Originally Posted by fat_tony

So you're saying we are safer without helmets? There have been many studies on motorcycle injuries and fatalities and many have looked at the issue of helmets causing injuries. None have found a single motorcycle fatality where helmet use was related to the cause of death. The one I am most familiar with is was done by Dietmar Otte, Hannover Medical University. The argument that helmets cause injuries is something put forward by people who simply want to justify their own behaviour. Don't wear a helmet if you don't want to but don't perpetrate falsehoods to support it. Falsehoods like these are dangerous as impressionable people like children may actually believe them and make bad decisions for themselves because of them.

I've done a face plant at 60mph and am pretty sure I would not be alive if I had not had a FF helmet on.

For more info on some of the other studies see the reference section of this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety

Sorry for taking this thread on a tangent. It's always a terrible thing to hear of a motorcycle fatality, especially when it is not the riders fault and even more tragic when a child dies.

Originally Posted by 2kids3pets

Putting a child on a motorcycle is just plain stupid

Originally Posted by scootertramp

Really? Cause my youngest son who's now 26 started making the Tahoe to San Diego run with me when he was 8! We all called him Iron Butt cause he'd do the 600 miles @ 80mph without even blinking! We have some great road stories & memories form those runs & still laugh about them today! Life's what you make of it! Stupidity comes in many flavors, such as your statement!
That being said. "My Condolences" No one should have to outlive their children.