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[Eagle Eye]

I finally got out for a ride last Sunday, 1st real ride of the year for me because of chit getting in the way.  Logged about 150 miles and it was interesting.  Me and my bud both wore our helmets and probably 4 out of 5 bikes that I saw on the road were wearing helmets too!  BIG PICTURE, small example.  GIVE PEOPLE THE CHOICE, LESS GOVERNMENT REGULATION, and generally they will make the best choice on what's right for them as an individual......or business!  After all the BS about repealing the helmet law in Michigan for years, at the end of the day it was all about having the choice versus government mandating what people need!   Hmmmm, sounds familiar, something we hear every fricking day for the last 3.6 years!

Amen!  I couldn't agree more.  Make it our choice.  We have too much government intrusion into our private lives as it is.  Kudos to the Great State of Michigan for doing the right thing.

[SE-5]

amen to that!

[D-N-D]

Go down one time and you will ware the correct gear !!!

[2018_FLTRXSE]

Amen!  I couldn't agree more.  Make it our choice.  We have too much government intrusion into our private lives as it is.  Kudos to the Great State of Michigan for doing the right thing.

 

[dayne66]

On the way to Vegas a couple years ago, I rode without a helmet a bit on some nice Montana backroads....but would feel uncomfortable in any amount of traffic.

[TinSpinner]

I was in Panama City, FL for Thunder Beach rally this past weekend. Saw a very drunk girl, no helmet on and wearing shorts and flip-flops, trying to get on back of a bike. About the time she stood up on the passenger peg she lost her balance and fell off backwards and cracked her head on the curb, knocked her out cold. It took the EMT's about 20 minutes to get there and they worked on her another 15 minutes or so before they loaded her on the ambulance and she was unconscious the whole time. Probably had a major concussion at the very least, possibly much worse. IF she had been wearing a helmet she probably wouldn't have had much worse of a headache than the hangover would've caused. One poor decision can change your life forever, not worth the risk to me.

[darth davidson]

Always full gear. Even in central FL. If its gonna be 103 degrees , then I ride the cage, but on my bike always geared up!

[codten]

Always 3/4 helmet long sleeves, boots and gloves.   I live in VA, Hampton Roads. Traffic is hell and people drive like crazy.

[DBHWT]

Been down twice....always wear helmet  / jacket....

[Cvostu]

Too much government?. Tell that to the one head that God gave you.  I won't riide without a helmt.  Maybe I like my head more than others here. 

[bigdave110]

This is always such a touchy subject.
But I will add to it.

I wear it when I feel like wearing it. (And yes, I have wrecked dirt and street bikes, so I know what it feels like to hit the floor)
But I make my passengers wear one all the time.
How do you guys like that for being a hypocrite.

Anyhow, this debate won't last much longer.
If you guys check, I believe the Fed's are getting things ready to made it a federal law to wear helmets.
So the states will be out of it.
Correct me if I am wrong, and I may be.
Can't remember where I read it, but I know I did.

Big Dave

[Midnight Rider]

This is always such a touchy subject.
But I will add to it.

I wear it when I feel like wearing it. (And yes, I have wrecked dirt and street bikes, so I know what it feels like to hit the floor)
But I make my passengers wear one all the time.
How do you guys like that for being a hypocrite.

Anyhow, this debate won't last much longer.
If you guys check, I believe the Fed's are getting things ready to made it a federal law to wear helmets.
So the states will be out of it.

I haven't heard that, but it would not be a surprise at all.  It has no effect on me one way or the other, as I wear ALL the time.
I

[indcoltz]

I don't see how the federal government can mandate you wearing equipment, and I surely do not see the states giving up the authority of equipment violations. They may be able to mandate it on interstates for some reason or another. I'm sorry but I just don't see the Feds getting into this. They have always left this type of stuff up to individual states. Would you have to go to the White House to pay your fine??? I'll be back in a week Honey, I have to ride out to DC to appear in the supreme court for riding without a helmet. Just a joke.

[Laconia]

Always wear helmet, boots, gear until temperature becomes to uncomfortable.....

[timo482]

where the whole sticky wicket goes comes from and goes to is this:

folks with damaged heads go on disability and taxpayers have to pay for it

if the rules changed so that folks with no helmet could never ever collect taxpayer funded disability - THEN it would in fact be the riders choice

but as long as taxpayers have to pay disability - the representative of the taxpayer has some say in the matter. since its not really riders choice - its really riders responsibility to try to avoid becoming a ward of the state - that is where choice comes in - be responsible or not.

im completely for free choice - wear a helmet or not - but i dont want taxpayer dollars going to keep vegies alive if they were not wearing a helmet, ie if they were not trying to avoid going on disability.

if somebody is wearing a helmet & being responsible and some drunk puts them in a chair - im all for paying disability - but somebody with no helmet being the drunk and crashing - then i do not want to have to pay taxes to fund disability.

freedom - it ends right where you take away others rights/life/livelihood/

oh well

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