Hardcore Punk
We have a neighbour who has a KTM 450, looks quite new. He races up and down the road all the time with no helmet on, doin wheeleies and shit and I,m just dreading the day when I have to hose his thick gooey skull matter off of the road in front of the house so the cats do not lick it up, then vomit it all over the house.
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Last of a dying breed
When young we rode without helmets. When older I used to travel to Italy in the summers (I lived in Skandinavia) where you did not need a helmet. These days I ride dirt bikes on the beach without a helmet. And I have never used a helmet on a pushbike. I am clearly of a different breed, as when I sit on a bike w/o a helmet my head does not explode and I die, like the rest of you. Let those who ride decide.Originally Posted by unstuck
We have a neighbour who has a KTM 450, looks quite new. He races up and down the road all the time with no helmet on, doin wheeleies and shit and I,m just dreading the day when I have to hose his thick gooey skull matter off of the road in front of the house so the cats do not lick it up, then vomit it all over the house.
Hardcore Punk
I have ridden without a helmet too,and still do, but nowhere near like what this fella does, If I have no helmet I just pootle along. But hey Its his life and he can do whatever he wants, I am more worried about him doing it outside my place, cos then I would feel obliged to help the fuckwit. Purely selfish motivation.
For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
ZZZZZZZZZZ
You too...seriously?
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a helmet to me... is like my seatbelt in my car. There's never a time I don't wear it minus moving it around in a car park etc. I just feel naked, kind of exposed... I won't even let anyone ride in my car without a seatbelt on, not for their sake but for mine... it's probably just indicative of the age I grew up in, safety conscious in that. It's all very natural to me, never a nuisance and not something I've ever had to think about twice. To each their own but I'd hate to have people think I'm OTT by choosing to wear my helmet always...
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
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I agree with you 100%! Helmets, like seat belts, are not a fashion accessory they are to stop your head cracking open and spilling your brains out in the hopefully unlikely event you fall off.
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Yep.
Lots of things might kill me. I don't worry about them all, sometimes I just do stuff cos its fun, even if its not perfectly safe. Like riding a motorcycle for example.
I wear a helmet most of the time, but not always.
I enjoy the sights and smells of the country, tootling down a quiet back road, or down the beach to a good surfcasting spot. Often with my helmet on, sometimes not.
And I enjoy watching the same kiwis who lecture me about my helmet usage, blasting around Rarotonga on scooters they don't know how-to-ride while half pissed and helmetless.
Lots of people believe helmets are magic and if they have the magic on their head they will be OK.
Me, I just ride carefully all the time. I think my helmet is a helpful non magic bit of compressed foam, that if I am lucky might help. Then again it might not.
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Speaking of smells, all I smell is people burning crap in their backyards, stinky car fumes and the occasional god awful burp inside my helmet after I've eaten Indian food. BUT today I rode past the sea and what a lovely smell that was! All the things you miss when you're in your cage. I don't believe in magic, just feel like a helmet or a seatbelt, whichever is applicable, is just another extension of myself, second nature really... what other people do I would probably frown but could really care less, so long as it doesn't effect me then meh.
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
Rasta Ratskins
You don,t like that?
Ice cream burps in the helmet are the best!
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I'd prefer an icecream burp, if I had to choose.
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
Born to be mild
Rum burps are fairly entertaining so I'm told. My work commute takes me past the sewerage setting ponds and from time to time it's like someone has done a bottom-burp in my helmet.
Grow older but never grow up
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anyway I'm a ladddddddy, we don't burp, most uncivilized!
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
Anarchic Wild Child
Yeah me too ... I was riding aroudn Auckland on the day that helmets became compulsory - and I didn't have one .. I have a Beritish Motorcycle News magazine from 1949 with a letter saying arguing against the introducion of complusory helmet laws (yeah - that long ago) on the grounds that helmets were only of use when an accident was actually happening and therefore making them compulsory was a waste of time ...
But the bikes we had then were slower ... (so were their brakes - slower to work I mean - and had frames made from pasta) ...
Three months after helmets were made compulsoty a rider I knew loaned his helmet to his girlfriend so she could sit on the back and he'd drop her off at home .. half a mile later a car went through a red light - he went over the bonnet and hit his head in the gutter across the road ... died five days later ... his girlfriend was thrown a distance, rolled, stood up and walked away ... those of us who watched it happened never rode, or let anyone one the back, without a helmet.
I swore I'd never ride in a full face .. 'till I bought one for commuterr comfort asnd then dropped a bike and the full face saved my face from any damage ...
Now, when I, on the very rare odd occassion, ride without a helmet it brings back memories - and a few fears too .. I'd never seriously ride without one .. they have saved me on a number of ocassions ..
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
Anarchic Wild Child
Yes .. that's about it ..
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
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