I find it ironic that those folks on here who "adhere to personal rights" like it is life or death, are the same ones who hunt down insurance trying to find the cheapest ones available and complain it is too expensive.
You can't legislate away dumb. I swear if they said you shouldn't jump out of an airplane at 20,000 feet with no chute....you would run out of tickets on the first jumbo jet flight.
We all know that biking is dangerous, and each time you jump on the bike, it might be your last bike ride. Same with a sled, or go-kart, bungee jump, or balloon ride. Why would you do it without trying to remove as much possibility of death as you can?
No we can't go down thru life and put check marks on everything we do that's dangerous, and congress can enact laws enough to cover all of these things that cost everyone else money when you do them and it kills you. Helmet laws are easy to enforce.
But there are reasonable...REASONABLE...things you can do to try and prevent or lower your chances of death, or worse disability. Helmets are one of those things that fits this description completely. No it won't protect trying to jump 20 cars, or speeding down the interstate at 90 mph in heavy traffic, but then maybe it would...if you feel lucky.
Well do yah punk....do yah feel lucky?? Increase your odds that you can talk about it and explain how "lucky" you were by wearing a helmet.
I ride bike; I sold my bike when the kids came around...stayed off them for 20 years...now the kids are on their own, and I like biking but I wear a helmet...always, full face job (hate the idea of living but looking uglier than I already am) and I stay out of traffic. Yeah, I might meet my maker coming around a curve, or over a hill, but that's the chance I take. I ride snowmobiles the same way....safety first, last and always,....and everyone always has fun. Biking has to be the closest thing to horse and buggy rides...you smell everything you miss riding in a modern car.
If you don't see how the rest of society must pay for your stupidity by making you wear a helmet...then just try and understand that like when you were a kid, and your dad wanged you on the head a few times because you did something wrong....understand...NO means don't do it.
Leave the think'n to those who do it better.
I see a biker rid'n down the road without one...I think to myself...poor slob....he's got nothing to live for...and then I pity him.
Me....got too much stuff on the bucket list to cash it in just yet. Pick'n and choosen....on that list...leaving the most dangerous for last.
