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CVO Social => Rider Down => Topic started by: Bromebe on October 05, 2014, 02:14:38 PM
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:'(
the weather has been great and I've been riding the crap out of my bike and pulled it out today, cleaned and went for gas and a quick ride and I swear this guy rode by the house while I was in the drive,
got a few miles from the house and there the bike was down and in the middle of the street, emergency crews all over it, looked like someone turned in front of him?
put a kink in my idea of cruising for the rest of the day,
and if it was the bagger, silver / white? nice bike the guy road by the house without a helmet on!
sure hope who ever it was he / she is alright!
went across town yesterday to met my bud and go with a ride with him and he likes riding without a helmet!
I've got armor plating on and he's in a T shirt and no helmet!
guess you ride in your own comfort zone
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Nebraska gets closer every year on the battle to repeal their helmet law. Kansas and Iowa don't have helmet laws either but I have to say I will never ride with out one. If that is what my riding buddies want to do that is on them but I won't and no one riding behind me either.
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I used to ride without helmet quite a bit. My friends encouraged me to get one cause they said they liked having me around. I started using it like 50/50. I went on a ride one day and decided to use the helmet because I had a short windshield and it was good for cutting the noise down. That day I happened to go down in a slow turn when I hit some gravel. That $400 Shoei had some nice scratches in it and did it's job protecting my noggin. I also happened to crack 5 ribs. Glad I didn't crack my head too.
I ride with a helmet 100% now no matter how hot it gets.
DH
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Here in South Carolina if you are over 21 you have a choice on weather or not you ware a helmet. I used to ware one all the time back in the 70's. In those days i was riding a Honda or a BMW. ( Note: I had two young daughters at the time.)
Fast forward to 2001. After not riding for 20+ years I decide to buy a Harley Electraglide. I bought a new pair of helmets and promptly put them on the shelf in the garage. It looked cooler not waring a helmet, and you had to look cool on a Harley. Well pi$$ on looking cool my head is more important to me than being or looking cool! By choice I ware a helmet whenever I get on the bike. Don't get me wrong, I think helmet laws suck and it should be up to each My choice is to ware my helmet.
Mike
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Both me and the wife insist on full face all the time. It's tough enough to drive for myself and everyone else but to do it without any and all protections I can provide. Hope the downed rider had one on.
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Here in South Carolina if you are over 21 you have a choice on weather or not you ware a helmet. I used to ware one all the time back in the 70's. In those days i was riding a Honda or a BMW. ( Note: I had two young daughters at the time.)
Fast forward to 2001. After not riding for 20+ years I decide to buy a Harley Electraglide. I bought a new pair of helmets and promptly put them on the shelf in the garage. It looked cooler not waring a helmet, and you had to look cool on a Harley. Well pi$$ on looking cool my head is more important to me than being or looking cool! By choice I ware a helmet whenever I get on the bike. Don't get me wrong, I think helmet laws suck and it should be up to each My choice is to ware my helmet.
Mike
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Here in South Carolina if you are over 21 you have a choice on weather or not you ware a helmet. I used to ware one all the time back in the 70's. In those days i was riding a Honda or a BMW. ( Note: I had two young daughters at the time.)
Fast forward to 2001. After not riding for 20+ years I decide to buy a Harley Electraglide. I bought a new pair of helmets and promptly put them on the shelf in the garage. It looked cooler not waring a helmet, and you had to look cool on a Harley. Well pi$$ on looking cool my head is more important to me than being or looking cool! By choice I ware a helmet whenever I get on the bike. Don't get me wrong, I think helmet laws suck and it should be up to each My choice is to ware my helmet.
Mike
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Unc Mike is on the Sauce again :huepfenlol2: :drink: :nixweiss: :drink: :nixweiss:
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In my state, Maine, you still have a choice on wearing a helmet - same with neighboring New Hampshire, so you could do a lot of riding in the area without one if you wished provided you didn't go either north or south of those states. There have been multiple actions to legislate so riders must wear helmets, so far they have been unsuccessful - the bickering is intense and the issue comes up nearly annually. I wear a half shell all the time but believe it should be by choice not by law. I just purchased a full faced Shoei GT-Air and plan to break it in with whatever cool weather riding is left this season. Lets face facts and prepare - it's just a matter of time before we have a national helmet law like in Canada.
I hope the rider mentioned by Bromebe survived the ride or didn't get hurt too badly...
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We think it's weird when we see riders ride by with a helmet on in Iowa. 95% of the time nobody wears one.
It's a personal choice. Don't knock us for choosing to ride without one and we will reciprocate.
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Don't knock us for choosing to ride without one and we will reciprocate.
That is about the dumbest thing I have ever read. Reciprocate all you want, it's just like lifters going bad in a 110, everyone say's
"can't happen to me." But amazingly enough, it does.
SBB
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That is about the dumbest thing I have ever read. Reciprocate all you want, it's just like lifters going bad in a 110, everyone say's
"can't happen to me." But amazingly enough, it does.
