Spent 15 min directing traffic last night....

[Orpheus]

Originally Posted by Easy Rider

Both rather interesting analogies but in both cases, the "helmet" is there to "protect" you from something that is the "object of the game"! :biggrin:

I believe helmets are a good thing but I don't think it is government's place to mandate personal safety. That's pretty much it for me.

I have been extremely lucky in my 40 years of riding but I don't think it is all luck. I've had only ONE bike accident and that was in a parking lot at 3 mph, 38 years ago. Only one cage crash too and that was 43 years ago. Serious defensive driving is the key. To a large extent, one makes their own "luck".

So......I ride with a brain bucket about half the time. Always on the highway and always in unfamiliar territory. Puttering around town, mostly not. Is that a bad choice? Maybe but it is neither uninformed nor irrational and despite the hype some would throw around, it affects nobody but ME.

I agree 100%. I got the impression earlier that you were advocating a kind of "it's my opinion, so you can't tell me I'm wrong" kind of thing. If I lived in a small town where I didn't have to worry about half a million strangers sharing three-lane roads with me, I'd probably do the same. I still ride on the small side roads without a helmet, but it's usually just to the corner store and back (less than 1/2 mile). It's all about accepting risk, and that's what I'm willing to accept.