Missouri considers repealing motorcycle helmet law

**Swoop** · 19th May 2009, 12:27

The thought of NZ's safety-nazi OSH morons, actually doing something against the grain...

Bahahahaha!!! Personal choice and personal responsibility? In NZ?

**skidMark** · 19th May 2009, 12:28

ridden without one for jaunts around the block once upon a time....great feeling wind in your hair etc...

but fuck coming off without one.

**2wheelsofjustice** · 19th May 2009, 13:38

Right - wind in your hair is fun.. wind whipping across the top of your exposed frontal-lobe is less fun.. or so I'm told.

Having to pilot a venice-style gondola through a sea of biker brains any time I wanted to cross a road would get tiresome pretty quick..

Edit: hmm first post.. so.. HI I'm seb

**GaZBur** · 19th May 2009, 14:15

If I didn't wear a helmet.
I would be dead at aged 17.
I would have probably died again at about 24.
I would have had serious head injuries but not possibly be dead at age 32.
I smashed a helmet at the track 18 months ago - it would have been serious without a helmet but was nothing because I was wearing one.
I am 50 and quite willing to smash up another few helmets before I give up - but I am not willing to smash up my brain.

Your choice though - don't let me influence you. The fact that I am here to make smarmy posts when I would otherwise have been dead for 33 years already says it all to me.

**skidMark** · 19th May 2009, 14:22

Originally Posted by GaZBur

If I didn't wear a helmet.
I would be dead at aged 17.
I would have probably died again at about 24.
I would have had serious head injuries but not possibly be dead at age 32.
I smashed a helmet at the track 18 months ago - it would have been serious without a helmet but was nothing because I was wearing one.
I am 50 and quite willing to smash up another few helmets before I give up - but I am not willing to smash up my brain.

Your choice though - don't let me influence you. The fact that I am here to make smarmy posts when I would otherwise have been dead for 33 years already says it all to me.

i think i have gone through about 8 helmets...

only got one noggin...

if it was a perfect world where an accident was only ever your fault then some people would go yeah no helmet...

but when retards pull u turns infront of ya.... is it really worth being killed for not wearing a lid when you come off at only 20-30kph?

**The Stranger:Me** · 19th May 2009, 14:31

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

Everything else aside... have you guys ever had a large bug (bumblebee for example) fly into your face?

That's reason enough for me to wear a full face. Safety stuff's a bonus.

This is why it is compulsory to wear eye protection in California.
But of course helmets are optional.

Presumably eyes are more important than brains in California.

**greminn** · 19th May 2009, 15:16

Originally Posted by Finn

I'm fine with that. User pays. Like it a lot.

And take the warning labels off everything!!

I know its HOT COFFEE damm it!

**Swoop** · 19th May 2009, 15:20

Originally Posted by The Stranger

This is why it is compulsory to wear eye protection in California.
But of course helmets are optional.

Presumably eyes are more important than brains in California.

The American OSHA has a reverse attitude to ours. They put less emphasis on hearing protection but more on eye protection.
The logic being that one can put in a hearing aid and still be able to hear, but an artificial eye cannot see for you.
Brains, on the other hand...

**Laxi** · 19th May 2009, 15:38

missoura red necks bounce

**Hitcher** · 19th May 2009, 16:27

Originally Posted by The Stranger

This is why it is compulsory to wear eye protection in California.
But of course helmets are optional.

Not true. California is one of the few helmet-mandatory states in the US of A. At least it was as recently as last August.

**slofox** · 19th May 2009, 16:28

When I first had a bike I had no helmet (wasn't compulsory then).
Me Mum insisted I buy one. She paid. I bought it one morning. That afternoon some loon drove into me across an intersection. I went over the bars and on to the road. On my head. Without the helmet I would have copped a major head injury looking at what happened to the helmet. Mind you, given my crazed loon state, it might not have made that much of a difference to my life anyway...

**The Stranger:Me** · 19th May 2009, 16:44

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Not true. California is one of the few helmet-mandatory states in the US of A. At least it was as recently as last August.

Correct - sorry it was Colorado was mentioned on the American forum, and several other states too when you look at the list.

Still seems kind of dumb to me.
Sure it may prevent an accident, thus mitigating the need for a helmet, but if you got the right to choose brain damage, why not the right to choose impaired vision?

**rachprice** · 19th May 2009, 16:58

I do love head

**Blackshear** · 19th May 2009, 18:13

Originally Posted by rachprice

I do love head

Lol, subtlety, dearest, subtlety.

Also, on my totally fucking fruitless job hunting today...
Bee down jacket but not stung, YUS.
2 bugs hit my visor, one was a pretty big guy. Bumblebee? Sounded like a air rifle shot in my helmet.

And last but not least, some pedestrian did a friendly wave to me, and when confronted in order to inspect whom waved, didn't wanna talk to me