SBB
I'll just consider the source here.
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And it was my post
I agree on your choice of Helmet or no helmet,
I have considered letting the hair blow in the wind
but the 3 times I bit the payment,
the helmet was the only thing that kept the head in take
and back to my concern, and the post
I hope, and I know this guy has to live in my neighborhood,
that he was alright
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That is about the dumbest thing I have ever read. Reciprocate all you want, it's just like lifters going bad in a 110, everyone say's
"can't happen to me." But amazingly enough, it does.
SBB
I'm with you on this Chip.
I have a good friend with permanent brain damage who had that same attitude.
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Unc Mike is on the Sauce again :huepfenlol2: :drink: :nixweiss: :drink: :nixweiss:
Either that or he has had his chin strap too tight.....cut off the flow of blood to his brain.
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I hate to see a bike down! I hope the rider(s) is Ok too. It is required to wear a helmet in GA. usually even when we ride in SC or Florida we still wear the helmets at least for the hwy riding!
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I'll just consider the source here.
Ditto, the source is questionable at the best of times!
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No Helmet is my choice here in Florida. Darn glad I still have a choice. It's my risk to take we already have too many Laws. :cool26:
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No Helmet is my choice here in Florida. Darn glad I still have a choice. It's my risk to take we already have too many Laws. :cool26:
Oooooh better watch it the helmet police are gonna getcha! :coolblue:
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After hitting my helmet on the asphalt pulling out of my parking spot at work a few years ago, I won't get on a bike without one. My head would have split like a watermelon as hard as I went down.
They had been wetting down the street all day, while trucks with mud on the wheels laid a nice gooey layer on the road. When I pulled out the bike slid and I fell backward off the bike.
That Shoie Neotech was brand new. The contractor paid for the damage to my bike and helmet.
I rode the first 25 years without one. Having the need to see my grand daughters grow up gives me enough reason now.
But, that is my choice. Others are free to do as they please.
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After hitting my helmet on the asphalt pulling out of my parking spot at work a few years ago, I won't get on a bike without one. My head would have split like a watermelon as hard as I went down.
They had been wetting down the street all day, while trucks with mud on the wheels laid a nice gooey layer on the road. When I pulled out the bike slid and I fell backward off the bike.
That Shoie Neotech was brand new. The contractor paid for the damage to my bike and helmet.
I rode the first 25 years without one. Having the need to see my grand daughters grow up gives me enough reason now.
But, that is my choice. Others are free to do as they please.
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:2vrolijk_21: 2@ His Own
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I agree, it should be the riders choice not a law.
But, I know if I wasn't wearing mine when i got hit I wouldn't be here right now and the leather jacket saved my skin.
Now I don't ride without them.
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Time for a chuckle on this post
think I was 16
an ole lady ran a stop sign and nailed me square in the side with the front of her car
I bent over like a tooth pick and left this perfect impression of my head / helmet dead center of her hood
once I got back to school, there was the car in the teachers parking lot
I passed English that year and got to leave class early everyday for the rest of the year!
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Choices.... its all about them.
Ask the ER nurse who looked at me, my head injury, looked over at my vest draped over the chair and said: "You know if you were wearing a helmet this wouldn't have happened"
ME: "You know, you're right... but do you think that everyone that walks into a 7-11 store should be required to wear a helmet?"
HER: Of course not, that would be stupid.
ME: Then stupid it is, because this injury happened IN a 7-11 store and NOT on a motorcycle!
You can get hurt or injured at any time. be safe out there always brothers and sisters.
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This may sound hypocritical or unfair, but young riders should have to wear a helmet. I did way too many dumb things as a young rider and at 17 I was coming home from a party and did not negotiate a turn too well (actually not at all) and went straight into a large tree on someone's front lawn. My front forks got bent in half and I went face first into the tree. Luckily I had on a full face shield one piece and I escaped unharmed. If not for that helmet I would not be here today
But, I do believe we all should be able to make the choice for ourselves. After we have enough experience to make a rational and mature decision
I am in Mass so I have to wear a helmet. But there are days I wish I did not have to. If I am cruising on a back road on a nice day with no traffic then I'd like to have it off. If I am riding to work on the highway with tons of high speed traffic then I would wear one
But in the land of the free we should have the freedom to make our own choice.
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So I've noticed two things (just speaking about me and mine). As I get more comfortable with my bike I have been going without on short rides during daylight. Secondly and I don't know if this is real or perceived but I seem to have better balance without. I have a full face modular and I (again real or perceived) feel like my equilibrium is affected in the helmet. is that possible?
Thoughts?
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i have seen bad falls at only 20 mph,,, can't believe what a helmet looked like at that slow speed.. Could have been someone's head split wide open,, I won't hardly ride down the block without one anymore... just saying,,,,,,,, :nixweiss:
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Seen two accidents this past weekend,both looked to be preventable by inexperienced riders. Most riders have never been taught how to lean and push down on those bars...I was always told if you go off the road, tuck and roll with or without a helmet.