Why you shouldn't wear a helmet

[mujambee]

These are real justifications on why you shouldn't wear a helmet:

1. It reduces your hearing and, to a lesser extent, your peripheral vision.
2. Other drivers don't treat you as a person, as they can't see your face.

[Trudes]

3. Vegetables are really attractive.
4. Who needs a brain anyway?

[ital916]

5. A helmet stops one from slicking back their hair like the fonz and going "aaaaaaaye" to the passing chicas.










p/t

[mozzee]

6. You don't have to take your earrings out...
7. Squinting in the rain and to avoid bugs keeps your concentration level up...

[Subike]

8. you cant hide your age or sex

[slofox]

9. Riding into a swarm of bees becomes MUCH more interesting...

[Swoop]

When you encounter rain (or worse, hail) with your face at 200kmh, you will know about it...

[BOGAR]

10. You don't have to take it off to go into a gas station to pay. :laugh:

[Quasievil]

These are real stoopid reasons why you shouldn't wear a helmet:

1. It reduces your hearing and, to a lesser extent, your peripheral vision.
2. Other drivers don't treat you as a person, as they can't see your face.

just edited it a bit for you as you obviously made a mistake

[Str8 Jacket]

11. You dont have to worry about losing your visor

[dipshit]

12. "Some passengers are afraid of juju (black magic), that they will disappear if they wear the helmet"

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.fa13bcec9b5b0a6ec4be8d80c038f79 9.381&show_article=1

[gijoe1313]

13. It means you don't have to deal with any animals peeing into your helmet.

14. It helps prove one of Darwin's theories.

15. There will be no more threads about whether it is polite to wear a helmet into a servo or not.

[Nasty]

11. You dont have to worry about losing your visor

16. Problem is that you do have to worry about messing your hair!!

[sinfull]

Helmets last longer that way, particuly if a crash occurs !

[EatOrBeEaten]

17. Members of the opposite sex love the skinless-face look.
18. Because every biker looks better when not wearing something that covers their entire face (also known as Carl Fogarty Syndrome) :laugh:

[MsKABC]

19. Carrying less weight on our motorcycles will enable us to ride much faster.

20. We will be able to recognise each other more easily, hence waving threads will become a thing of the past as we all wave to our friends.

[EatOrBeEaten]

21. We'll be even cooler than the Harley bucket-helm boys

[saltydog]

Hey I reckon Jon and Ponch wouldnt agree with this thread. They had the mekky helmets didnt they?! And they always wore them.

[Badjelly]

2. Other drivers don't treat you as a person, as they can't see your face.

You can avoid this problem by wearing an open-face helmet. This works until you fall off the bike onto your face. After that, no-one wants to see your face.

[T.I.E]

22. If you drop your helmet carelessly you dont have to replace it.

23. you wont need any anti fog accessories on those cold mornings.

saving all that money

24. ohhh and you wont have that annoying wind noise coming from the helmet either.

[TOTO]

25: Safety nazzis will shut up.

[Nagash]

26. You'll never have to take your glvoes off to do up your helemt again

27. The cops will be able to breathilise you more easily

[Mikkel]

9. Riding into a swarm of bees becomes MUCH more interesting...

And neither do you need to stop for lunch anymore...

[nudemetalz]

28. Riding a Guzzi without a Helmet is like driving a Ferrari with a mullet....

[wetdog]

29. It's easier to catch a bug if you feel a bit peckish. Got to keep those energy/protein levels up for concentration.

[Ragingrob]

30. What's the point, if you're wearing a half face anyway?

[madbikeboy]

31. Because it messes with your hair. (No more more helmet hair, yay!).

[Blackshear]

32. Less speding infringements, as you'll feel like you're going 3x faster without a helmet. IMAGINE THE SAVINGS!

[Road Warrior]

33. No Brain...No Pain :headbang:

Gary

[vifferman]

47. Other road users can hear and understand what you're yelling at them (and if they've got their windows up / the stereo on, and you enunciate carefully, they can still lip read).

62. You can pull kewl faces at kids in the back of the vehicle in front.

39. Double Snot streamers are such a kewl fashion accessory.

[Shadows]

40. Sex is so much better without one.

41. Some people are alllergic to latex.

42. There's no reason to pause between foreplay and sex.

43. Its fun to fight over who sleeps in the wet patch.

44. If you fall asleep straight afterwards you don't wake up three hours later with a blue knob.

[rocketman1]

45. You can drink while you ride
46. You can pick your nose while you drink
47. You can get flappy loose cheeks at 150km/hr,
48. Your eye lids blow wide open, real red rimmed eyes...nice

[Richi]

49. Snotsickles on cold mornings.

[KiwiKat]

50. Everyone will feel so much more beautiful when they see how ugly you really are.:oi-grr:

[peasea]

8. you cant hide your age or sex

Dunno about that one. What if you're a tranny with a facelift?

