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There was a well known saying, if you have a £5 head get a £5 helmet. Clearly they have such valuable heads they couldn’t find a helmet to match.
And skin grafts - an occupational hazard… 🤕
 
I rode thousands of miles, without a helmet, before it was made compulsory in the UK. A law I still resent. I've ridden in States, in the US, where it is not compulsory, since, and, occasionally, in the UK, without one and, yet, I'm still alive to tell the tale.

I've also,
Smoked, including tobacco.
Drunk, including alcohol.
Sniffed, including snuff.
Ridden/driven, at up to over four times the posted speed limit.

Never seen the need to compel others to live their lives as I do (or, as has been made clear by the behaviour of recent lawmakers, in the UK, apply rules to "them" which don't apply to "us").

Similarly, I have no patience with the ATGATT brigade.
If I let them wear what they want, why can't they afford me the same respect?

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I remember trying to see how fast you could go with no helmet or goggles just to find out if those ton up tales from the sixties were true, so back when you didn't need to wear a helmet in Italy I took my 3C out on the Autostrada and found the answer. You can see sod all above 100 mph and not very much above 80 either and everything that hits you in the face hurts like hell. I suppose that should have been obvious really.
 
pf1 said:
I remember trying to see how fast you could go with no helmet or goggles just to find out if those ton up tales from the sixties were true, so back when you didn't need to wear a helmet in Italy I took my 3C out on the Autostrada and found the answer. You can see sod all above 100 mph and not very much above 80 either and everything that hits you in the face hurts like hell. I suppose that should have been obvious really.
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I tried harder on that one.
Above 125mph started to get a distortion of vision (flattening of the eyeballs?), where a straight line, across the road, began to look 'U' shaped.
Worst part was my cheeks flapping about, stereo slapping me in the face.
Evidence of where safety equipment let's you go faster, which is supposed to be less safe, "Speed Kills" and all that!
 
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Tippie said:
If you need an organ transplant, move to a state with no helmet laws, so they say.
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Having Captained many 'Organ Harvesting Team' flights, over the years, I can confirm that donors are, almost exclusively, helmeted riders.
Non-helmeted riders tend to be DOA. Transplant organs are viable, taken from 'Persistent Vegetative State' patients (heart still beating until removal).
 
The Sock said:
'Those Were The Days, My Friend'
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Yeah Sock, that's the type of comment I thought the picture might generate, 'our glory fear nothing days, not the $5 head, gonna need a skin graft, insurers comments. Sounds like a bunch of old codgers moved in next door next next there will be complaints about loud pipes. Ha Ha Ha
 

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Dave, my comment was meant tongue in cheek. I very much believe in freedom of choice, I objected to helmet and seat belt laws when they were introduced.
However, I do question the sanity of the two riders even if I have a bit of sneaking admiration for the size of their balls.
 
Andy J said:
Dave, my comment was meant tongue in cheek. I very much believe in freedom of choice, I objected to helmet and seat belt laws when they were introduced.
However, I do question the sanity of the two riders even if I have a bit of sneaking admiration for the size of their balls.
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Freedom of choice is for the rich, the poor don't have the means to cover medical costs.
Paul
 
I was picking bits of fabric and grit out of my knee for weeks after sliding down the road whilst only wearing jeans and an over-suit. Didn’t do my mate’s 1200 turbo I had been riding much good either. ☹️☹️
 
It's very odd but I feel more vulnerable the older I get, I used to do test laps around the block in shorts and a T-shirt, but now it's track dacks and a very expensive armoured mesh Kevlar jacket. Probably not too smart the day I was checking the main jet in those shorts and suddenly discovered that had me doing 140ks on the local expressway. What does get my senses reeling and feeling alive are those rare rides when camping at race tracks to the toilet block helmetless, it brings back floods of past memories from years back of doing similar stuff.
 
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