Am I a Poser??

I expected flak from posting my personal preference to not wear a helmet, I have to wear a hardhat at work and I swear I hit the top of my head on everything!!!! go home with a sore neck most nights. for more than 20 years before insurance made us wear the stupid things ( stupid because there's no overhead hazard in my work )I never walked into stuff. laugh but I need my peripheral vision. I agree the equipment is for the s4it we don't see comin'
 
Like Canberra said " wear what you want , no skin off anyone else's anything".. but having ended up underneath my Rocket after it bounced off an Armco railing I now wear all the gear all the time .. a very painful lesson was learnt.
 
I for one will not take the chance. I have ALOT of skin to damage.
The more skin you have the more painful it can be!!!!!!
That's my theory anyway

Plus I'm just TOO pretty!!!!! Yeah---------PRETTY FAT AND UGLY
 

Now everyone knows that is not true I would never let my bike go 100miles without washing or polishing it.
That said I do wear a good full face helmet but at times I do lack on the other gear
 
scot in exile said:
Now everyone knows that is not true I would never let my bike go 100miles without washing or polishing it.
That said I do wear a good full face helmet but at times I do lack on the other gear
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I knew that would get you to talk you got to keep them clean haha and I like my tassels on my bike but love them on the nipples better when looking at them
 

That's a great of illogical rationalization, SDCC.

In my nearly 50 years of riding motorcycles I have come to learn a thing or two, some providing much harder lessons than others:

Accidents are unpredictable.

You can break or severely injure any part of your body and still maintain quality of life with a functional brain. The converse is absolutely impossible.

Generally speaking the style helmet a motorcyclist chooses to wear is directly proportional to that which they possess worthy of protection.

Make your own choices, but be certain that you fully understand and accept the consequences which may follow them! BTW, they don't just affect you, but your friends and family, too!
 
Somebody once asked me how much my Icon helmet cost.
I said $400.00 bucks, he said that much!

I said.. How much is Your head worth?.......,
 
TriumPhil said:
That's a great of illogical rationalization, SDCC.
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I do wear a helmet... although I'm sure most would agree there's not much to protect there.

Still don't see how my argument is illogical... if you wanted to be truly safe, and protect that noodle of yours, you wouldn't ride. An earlier post mentioned bubble-wrap, and that's exactly how we all could live - wrapped in some sort of insulation and staying in our comfy little houses for the rest of our lives.

Everyone on this forum has made the decision to take some risks... leave the womb, and live a little. So... now that we've established that we are taking some unnecessary risks, it's just a matter of determining what "risk/reward" compromises we will make in life.

All argument aside: How do I get over the discomfort and claustrophobia I feel every time I put on a full face helmet? I could be swayed to take more precautions, but I ride because I enjoy it... if I stop enjoying it then... (I don't even want to say it).

RKTNMYPKT said:
Somebody once asked me how much my Icon helmet cost.
I said $400.00 bucks, he said that much!

I said.. How much is Your head worth?.......,
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I've never paid for head... so I can't say
 

We just had a bike event in our town. I saw some bikes there with a long leather rope hanging from the handlebars. My friend from California knew what they were. They have a quick disconnect on the handlebar end. The rope has a weight on the end. The theory is if a cager does something stupid you whip off your leather rope and smack their windshield with the weighted end. I'm thinking smacking the wrong guys windshield could be a very costly mistake.
 
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