looked like they had been through a shredder The damage to him? He had a sprained ankle, and an abrasion to the heel of one hand, that's all. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:31:36 PM EDT
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I'm alive today because of a helmet worn while on my motorcycle. Still don't believe in the State forcing people to wear them. It's still the smart thing to do. me too, all of that. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:36:19 PM EDT
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The medical profession has a term of art for those motorcycle riders who do not wear helmets: Organ Donor
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:42:23 PM EDT
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I went down on my bike at somewhere north of 80mph. The bike went almost 200 feet on its side. I had on a full face helmet and joe rocket gloves and a Honda racing coat. The helmet had a 2 inch wide scuff/burn all the way around it from the pavement as I was tumbling. The shoulder of the coat was chewed through to the liner and the elbows were black from the friction of the road as well. The gloves had the padding above the knuckles ground off and the palm of both gloves was chewed up as well. I got up, walked over to the bike and picked it up and pushed it off the road. Needless to say all the rash would have been my face/hands if not for the gear. I walked away with 2 lines of road rash about an inch long out of the deal.
Other side of the story.... My cousins ex husband was in florida. No helmet law there. He was out with a group and a car changed lanes without signaling. The Ex went into the curb, flipping him off the bike and hit his head on the curb and was dead before the bike stopped skidding. Moral of the story....if he would have had a helmet on he probably would have walked away from the accident. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:47:38 PM EDT
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Quality helmets have saved my life at least four times in 45 years.
Three collisions with cars in which two were hit and runs and once when I went down hard at night turning a corner. Atgatt all ways. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:48:31 PM EDT
[#31]
Probably shouldn't be a law.
Definitely shouldn't need to be a law. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:50:03 PM EDT
[#32]
Helmets and seatbelts shouldn't be required by law. The smart people will use them, the foolish ones won't.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 5:50:05 PM EDT
[#33]
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But gearing up is a real commitment, and my spaceman/leather gimp look is a little embarrassing. No it's not. I see people riding in flip flops, shorts, no helmet, and I know that guy's a dumbass. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:02:13 PM EDT
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No it's not. I see people riding in flip flops, shorts, no helmet, and I know that guy's a dumbass. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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But gearing up is a real commitment, and my spaceman/leather gimp look is a little embarrassing. No it's not. I see people riding in flip flops, shorts, no helmet, and I know that guy's a dumbass. Then they wreck, sliding across the pavement, and it looks like someone took a giant cheese grater to the dumbass. 
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:03:17 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Helmets and seatbelts shouldn't be required by law. The smart people will use them, the foolish ones won't. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:07:13 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:11:19 PM EDT
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I'm alive today because of a helmet worn while on my motorcycle. Still don't believe in the State forcing people to wear them. It's still the smart thing to do. I agree |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:12:32 PM EDT
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Fatal accident just an hour ago couple blocks from work. Intersection I go through every day.
City bus turning across traffic, headlong into a bike. Edit: No helmet in the world would have saved this one.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:13:13 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Shouldn't be a law. Should be worn. Absolutely. Kinda like seatbelts...shouldn't need a law to enforce common sense. I figure in either case it's a good way to weed out the gene pool a bit...grown people can make grown choices. Just b/c they're stupid...well... |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:14:43 PM EDT
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No it's not. I see people riding in flip flops, shorts, no helmet, and I know that guy's a dumbass. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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But gearing up is a real commitment, and my spaceman/leather gimp look is a little embarrassing. No it's not. I see people riding in flip flops, shorts, no helmet, and I know that guy's a dumbass. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:18:51 PM EDT
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Actually, I have a buddy of mine in Houston whose son is waiting for new lungs. So if you're in Houston, don't smoke, are on the small side, and don't like helmets, ride on.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:27:57 PM EDT
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Never understood why folks would ride without one, but I don't believe the State should mandate it. I'll take my 8 airbags, crumple zones, and seatbelts thanks you very much. Yup. Driving a car is dangerous enough. Take those things away? No thanks. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:42:54 PM EDT
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No helmet, I'm good with that just as long as you have a DNR and living will donating your undamaged organs.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:44:04 PM EDT
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squids.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:46:10 PM EDT
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Didn't help the guy with his head wedged into the back of a semi No amount of protective gear will help you if you're stupid. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:52:58 PM EDT
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I bet it wouldn't have helped the guy riding his bike through Nagasaki on 8/9/45 either Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Didn't help the guy with his head wedged into the back of a semi I bet it wouldn't have helped the guy riding his bike through Nagasaki on 8/9/45 either Haha awesome! |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:54:17 PM EDT
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I don't wear one most of the time. Everyone dies at some point. I know it's stupid. I don't care.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 6:58:23 PM EDT
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You really have to be an idiot not to wear a helmet on a motorcycle. The guys wearing shorts and flip flops always make me laugh as well.
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Posted: 5/22/2015 7:07:50 PM EDT
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Helmets = open casket funerals. I've watched people in full face helmets get up with a bit of a limp and a lot of foul language from accidents that would've had them in the ER or morgue without one. |
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Posted: 5/22/2015 7:12:25 PM EDT
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I'm alive today because of a helmet worn while on my motorcycle. Still don't believe in the State forcing people to wear them. It's still the smart thing to do. Same here. I smashed my head against the ground hard enough to crack an open-face Bell helmet along the seam. I wish I'd had my full-face helmet on, as my mother spent an hour in the E.R. Picking gravel out of one side of my face. The reason for the wait was that I was the fifth MVA that afternoon, and was the patient seen as least likely to croak while waiting for the doctors. I detest helmet and seatbelt laws, but you're a moron if you don't use them. Stacking the odds in your favor while operating a motor vehicle is always a smart move, it just may not look as cool. |
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