Originally Posted by DPelletier

Not sure why the cruiser crowd has such a problem with helmets

Dave

Originally Posted by edilgdaor

Not sure why helmet-lovers have such a problem with their perception of the "cruiser crowd".

I may have ten helmets. All of them are full-face. All of them are comfortable, partly because they are expensive. Oddly, I'm extremely claustrophobic but I don't have any trouble with putting on a helmet.

It's a conditioned response, I guess. I always have a good time after I put on a helmet.

Originally Posted by 118of1050

As a retired motor cop, I've seen my fair share of motorcycle crashes. I used to think the same way as you until I witnessed on more than one occasion novelty helmets inflicting jury in a crash. Upon impact, I've seen them shatter and impale shards of that novelty plastic in both ride and passenger...

I know it's not cool to look like the little green guy Gazoo from the Flintstone's, but better to look like him than look dead!

Sometimes, helmets do nothing more than provide your family the option of having an open casket viewing at the wake, but other times they do exactly what they're designed to do...

Before I retired, I would've written you too! Sorry but...

Ride safe and make the right choice!

All of the above is just my humble opinion based on life, experience and common sense and in this particular case supported by law in many localities!

Originally Posted by Jake911

Don't beleive that for a second, but many do drink the coolade. In Nebraska, the government paid for all uninsured mototcycle injury hospital care. Not the insurance companies. In fact, when a state enacted a mandatory helmet law that state lost millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs due to the decline in motorcycle sales, repairs and related employment. In Nebraska the sales dropped 48% when mandatory helmet laws were enacted. A study at the University of North Carolina also confirmed that motorcycle accidents do not increase the insurance rates of others on the road.

Originally Posted by stro1965

BS. If my insurance rates go up because you chose not to wear a helmet and cost the insurance company a couple million bucks to keep you alive, it absolutely does affect me and every other driver on the road.

Originally Posted by DPelletier

I dont get the whole "helmets look dorky" attitude that most harley riders have. Do some of you have giant heads or really scrawny bodies or something? I remember i couldnt wait to get my first new full face helmet in 1981, a Bell Moto III. I loved that helmet and thought it was the coolest thing ever. So did all my buddies. 30 years later and 30 motorcycles later, both on and off road, and i still think my helmets look cool. Never once did i get on my ktm and pull on my shoei or climb aboard my zx6r and don my Bell, did i ever once think i looked goofy with my helmet on. Now i wear my flat black hjc is max and think its the cats azz.....course now that im old i really dont give a crap what anybody else thinks i look like.

Not sure why the cruiser crowd has such a problem with helmets

Dave

Originally Posted by rickinindy66

If that is your argument then motorcycles should be illegal. As snow skiing, ATV's, cars, junk food, football.... Geeze, must be a democrat.