This Sucks

[TriumPhil]

And cage drivers without seat belts, bicyclists without helmets and any other activity that could result in harm greater than your ability to pay.

Life and health insurance policies have rated (applied higher premiums) on policyholders who are smokers for decades, Scott. Insure a car without seatbelts or airbags and, yep, you'll pay more than for vehicles that have them. Bicycle insurance, well I'm not familiar with that - it must be a Looeasyanna thang!

 

[EasTexRIII]

If we're required to buckle our seatbelt in our cages.........
Y dont we have seatbelts on our scootahz????????

 

[breeze]

If we're required to buckle our seatbelt in our cages.........
Y dont we have seatbelts on our scootahz????????

or in school buses?

 

[EasTexRIII]

Or on our beaver bustin pickle weasles ??
Sorry folks i'm pullin a "Sonny"... 300 miles today & now relaxin with my alotment (did I spell it right?) of agave

 

[Bedifferent]

Laws aside, I just don't understand how someone can ride where bugs are in the air, and rocks thrown up by vehicles ahead, and not wear a helmet. The crash protection is nice too, but the helmet reminds me nearly every time I ride that I need it anyway, with every tick on the face shield and bit of goo I have to deal with when I stop.

You make a good point. When the helmet law was thrown out here in Michigan (as it should have been) I took my helmet off and went for a ride just for the fun of it. It was a short trip, as I had forgotten just how uncomfortable it is to ride without a helmet. Sand, wind noise, bugs, stones, etc. It all came flooding back. I believe in choice, but I never go anywhere (except maybe around the block) without my helmet on. It's not as much about safety for me as it is about my comfort.

 

[GPMAZ]

I bought a new Arai several years ago. A $600+ expense, but a very comfortable helmet on my odd shaped head. First ride out, running 70+ on a two lane road through the Indian reservation I see a very large bird out of the corner of my eye. Instant thought was, he'll pull up. He almost did. I had a stiff neck for a week and a nice scratch on my brand new Arai.

 

[IMFASTTOO]

So what y'all are saying is that anything unsafe should have a mechanical means to stop me from hurting myself? I should always wear my steeltoe boots in my house because your neighbor's uncle's 3rd cousin twice removed, bumped his little toe on and end table in 1897 and got gangrene and had to have it amputated. Why don't we just regulate all vehicles so they won't go over 40 mph either?

YES antiwheely for u bad boy

 

[IMFASTTOO]

If we're required to buckle our seatbelt in our cages.........
Y dont we have seatbelts on our scootahz????????

GOOD IDEA

 

[grampi]

I cannot understand the will of the people on here to give up freedoms that were fought to obtain. Some of you think helmet laws are a good thing. If someone crashes without a helmet it can have tragic consequences, but that person made the decision. Not the government making it for him. There are already laws that a person is to have insurance. (I personally disagree with)
No cell use in vehicles? Really? What about people whose job is dependent on phone calls. The phone is not the distraction during a conversation. The act of conversing causes distraction. By this logic shouldn't all talking be disallowed. No phones, radios (police, fire etc.) Or even passengers should be allowed. There is a point of ridiculousness in attempting to keep everyone completely safe. If you are so worried about your safety stay off motorcycles.
I personally think the government has too big a role in our lives as it is and do not wish to give them any more power. I have a Huge problem with everyone willing to give up freedoms that were so hard won.

What about the right to safe roads? Don't we as licensed motorists have the right to safe roads, or are the rights for people to use cell phones while they're driving more important? Your right to do anything ends when it endangers others...

 

[Steel]

YES antiwheely for u bad boy

Wait! What? Oh hell no!