Do you wear a helmet or not?

[R. J.]

Helmets are not required in FL, but you have to carry a minimum of $10,000 of insurance. If not you are DOA/SOL. I ride 95% of the time with a Helmet. That other 5% does bother me. Stats shows that you are more likely to get in a accident within 2 1/2 miles of your home. Only because you spend more time in that area than anywhere else. It cracks me up when the Harley brothers who ride Harley s say that a Helmet impairs there vision & hearing. The only thing that impairs them is there loud disturbing pipes with all that shaking going on & all the bars they stop when they ride. The one got rear ended after coming out of a bar after making a U turn on the top of a blind hill. When they pull out they ride so slow that I always have that fear of getting plowed into. So I pretty much do not ride with them. They are very boring to ride with anyway.

 

[wrench]

In N.C. you must wear a helmet and eye protection. I wear a full face on the ZL. I wear a outlaw shorty when i ride the Vulcan 88 or the Voyager.

 

[C.Tutt]

C Tut.....do you know Gary Busey?

I know OF Gary Busey...and actually I've met one of his brothers at a MMA gym in Texas. Why do you ask scooby? By chance do you jest at not wearing a helmet can result in a Busey type behavior ?

 

[C.Tutt]

Oh noees! Does my profile pic look like Gary Busey lol

 

[HilbillyRokstar]

Lord I hope not...that guy is all jacked up! It is laying sideways...kinda like Busey after he head butted the ground...

 

[R. J.]

I wear a helmet 95% of the time. I wear a full face 90% of the time.

 

[zl900_moab]

In the Land of 10,000 Lakes, helmets are NOT compulsory if you are a licensed rider, however, if you have a permit, there are restrictions 1 of which is, must wear a helmet...having said that boring crap, I wear a flat black open faced squash bucket occasionally, wouldn't want to deprive the world of my natural...ahem...beauty.

moab...

 

[madmanncr500]

This guy DID NOT wear one......and he IS paying the price for it......
talked to him last weekend at the hd event!!!

 

[1 red zl9]

years ago maryland didn't have a helmet law so needless to say i was young and felt indestructable and very rarely wore one. then they changed the law and all i wore was a full face but in the summer it was just to hot, now its a half helmet and im so use to it now would probaly feel funny not having it on. kinda wish they would leave it up to the rider but feel i would go back to not wearing it for short rides but know that bad things can happen on those short ones too! i do miss the feeling of the air going thru what little hair i have left on a hot summer day.

 

[R. J.]

Some people that I know do not wear helmets. They say what happens is going to happen & it was meant to happen & you have no control over it. I'm sorry they feel that way. You would think after a person went through a horrible bike accident that they would change there mind. When I went to my friends home & seen him & his girl in bed with really bad scrapes & cuts on there heads & face. Black & blue like someone beat them with base ball bats that they would change there mind about wearing helmets. I could hardly stand to look at them. He just got a new Harley because his was totaled. They still ride with no helmets.

 

[WillyD]

90% of the time I do not wear one...Ocassional half helmet and when it gets cold a full face..

 

[HilbillyRokstar]

90% of the time I do not wear one...Ocassional half helmet and when it gets cold a full face..

You're rollin' like a young man...my friend. That was me.. in my 20s and 30s.. Have fun...and BE CAREFUL!!!!

 

[salamander]

Oh noees! Does my profile pic look like Gary Busey lol

Actually, you kinda look like Woody Harrelson.

 

[garysciascia]

fullface, always,never leave home without it

 

[hmt81]

Fullface 90% of the time, just bought a HJC IS-2 for really hot weather with built in visor. the fullface is the HJC Symax 2

 

[Hamish]

Here in the Land of All Things Regulated, Helmets are compulsory. Big fines for not wearing one. We even have to wear one on a Bicycle. If you live in Queensland. Ride a Harley and have Tattoo's, you're a contender for a Jail Term.Really lost the plot here.

I have on the odd occasion ridden off without the Helmet but after a while I feel something is different and go back to get it.
Damn....Old age. At least i still remember where I live.

 

[mudrunner88]

Don't leave the house without mine, even wear 'em in the woods when I'm out wheeling.

 

[GGabrielK]

Always. I've seen too many guys with road rash on their face. Not a good look. I wear leather and gloves/boots as well. My brother went down on the expressway in shorts and a tee shirt. Scar less healing works but holy **** is it painful.

My brother was soaked in a salt water jacuzzi every three days and had over 40% of his body scrubbed down. Even on morphine he'd pass put from the pain. Better to be hot and sweaty than going though that torture.

 

[kvalheim]

Hate them but they will save you.

 

[R. J.]

I have to many helmets. They range from $500 down to $70. Of course the Shoei being the most expensive & the Built being the least expensive. I rode today with a few friends. My go to helmet is the digital camo IICON which was $275.