well this weekend on the warm sunday afternoon, (before the steelers kicked the crap out of the pats) my brother-in-law and i went for a ride, we meet up and me being a pennsy rider and a warm day, i decided to go with the wind in my face, so we meet and he says he wants to go to a place called hawks nest(nice canyon type road, well we ride about an hour to get to the place and as we are getting close we cross a bridge and i see delaware river on the sign at the bridge, well after a couple min i realize im now in NY state and yes they do have a helmet law . needles to say it only took a min or two for me to be stopped and i got luck with only a warning, but had to leave right away, i didnt even get to see this road that i drove over an hour to see, oh well maybe next weekend
umm.....yes i do own a helmet officer?!?!
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Wear your helmet, its there to protect your inerds.
my father has been a harley owner since the 60's and i guess the let those who ride decide kinda rubbed off, i do actually wear my helmet 95% of the time, if i owned a harley i might not wear it at all but with the style of riding i feel much safer with my bucket on
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Its good that you wear it, although I thik 100% of the time is the only way to go.
In texas they have helmet laws, but they are completely unenforced.
In texas they have helmet laws, but they are completely unenforced.
Arizona is a right-to-choose state. I choose to wear mine. On our group rides it is a mix of lids and no-lids. 
Since March of this year 2 acquaintences and 1 friend have had serious accidents. The first two were lidless, one died at the scene from severe head trauma. The second one was airlifted to the hospital and survived... severe head trauma. He may or may not regain all of his faculties. Bummer to be the family member that has to change his sheets and wipe his rear end for him, but love conquers all I suppose. :?
My friend and his 10 year old daughter were run off the road by an RV... she dismounted early on during the slide and tumbled and rolled to a stop. VERY minor road rash considering they were doing about 70 or so when they went down. Knees and elbows skinned, healed right up. Her dad, my best friend, was drug down the pavement along with the bike for a measured 180 feet with his left foot pinned between the floorboard and shifter. Near the end of the slide the bike caught something and flipped to the right side with him still in the saddle and drug him farther. His road rash was much worse, a few months now and you can still see the pink skin. Ankles were both sprained but not broken... he was wearing good biker boots. They were both wearing good, full face helmets and leather gloves also. If you saw the helmets, man, they are messed up. But neither one got any damage to their face or head, and neither one suffer a broken neck and ended up in a wheelchair. Thank goodness for that.
All three bikes were BFC's (Big Fat Cruisers). Some say "I don't wanna end up a cripple from wearing a helmet so I go without. If I am gonna die I wanna just die and not be a burden." Interesting that out of the 4 people that went down hard the only one gettin' his butt wiped by someone else was a lidless rider of the "I don't wanna end up a cripple" crowd. The other lidless one died on scene and the two with helmets walked away, literally. Anyway, I wear a full-face helmet. Always have worn helmets. Even when riding with the Harley guys, a lot of whom do not wear helmets, but quite a few do. I wear it for me and my family, I do not leave it off for others and their opinions. 8)
And THAT is my opinion.
Since March of this year 2 acquaintences and 1 friend have had serious accidents. The first two were lidless, one died at the scene from severe head trauma.
The second one was airlifted to the hospital and survived... severe head trauma. He may or may not regain all of his faculties. Bummer to be the family member that has to change his sheets and wipe his rear end for him, but love conquers all I suppose. :? My friend and his 10 year old daughter were run off the road by an RV... she dismounted early on during the slide and tumbled and rolled to a stop. VERY minor road rash considering they were doing about 70 or so when they went down. Knees and elbows skinned, healed right up. Her dad, my best friend, was drug down the pavement along with the bike for a measured 180 feet with his left foot pinned between the floorboard and shifter. Near the end of the slide the bike caught something and flipped to the right side with him still in the saddle and drug him farther. His road rash was much worse, a few months now and you can still see the pink skin. Ankles were both sprained but not broken... he was wearing good biker boots. They were both wearing good, full face helmets and leather gloves also. If you saw the helmets, man, they are messed up. But neither one got any damage to their face or head, and neither one suffer a broken neck and ended up in a wheelchair. Thank goodness for that.
All three bikes were BFC's (Big Fat Cruisers). Some say "I don't wanna end up a cripple from wearing a helmet so I go without. If I am gonna die I wanna just die and not be a burden." Interesting that out of the 4 people that went down hard the only one gettin' his butt wiped by someone else was a lidless rider of the "I don't wanna end up a cripple" crowd. The other lidless one died on scene and the two with helmets walked away, literally. Anyway, I wear a full-face helmet. Always have worn helmets. Even when riding with the Harley guys, a lot of whom do not wear helmets, but quite a few do. I wear it for me and my family, I do not leave it off for others and their opinions. 8)
And THAT is my opinion.
There is a quote that one of my friends uses....inspiron said:
"If you don't think you need a helmet,..... you probably don't" :wink:
I wear my helmet every time, no exceptions. I wear it for myself and my family. It is as much a part of riding as putting the key in the ignition. It is just something you have to do to go for a ride. I am also a confessed gear nazi and wear full leather, every time, no exceptions. That doesn't make it right for everyone though and I am glad to live in a place where I have the right of choice. It comes back to acceptable risk and the choices we make as adults. My choice is to get all the protection I can get.
Glad you didn't get a ticket out of the deal.....no offense, Your acceptable risk is that you would not go down on that day and that if you did you were willing to accept whatever became of you......still, unless I read that wrong, going to ride a canyon road without a lid? You might want to consider that ticket as a "Darwin Warning". :lol:
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I mean . . seriously . . . who would want to mess up this beautiful face? Huh?
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If you could look at my soul . . . that's what you'd see.
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