I believe It should be manditory to have all riders wear head gear "."

If I or any of us are in a vehicle and are involved in an accident with a motorcyclist and they expire from injuries sustained in the accident how will you deal with it.

I have been a fire fighter for 30 years in a small city, I do no EMS can't deal with it. I was involved in 2 rescues from fire seans that the person did not survive took months, to sleep again and years to forget it. I watched an 8 year old girl get hit by a suv. If you only knew what it was like to feel the pulse disapear while you are try to help, and then bury because she was a friends daughter every august 18 has never been the same for 10 years.

Please don't put me or any one else through theese emotions they suck, and don,t hide behind the motcho antique ideology that the freedom fealing is amplified. Its not been there done that got the tee shirt and scars to prove it.

My Opinion
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Just what we need...BOS......Barack Obama Syndrome....I know better than you 
Thanks for fightin them fires 

Sorry Mike, I misunderstood what you said in the message.

Thepup states that he has read helmets olny help in accidents below 30-35 miles and hour. When figuring out the kinetics of trauma, when it comes to both blunt force and penitrating trauma the formula that is used is Mass x Velocity squared.

So a 5 pound head hitting the pavement at 20mph would be figured out as 5 x 20 squared. SO the mass involved in trauma isnt as important as velocity. So in therory your helmet would be more important at higher speeds, IF the head was our only point of concern.

Outside of motocross I have actually worked very few motorcycle accidents where I could point to a helmet and state " that saved your life " and the ones whre I could were YOUNGER riders. And they didnt involve another vehicle most of the time.

Now if people would push proper clothing as much as they push helmets...... There is where a huge difference could be made. Here in Michigan as long as your wearing a helmet they dont care if your in shorts and flip flops

I, too, am a firm believer in choice. That being said, my choice is to wear my protective gear because I like all my skin where it is and I love what brains I have that survived my teenage years. And those teenage years taught me that it is just as brutal getting denim picked out of your arse as gravel!