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Do you wear a helmet?

Jayson459 said:
Usually Wear a Helmet but like Freedom to Chose which FL is .. Once in a while down the Boonies Backroads is nice to Feel the wind with No Lid...
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+1. I am glad that I live in a state that gives us the choice, but I always wear a helmet anyway. During these hot Florida days, however, I totally get those that don't wear one. I always figured that with my luck, the first day I ride lidless is the day I smack a curb with the noggin.
 
Helmets are required by law up here, although I would probably wear one anyway. I went without a helmet while I was in Arkansas, but I found it to be a little uncomfortable.
 
I live in Massachusetts and by law we have to wear a helmet in this state. What is interesting though is that in neighboring Rhode Island & Connecticut, you don't have to wear a helmet and it shows whenever I ride in those states. It seems to me that if a state doesn't require a helmet people won't wear one. It is good to read in this forum that a great many of us do!
 
In Montreal you have to wear an helmet and it have to be approve DOT otherwise it can cost you a lot of money... Sometimes when we go down to New-Hampshire (which is a gorgeous place to ride with beautiful road and nice people) we take off our helmet but it feels funny. My wife prefer to keep it on.
 
I wear half shell.

The first bike I ever rented with the intention of going on a rally with I was in an accident. The person behind me rear ended me going about 40 or so. I was wearing full leathers and a helmet, the two people on the bike behind me we're wearing leather and no helmets. Both of them were care flighted away and spent the next week in the hospital, I stood up, spent about 7 minutes in shock as it was a rough hit and walked away. I didnt even go to the hospital. Both bikes were a total loss by the way.

6 months later a friend who rode in that same rally got into an accident and died because she has one too many to drink and was not wearing her helmet.

An employee of my sisters company pulled out in front of a pair of motorcycles having not seen either one and killed the first one on impact. He was a very experienced rider and is now facing manslaughter charges. I feel sorry for both of them to be honest. Likely the rider would have lived had he been wearing a helmet and because he choose not too and died, he will likely ruin the other guys life who he hit.

Wear a helmet.
 
In my earlier years, I always wore a full face Bell Star. My first bike, first accident, Nov. '72, the helmet saved my life for sure. Still have it, and the chips and abrasions down the backside of it testify to what would have happened to my head if I'd gone without. In 1981, on a dirtbike, I lost control and had a disagreement with an oak tree next to the trail I was on. Oak tree won. Split my 3/4 helmet nearly in half, but that's a lot better than my head having to take the impact. Also broke left leg, tore up cartilage in left knee and severed quad. muscle. Off work seven months but alive, due to the helmet.

Fast forward couple of decades. 56 years old now. Was without a bike since 2003 then I bought a Softail Deluxe in April, traded it in on a Road King last month. Sure is fun riding here in Texas without a helmet, but, after riding around the Dallas area last week, and the ensuing adrenalin rush that is Dallas traffic, I went and bought a half helmet today at the local HD Dealership.

I'll try to avoid riding in Dallas, but either way, I think I'm going to be using that helmet every ride from now on. I don't think my "Good Luck" account has much left in it at this point so, it's a lid for me.
 
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