I rode without a helmet before the law. I ride with a helmet after the law. I will ride with and at times without a helmet if the law is ever drop. Find one that fits good and lets ride..........:newsmile011:
Helmet has a bad name
- Thread starter walleye
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I don't wear one because of headaches and the wind rushing over my bald head. Used to like the wind in my hair. I know it could save my life but don't believe I have to be so defensive that every ride is ruined for that one time I might crash, and I say might. A guy has to go somehow and I could think of many worse ways than on a bike. Life has dangers and if all you want is to live longer, stay home! Every body dies but not everybody lives.
Chopper
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I don't wear a helmet because of safety issues I have with them, I go by my own personal life experiences of riding with and without a helmet. Helmet issues are never black or white, they can be debated till the cows come home, I can give numbers supporting not wearing and someone else can give numbers supporting wearing, There's no end to it because there is no single answer. I feel helmets are a compromise, they can be effective in certain circumstances and dangerous in others, so I just go by what life experiences I have and choose not to wear one. If some one wants to wear full body armor, great go for it, I just don't want to. I feel more rider education and public awareness of motorcycles will help all of us much more.
Can't really think of one good reason not to wear one, other than price (none is free) and adding it to the sequence of riding after you hit the start button. That is trumped by all the advantages of wearing one, 1) less wind noise, 2) warmer in cold weather and along with proper eye protection provides a calm envelop to concentrate on the road, 3) besides the obvious benefits of minimizing injury in the event of a head impact. I frankly am an advocate of helmets, only because it is the single proactive thing a rider can do to minimize head injury during direct impact, simply strapping it on.
I think most objections are related to convenience, comfort and by law required to wear one. We all know about heel & toe shifter, if it is not a good fit right off the bat, the new touring rider will pitch it...or opt for change. I think more riders would wear a helmet if they found one that fit properly, was light, and typically a 1/2 helmet to retain the open feel...right off the rack, and that is what worked for me! The other is of course, one I agree with: never liked to be TOLD what I HAVE to do, a law requiring helmet wear should have been one of choice, not a mandated option. JMHO.
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67Wizard made the most important point, the intangibles...that responsibility to loved ones trumps what you may personally feel about that helmet physically sitting in the garage rather than being properly strapped on. 
As well as the law and the safety aspects of a helmet it helps keep my head warm and the visor stops the rain and the flying beasts from hitting my face
however thinking back pre helmet law my parents always wore leather helmets and googles for weather protection and us kids were in a fully enclosed side car
Brian
however thinking back pre helmet law my parents always wore leather helmets and googles for weather protection and us kids were in a fully enclosed side car
Brian
Ahh...Brian...if only some of us had a dad who rode a classic bike with leather helmet, much less one with a side car...man-o-man I can only dream about such things.