Why you shouldn't wear a helmet

[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.

[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"

[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!



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!



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.