If you wanna play you gotta pay...

 

Last June the helmet law repeal was on gov Granholms desk & it was approved by the house but she vetoed it, ABATE & the MI Gov are trying to come to a conclusion the what they came up w/ was awful. Youd have to get a permit to wear a helmet in MI $100 yr & you had to be riding for atleast 2 yrs, have a saftey class etc. This is in the begininning stages but its BS. Ill wear my helmet & I wont pay to not wear it.

 

Here's the situation I would like to throw out:

Say i live in FL, my bike is not required to be inspected by the state on an annual basis (at least it didnt when I was living there), so why is it that I can ride that bike that has not gone through the compliance of a state inspection into a state that requires 1.

Let me put it a different way, my DL, marriage license, auto tags all are recognized in all 50 states. Yet I'll get harrassed cause my truck is too tall, or the windows are too dark, or the exhaust is too loud in another state when it its perfectly legal in my home state. My plate should dictate the laws I am governed by as far as mechanical and appearal. My insurance company insures me out of TX, a state that has a no-helmet exemption with the proper provisions...therefore, I am still insured the same ridin into LA and LA should not care - that TX plate says I have the right to ride w/out.

So now will come the states rights agruement. The state does have the right to governor its people but when my vehicle or myself become illegal simply cause I crossed a line seems a little 1800s. Its just a car/truck/bike/rider and they will pass through and go back home soon. Maybe if this was the way things were, the legislatures would see what the public really wants when all the vehicles are registered in FL were the trucks are tall, the windows are dark and the hair can fly. Maybe they'll wonder where all there tax $$ ares.