[bluebird]

there are plenty of "helmets" that are basically plastic beanies, or fake kraut helmets that can satisfy the need for "air":doctor:

[peasea]

Who wears a helmet coz they have to?

If the law said "choose for yourself" who would go without?

I would, but not all the time. I have done, even though the 'law' said I should, and I still do on occasion but I am very careful about where I do it.

For example; on the causeways in the hydro systems down south, and even then it's just at a cruise and in almost no-traffic conditions.

If you get a pace on you're going to get bugs in the face, hearing problems, dry skin (hate that, I look old enough as it is) and if it goes pear-shaped, an ugly moosh.

Touring, I wear a full-face by choice for the most part and I also wear a FF around town for the most part because I'm more likely to need the protection it offers in that arena. I sometimes wear an open-face for shorter, 100k-type, jaunts but often regret it when I come up behind a gravel truck, hit a swarm of insects or grab a big handful and the lid tries to climb off my head.

My ugly moosh has been slapped by all sorts; big bugs, rocks, hail, rain, snow, dust, sun, wind, you name it and now I choose the FF helmet more often than not. But it's my choice. I feel that if you want to ride without a helmet then go for it, just sign an ACC waiver before you ride saying "If I lose my face, don't fix me". If you're wearing an approved helmet, of whatever kind, then you deserve to be fixed up.

As an aside; race car drivers have the benefit of a thing called a Hans Device, which prevents whiplash. Bikers do not have that advantage. At the very least a neck-brace gives the head some support in an incident, and having a thick scarf (wrapped twice around the neck) could mean the differenece between a broken neck and not for a biker when the shit hits the fan. Not workable in summer though.

Helmets. I hate them because of what they CAN do to a neck, but you gotta love em for what they can protect by way your head in certain cirumstances. I see them as a necessary evil, the best of a bad bunch, if one thing can be termed a 'bunch'. You need some sort of protection for your face, your skull and your neck.

Maybe we should all ride in a body cast?

[Blackshear]

Maybe we should all ride in a body cast?

You're one step from insulting my safety if you don't say it's bubble-wrap lined!


:sherlock:
Wait.
Does the cast have hinges?

[elevenhundred]

2. Other drivers don't treat you as a person, as they can't see your face.

I like people not being able to see my face because they usually throw up when they do see it

[EatOrBeEaten]

51, You don't have to drill a hole in your lid if you want to smoke a tab while you ride.

[peasea]

You're one step from insulting my safety if you don't say it's bubble-wrap lined!


:sherlock:
Wait.
Does the cast have hinges?

Bubble-wrap? Can you imagine it? The Tribesmen M/C rocking up to the local bar with their ape-hangers, all done up to the nines with their leathers, club patches and shit, bubble-wrapped to the max?

Mate, that's a good-un.

Kids would be running up, popping the bubbles one at a time, funnneeee. Good on ya!

[DarkLord]

52. You don't have to stop for lunch in the middle of a big ride - just open your yap and have yourself a mouthful of bugs. Mmmmm.... satisfying.

[Mystic13]

53. It'll save you a bit of cash not having to buy one or replace one.

54. You'd be able to pick up a pillion whenever you wanted to.

55. You don't have to take it off when you forget your earplugs.

56. it'll be easier to get the sunglasses on.

57. You'd look cooler.

58. You'd qualify for buying a Harley... maybe that's a reason to wear one.

59. (I so want to make 60.) A hot humid summers day would be more pleasant.

[Mystic13]

60. You'd never have to worry or wonder whether you should have bought the other helmet.

[LBD]

61) less bug splats on the visor...no more visor cleaning

62) less burden on the already overloaded health system

63) less burden on the welfare system collecting pensions

64) change the law now and create a short term cash injection into the economy...via the undertakers.

[Mystic13]

61) less bug splats on the visor...no more visor cleaning

62) less burden on the already overloaded health system

63) less burden on the welfare system collecting pensions

64) change the law now and create a short term cash injection into the economy...via the undertakers.

I wonder where the name "undertaker" came from. Under-taker. Someone who takes something that belongs under?

[LBD]

I wonder where the name "undertaker" came from. Under-taker. Someone who takes something that belongs under?

Guess thats like asking where the word exhume comes from....logically an undertaker would then be a person who inhumes a body...an inhumer?

And why is the word mortgage so like mortition and morturary?