helmet anyone?

VENICE BOY · #21 (**permalink**) 05-18-2008, 10:36 AM

I'm in the "no helmet" camp... I wear a baseball cap & glasses for the sun... But I wear a little "skid lid" when riding my Harley.

Chris wears a bicycle helmet, (but I've seen him without it a couple of times).

"Dog Town Mike" who owns the Dyno rat rod that I posted a pic of... He wears a "Harley skid lid". (It totally matches the look of the bike!)

**nogoodnic** · #22 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 11:02 PM

I have a non DOT shorty helmet that I wear on long rides but I find that my head gets really hot with it. When just bumping around town I very rarely wear my helmet but always wear eye protection...Kelly

justbill · #23 (**permalink**) 05-25-2008, 12:55 PM

I wear a dot half-shell
not many brain cells still working, so I need to protect them

(and I don't want to be a brain-dead burden to my daughter and her family...who I live with)
I have found that after wearing it for a while, I feel naked without it...even here in the desert

MotorbikeMike · #24 (**permalink**) 05-25-2008, 01:08 PM

Hey Dudes, if I don't reccomend Helmets (DOT shortys) all the time, and one of my customers becomes Brain-Dead, or Really Dead just where in the heck am I? Almost all of my customers become kinda friends, and many become friends. How many of you guys need dead friends?

Even amoung the customers I might not like, consider this, would Harley Davidson kill thier own customers? (and Daymn do they make money, and sometimes friends)

Wear a DOT shorty, stay alive, to nogoodnick, I have one, even tho black, has little vents you open to cool your head!!! I wear it when it's too hot for me here, and it gets over 100 a lot!

Am I being selfish..........well if I am, please join me in this, you cannot have a beer and talk about old times to a dead friend.

CA riders, IT'S THE LAW, don't screw it up for everyone by drawing attention to yourself in a negative way.

I have never known one guy in my whole life that enjoyed riding dead!

Ride Straight,

Mike

**nogoodnic** · #25 (**permalink**) 05-25-2008, 09:37 PM

I hear ya Mike and agree 100%. I do strongly reccomend helmets to my customers, now I just need to practice what I preach

...Kelly

MotorbikeMike · #26 (**permalink**) 05-25-2008, 10:45 PM

NoGoodnic, am I to suspect that dead customers are no good for your business also?

And for those non-mechanical customers, conversely, that your demise might leave a lot of dead bikes laying around Michigan?

as always amigo,
Mike

**nogoodnic** · #27 (**permalink**) 05-25-2008, 10:52 PM

You are correct sir. I have no argument outside of I'm lazy and enjoy the wind in my hair...Kelly

**Bikeguy Joe** · #28 (**permalink**) 05-26-2008, 05:52 AM

Dead customers spend no cash, but they don't come back on warranty claims either...

Dead friends don't let other dead friends ride helmetless, they also don't drink all your beer or borrow tools thier wives won't let them buy.

Let those who ride decide.

**fairracing31** · #29 (**permalink**) 05-30-2008, 04:56 PM

Maybe this will get some of you to think about wearing a helmet.

Cyclist recovering from second hit-and-run :: WRAL.com

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**Bikeguy Joe** · #30 (**permalink**) 05-30-2008, 05:35 PM

The guy in the first one broke his hip, don't think a helmet would have helped much.
The second one needed whole body armor. If you got a drunk ass piece of **** behind the wheel a helmet isn't much help either.

But I hear you, everybody should wear one all the time, so when some idiot rams you at 60 mph with a cell phone in one hand and a Budweiser in the other they can at least have an open casket funeral for you.