Anyone else want to protest helmet law?

[nolton]

The birds fly at me when I'm parked as well...........

Sorry, but too funny. Ride safe friend.

 

[scot in exile]

we've had the helmet law since 1972. you can always tell an old biker in this country, by his lack of ears and being deaf only a sikh is excempt cos he'd need to remove his turban . w.t.f. racial prejudice or what ? think we should go burn some cars and throw stones at coppers like they do when we get sommat and they don't.

In the early seventies back home in Scotland one of them Sikh guys took his case to court saying he could not wear a helmet because of the diaper on his head, when the case continued the judge said to him, Sir I have been in contact with two firms that make helmets and both said that they could custom make one for you - case closed buy a helmet like everyone else or do not ride a motorbike.

 

[scot in exile]

Helmets have been compulsory here for as long as I can remember; in fact I can't recall it not being a requirement. It's second nature now and the few times I've move a bike one a roadway without one it actually felt odd. I do like an open face though and generally only use a full face in rain and extreme cold.

It's not just major accidents that are the worry either. I had a very slow come off some years back - was behind a car pulling into another road and it suddenly stopped. I was barely moving but hit the front brake too hard with the bars turned slightly and over it went. I went down with the bike (Vulcan) and wacked my head hard enough on the ground to crack the plastic shell of the helmet. Another time I was cruising along minding my own business and a magpie flew straight into my head. I saw it at the last second. The noise scared the **** out of me and it cracked the visor, knocked my head and shoulder back and almost had me off. Similar experience from time to time with small branches and stones.

I'm with GPMAZ on this one.

That magpie must have been after your shiney nose ring.

 

[saboteur]

Oh, the irony.

 

[garyclem]

Exactly what it says.

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http://www.safesci.unsw.edu.au/downloads/riskofheadfacialandneckinjury.pdf

 

[dirtbagbiker]

it is funny to read these post on the 4th of july. what ever happened to freedom??? or free dumb. if you want to wear helmet wear it if not don't.. i do not think anyone wants to die in a mc crash but it happens. do you beleave in god ? because when you are called you have to answer the call. when your time is up you time is up. live your life how you want to. i love the NH state moto. LIVE FREE OR DIE happy 4th of july.the only true holiday in america..

 

[HD2Rocket3]

In my recent little accident when we were gathering up our stuff for the ride home, I noticed a nice deep scrape in my face shield, I didn't even realize I had landed on my face. I would have had a good case of road rash on my face if I hadn't been wearing a helmet with a shield. In my case, that might have been an improvement, but for most folks it probably wouldn't Anyway, if I wasn't a believer before, I am now.

 

[HellFire]

Why not just make bikes illegal as well? Don't they cause more fatalities as a percentage when compared to cars? Hell, make cars that go fast against the law too ... why does the average American need to drive faster than 65mph?

This country and it's laws are laughable any more ... take away tobacco, make me wear a seat belt and helmet all to "keep down health care costs" but sell expensive fast cars to anyone with cash and veto national health care. Give a drivers license to any idiot like it's their god-given-right to have one even though they don't posses the skills to operate a blender, make insurance mandatory at the same time making it more expensive ... to protect the weakest links in society who shouldn't be on the highway anyway. 100 years ago these were the people who walked everywhere because a horse and saddle were too complicated for them, now they have automatic transmissions in disposable cars on bald tires and metal-to-metal brakes.

I'm sick and tired of my freedoms being legislated down to nothing to protect stupid from stupid. Laws are added every day yet none ever come off the books ... EVER! Hell, they don't even bother to put them to a vote any more, they just HAPPEN! New Jersey actually got their helmet law repealed a few years ago since it was "unconstitutional" and I thought Jersey didn't have a helmet law. Yesterday I found out that they do again, the repeal lasted less than a year and was reenacted under a different "statute" that now makes it "constitutional" ... WTF? How did they do that one?

If you want to make helmet laws for under age or new riders, fine. But leave the old riders who have nothing to loose and might just WANT a good reason to die alone. If I want to feel the wind and It's just my life, who are you to tell me I can't? Nobody pays my health insurance, auto insurance and they certainly aren't just giving me money to buy food, clothing or shelter. What gives them the right to dictate if my brain survives an accident caused by the same moron the government saw fit to issue a drivers license too?

This country is so full of hypocrites, busybodies and snoops I'm surprised anyone has the time to wipe their own ars worried if the other guy did or not.

(My soap box just broke) lol

 

[GPMAZ]

it is funny to read these post on the 4th of july. what ever happened to freedom??? or free dumb. if you want to wear helmet wear it if not don't.. i do not think anyone wants to die in a mc crash but it happens. do you beleave in god ? because when you are called you have to answer the call. when your time is up you time is up. live your life how you want to. i love the NH state moto. LIVE FREE OR DIE happy 4th of july.the only true holiday in america..

There's really nothing funny about the issue. And the point I was trying to make is that it has absolutely nothing to do with freedom. It has to do with responsibility. How can you possibly feel that your exercise of some misguided sense of freedom is worth depriving your children of their father, your parents of their son, your wife of her husband?

Riding a motorcycle is inherently dangerous and we all understand and accept that. But, while the risk can't be eliminated, it can be mitigated. Crossing the street can be dangerous. If there was a law saying you had to do it with your eyes open and look both ways would you advocate not doing so just to express your freedom? Of course not, its just common sense. Just like wearing protective gear when riding a motorcycle.

Furthermore, it has absolutely nothing to do with God, Santa Claus, or the Easter Bunny. Following your logic you may as well sky dive without a parachute. After all, if your time isn't up you'll just bounce right back up. Doesn't sound logical to me.

 

[HellFire]

There's really nothing funny about the issue. And the point I was trying to make is that it has absolutely nothing to do with freedom. It has to do with responsibility. How can you possibly feel that your exercise of some misguided sense of freedom is worth depriving your children of their father, your parents of their son, your wife of her husband?

That's one of my points right there ... What children? What parents? What wife? why is assumed that everyone HAS these things to be concerned over? Just because you or another does, why do I have to fall into the same category? I'm not the same as you, isn't that the point of America? Everyone is different? Why am I less of a person and looked at funny when someone finds out I don't have children? Why does "Kelly can work the holiday, he doesn't have kids" get said so often? Why does Bill in the next office deserve the promotion just because he has a "big family"? It's been "No kids?... what's wrong with you?" my entire adult life.

I'll tell you it's a choice I made for several reasons ... a big one is so I don't have them to depend on me if I get killed not wearing a helmet! But I don't have that choice because lawmakers have determined that they need to protect children from their parents lack of responsibility. Wouldn't it have been prudent in the first place if the government determined from the start whether this person should be raising children? Oh that's not right, you can't tell someone they can't have kids because they are irresponsible. Let them have all the kids they want, just pass laws that are designed to protect them later on from themselves. How silly is that?
It's just another blanket-knee-jerk-reactionary law enacted as a band-aid afterthought that effects everyone even though only a hand full caused the problem.

Same-as-it-ever-was.