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[Jswerve]

Here we go again with the helmet police. BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!!!! Jesus 1 guy posts something about the novelty helmets and all of sudden the helmet police come out with a vengeance. We get it, you're smarter than everyone. So how about you stop running around babbling about how great your helmet is and just agree to disagree. We don't have a helmet law here AND WE LOVE IT! Rarely does anyone wear a helmet around here and that because IT"S OUR CHOICE NOT YOURS. Why is that so damn hard to comprehend?

Now, I am going to go for a ride WITHOUT a helmet. MY RIGHT. You get on your damn soap box and keep on preaching. You don't know me and it's none of your concern just worry about your ugly melons.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but none of you are going to get out alive. So while you are here quit your damn preachin, wear or don't wear a helmet, and get out and ride.

 

[FlaHeatWave]

Florida is a no helmet state, sometimes I don't wear a helmet, sometimes I wear a novelty helmet, sometimes I wear the Shark Evoline3 in hi-viz yellow (we call them the Power Rangers lol).

These days I wear a helmet more often than not, mostly for comfort (keeps my hair from knotting up).

It's good to have a choice... I've got enough of the government telling me what / what not to do

As far as statistics go, in Florida; Motorcycle Fatalities, 52% without helmet, 48% with helmet.

[CVOStreetglide]

Florida is a no helmet state, sometimes I don't wear a helmet, sometimes I wear a novelty helmet, sometimes I wear the Shark Evoline3 in hi-viz yellow (we call them the Power Rangers lol).

These days I wear a helmet more often than not, mostly for comfort (keeps my hair from knotting up).

It's good to have a choice... I've got enough of the government telling me what / what not to do

As far as statistics go, in Florida; Motorcycle Fatalities, 52% without helmet, 48% with helmet.

THE NEWSPAPER: "...something year old HARLEY rider was killed today while riding his motorcycle.
He was wearing a helmet and was "T" Boned by a 88 year old driver with cateracts who didn't hear or see him.   

[HighOnHD]

Here we go again with the helmet police. BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!!!! Jesus 1 guy posts something about the novelty helmets and all of sudden the helmet police come out with a vengeance. We get it, you're smarter than everyone. So how about you stop running around babbling about how great your helmet is and just agree to disagree. We don't have a helmet law here AND WE LOVE IT! Rarely does anyone wear a helmet around here and that because IT"S OUR CHOICE NOT YOURS. Why is that so damn hard to comprehend?

Now, I am going to go for a ride WITHOUT a helmet. MY RIGHT. You get on your damn soap box and keep on preaching. You don't know me and it's none of your concern just worry about your ugly melons.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but none of you are going to get out alive. So while you are here quit your damn preachin, wear or don't wear a helmet, and get out and ride.

 

Hey Jesse,

Come on and admit it! You know you are a closet helmet wearer. 

[HighOnHD]

I have to admit I would tend to get pretty grumpy too if I did not want to wear a helmet, and I was afraid all the do-gooders were going to get together and force me to wear one. Not a happy thought. 

[MrSurly]

I don't care what anybody wears.
I USUALLY wear a lid, but not always, so I've no high horse to preach from.

I just have issues with bogus claims.

Ride free and I'll fight for your right.

[smkymtnboy]

Has anyone tried this Helmet @ bikerhelmets.com they say it's worlds smallest- lightest DOT beanie helmet ( Made in China has me thinking it's not very good ?? ) I was thinking about trying one it's cost $99.00 the Carbon one is $149.00

if, you are asking!!? anything Chinese that must met a spec or standard is usually substandard and not to spec from tires to helmets. that is a fact. they continually cheat and misrepresent. and to think Harley is silly enough to buy Chinese made parts. oh boy!

[cembo]

I don't want to be "that guy", but I cannot sit idly by and see this same old bullcrap repeated and left unchallenged. These same old talking points get regurgitated year after year and they remain as false as when they were first uttered.
Real studies DO exist.
Lid haters dislike them
Helmets don't magically save EVERY life. Lid haters say "SEE, they don't work!"
Lid haters make up crap like "helmets kill people" instead of just saying the truth, which is "we don't like them"
The real issue is personal freedom, which I fully support and will defend. I fight for no-lid laws.
But, physics is physics and facts is facts.
Don't be makin' sh!t up.

Well said - nothing more to add!

[Road Dad]

I am for everyone having a choice but I don't want to pay for someone that chose to bounce their head of the Tarmac without a helmet and  stays in a coma for years -$$$$$$$$

Same thing with healthcare. Great to see that companies have the smokers and the obese paying for the higher risk. (That will be mandatory in 8-9 years is my guess). Again. If someone chose to smoke it's their choice.  I just don't want to pay for the cancer treatment.

So have your choice but pay for it. That seem fair to me.

[mark]

The article seems to suggest that some riders buy novelty helmets thinking they are "real" helmets.  Really?  Anyone with a non-DOT helmet knows what they have. 

[bigdave110]

My brother has a novelty helmet and has been using it for years.
I ask him every time we ride, why wear that damn thing, there is no helmet law now, just go with out it.
His response is always, (I am used to it).

Him and all his friends used to wear them sort of in protest, and they where much lighter than helmets of old.
With the new technology, the newer helmets are pretty light on the head.

Just my 2cents.

For the record, sometimes I wear one, sometimes I don't.  (Real helmet)

Not forcing my reasons and opinions on anyone else, please do not preach to me.

That being said.

Have a great day.   

[grc]

The article seems to suggest that some riders buy novelty helmets thinking they are "real" helmets.  Really?  Anyone with a non-DOT helmet knows what they have.

Most folks who've been riding for a long time know exactly what those "novelty" helmets really are.  However, the regulators and enforcement folks have to look out for those who really don't know any better.  It's no different than many other counterfeit or misleading products on the market.  People get scammed on other stuff like fake prescription drugs from our fine friends in China for instance.  Even reasonably well informed people can easily be scammed these days by people who are highly motivated.

For those who turned this into a "live free or die" thread, it's not about whether you should be forced to wear a helmet.  It's about the right of the consumer to know what he's buying is a legit product.  As for those who knowingly buy them to skirt helmet laws, as long as they know what they're buying isn't going to really protect them, and they are willing to accept responsibility for their decision, fine by me. 

Jerry

[03Lightningrocks]

Most folks who've been riding for a long time know exactly what those "novelty" helmets really are.  However, the regulators and enforcement folks have to look out for those who really don't know any better.  It's no different than many other counterfeit or misleading products on the market.  People get scammed on other stuff like fake prescription drugs from our fine friends in China for instance.  Even reasonably well informed people can easily be scammed these days by people who are highly motivated.

For those who turned this into a "live free or die" thread, it's not about whether you should be forced to wear a helmet.  It's about the right of the consumer to know what he's buying is a legit product.  As for those who knowingly buy them to skirt helmet laws, as long as they know what they're buying isn't going to really protect them, and they are willing to accept responsibility for their decision, fine by me. 

Jerry

I was going to post something similar. While in Daytona this year during bike week, I noticed they were selling the crap out of these novelty helmets. I did hear a few conversations between buyers and sellers that would support the theory that some folks don't realize the difference.

[MrSurly]

Some folks *absolutely* don't know that there are "non-functional" helmets out there.
There are new riders every day and "DOT" is not automatically included knowledge.


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[mark]

Just curious...I wonder if those that knowingly wear novelty helmets would buy novelty life preservers for their boat?