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xoomer3 · Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 9

What is your take on Helmet Laws?

I hear a lot of comments about helmet laws. Should your state be able to regulate whether or not you should wear a helmet? If you live in a helmet free state, do you still wear one?

alexander · Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 6

I say ... Let me be the JUDGE !! I personally live in a helmet required state. I rode to Sturgis in 05'. When I was in a helmet state I wore one. ( not always DOT approved " I really looked forward to travelling through kentucky, illinois, iowa and South Dakota ! While travelling through those states I was able to experience the freedom as it was intended !

ZX6RIDER · Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 1

I PERSONALLY THINK IT JUST DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH YOU THINK YOUR HEAD IS REALLY WORTH. MY FRIEND JUST TOTALED HIS BIKE A FEW MONTHS AGO, AND THANK GOODNESS HE HAD A HELMET ON, OR HE WOULD NOT BE HERE ANY LONGER.

londonlad · Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 2

Just don't care to have some fat-ass, pin-head bufoon of a politician telling me what I have to do, wear or anything else. Let me take care of myself!

jpgator7 · Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 2

Many states with helmet laws are concerned with uninsured motorcyclists riding helmetless because they don't want to have take care of them medically, using public funds should they wreck. Could be a good argument. It only takes 7lbs. of pressure to break ones neck. If a motorcyclist gets into a wreck and is wearing a helmet, he could potentially survive, but what if he ends up a quadriplegic and requires long term care? What if he didn't have a helmet on? He might have died not requiring any medical care, nor life long suffering on his part. That would eliminate the use of public funds, right? That is a good argument, too. Personally, I'd rather be riding up in heaven in the presence of God than blowing into a straw to make my wheelchair go forward and burdening someone else by requiring them to change my diapers serveral times a day and spoon feed me.

We as bikers recognize and identify that there are increased risks associated with riding and we voluntarily accept and "choose" to take those risks. To make a helmet law with only financial considerations in mind unfairly penalizes those that do carry insurance, like myself. I like riding without a helmet-it completes the freedom of riding, to deny me that choice should be nobodys right. If legislators are interested in making laws regarding motorcycle riders, they should make it against the law for drivers to kill bikers by not being responsible behind the wheel. A little old lady pulled into a biker's path in Tennessee last week and killed him instantly. She received a ticket for reckless driving....she should have been arrested for negligent manslaughter. This happens all the time where bikers get their right of way taken away from them resulting in accidents that kill or maim. Where's the justice in that?