I'll wear a helmet when you can guarantee me that I will never die. We all are going to die some time with or with out a helmet. I've seen to many people with pious attitudes about things like helmets and smoking fall over dead to worry about it. Life is a risk, live it or not its up to you, not the courts or any one else.

 

Please ilaberate while I go clean my tighty whiteys.

 

when i had to carry new helmet home from bike shop i just wrapped the chin strap around the left shock and clip it. seemed to work fine.

 

Took off Saturday a.m. cold morning for a funeral with my full face helmet on. As the day, temperature, and my sinus problem wore on - the helmet HAD TO GO. It felt like someone was driving nails in the top of my head, and it was seriously affecting my ability to drive my bike without wanting to go postal.
I pulled it down over my sissy bar, cinched the chin strap down, snapped it - and was off again - free of the nails in the top of my head, and calm once again.

 

It all depends on how fabulous my hair is looking that day.

 

I wear a seatbelt when I drive a car. I wear boots, leather jacket, gloves, and full face when I ride a motorcycle. I fell 15 feet off a roof. Now 15 feet is not very far. I have never hurt soooo much. I thought I would be ok in two weeks... I broke my spine and was lucky I didn't croak that day. It took five years before I was no longer in pain. I finally healed. Protective equipment is no guarantee, but it helps. Have you ever slipped and hit your head on concrete? Now think what that is like when you are going 35mph!

 

I usually don't, but will on highway, etc. they really destroy the ride for me. The weight, wind noise. I have to buy a XL-XXL everytime, and they are hjust HUGE on my head. Catch a lot of wind and make it hard to ride.

 

In SC you don't need a helmet, But in NC you do and I live 1/2 mile from the border. So I just get used to wearing it all the time.

 

I recently bought a helmet specifically for riding to and through states with helmet laws, acarbon fiber Daytona Skull Cap. Light weight, comfortable,DOT approved, andhalf price! on the down side, the half price deal was, "here it is, take it or leave it", and was a size or so too large. The good news is that with some adhesive strips of foam I got from a western store hat department, it now fits nicely. I won't pretend to think it will protect me in the event of a crash nearly as well as a helmet that fits properly right off the shelf, but it doesn't move around on my head with 25 mph crosswinds while riding at 75 mph either. That means it will do what I got it for. If I am riding in a state that doesn't require helmet use, I may or may not wear a helmet. My risk, my choice. I have good health insurance, so I won't be a tax burden should my brain become oatmeal.

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People can choose (some states) to wear a helmet or not. IMHO, I think it looks silly seeing someone not wearing a helmet, but it's strapped right behind them.