Motorcycle Helmets Can Come Off Today In PA

“Yah, I won't ride because I have kids.

I've already warned my wife that I may ride home on one after they're grown.”

“that is just not fair...Tarpy has monkeys at home to think about, and he still rides! j/k, hee hee! he's really careful. however, if he didn't wear a helmet, i would murder him.”

“Aha! Proof that not wearing a helmet will get you killed!”

“hee hee! :-) see, you were right, Aero!”

“She don't monkey around ;]”

“C:) See? I have mine on!”

“It is not helmets or the lack that drives the cost of health insurance.

Life support is what costs.
No one can make a decision that it is time to start organ farming because maybe 1 in 2 billion of these people might recover.

Compare the TV shows like Baywatch and ER, 20 minutes after the CPR the patient is back on the disco floor. In reality only 1 in 167 heart attack patients who get CPR ever leave the hospital alive. The 166 who die all cost the same as the 1 that lives, but as a society we carry that cost.
Take a look at the costs of apheresis, how many of those patients live for real. By live for real I mean outside of the clinic.

I have known Emphysema and Cancer patient whose illnesses were artificially prolonged until even the morphine would not stop the pain. Both of them said no to more treatment, with one of them we had to get an outside doctor and a lawyer to enforce the patients living will saying 'no' to the life support machines.

If a person chooses not to wear a helmet, let them choose, but add the caveat that treatment is limited and no helmet is implied permission for organ donations.

Ditto seatbelts, dont wear 'em, permission granted.”

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me too, but mine's full-face...”

“c:]”

“<(:0

Pointy Prussian-type helmet...”

“(#:]”

“C8^)
Goggles, too!”

“I crashed my dirt bike doing somewhere between 60 and 70 mph. I had complete body armor from fiberglass boots to a full-face helmet and literally didn’t get a single scratch on me. My bike ended up in several pieces. Another time I skidded along the ground for 50 feet or so with the helmet over my forehead and the helmet over my mouth being the only contact point with the ground. I wouldn’t have a face today if I’d had a regular helmet on.

After seeing the results from too many street bike accidents, I won’t ride one.

Again - I have no point to make at all.”

“While driving to Pitt, PA and back this weekend, I kept a tally on those bikers I passed wearing and not wearing helmets. It was relatively 50/50.

Talking to my uncle and cousin, whom both own Harleys, at a family reunion yesterday, both also said they've noticed it's about a 50/50 split.

And after seeing my cousin who just got his first Harley, I gotta say that just because you own a Harley doesn't mean you have to own and wear just about every piece of Harley clothing on the market. I think donning a Harley shirt, hat, belt AND boots is going a little too far, imo. Ya know what I mean???”

“Yeah...I've even seen guys on a bike have no helmet and the woman on the back wear one....”

“While walking on the Delaware Canal towpath yesterday, I tried to get a running estimate as they drove along Route 32 on their hogs. It looked to be about 40 percent with no helmets and 60 with. We're talking hundreds of cycles here. It was a long walk.

And like Adventurist, some guys drove without while honey pie on the back wore one. But there were also cases where both didn't wear.

It seemed to me as the day wore on, more and more appeared without. I suspect some took them off when they saw others without, because there were some where they had the helmet affixed to the rear seat back.”