Friend down.. Pls. wear your helmets!!

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I like riding without a helmet just as much as the next guy but only when crusing between 25-35 mph, which still doesn't make it right. But any other time, I'm strapped in my helmet and wouldn't have any other way.

I feel for the young lad that has gone down, but his decision to cruise over 100 mph with no helmet on is just plain stupid.

I wish him all the luck in his recovery.

Jok
 
I received a call last night informing me that an aquaintance made through riding went down Sat. on his blue/silver Busa. Nice guy and so were the others he normally rode with, but they did not wear helmets. They are younger, which probably has nothing to do with it but it is just an observation. (ages 25-30)
130 mph off a turn--flipped along like a rag doll with the bike tumbling with him. (He was only 150 lbs)

A miracle that no bones were broken, but fractured his skull. The paramedics brought him back to life and he is in the ICU a county away now. I intend to visit or at least call.

The main group I ride with did mention to them that you should wear your helmets, but you know how that goes sometimes.

Please wear your helmets it can save your *** !! Your gear too.
It shouldn't take something like this to reinforce the importance of wearing a helmet, but for some it may make the difference.
Bob
 
I agree Bob. About the ONLY time I am ever on a bike without a helmet is when cruising through the paddock area at the track. I would never hit the street without one. I realize it's your head, but think of all the other people affected if something happens.
 
It's always sad to hear of a fellow rider going down. It's times like this that I'm glad it's Law in Canada to wear a helmet. Hope he recovers from this.
 
WHEN THIS KID DECIDES TO GET BACK ON TWO WHEELS,I HAVE A BLUE SHOEI WITH HIS NAME ON IT.IM NOT A DOC. BUT HEAD INJURIES ARE HARD TO FIX.
 
Sorry to hear about our brother. I agree abut wearing a helmet. Mine is like my american express....I don't leave home without it. We recently had the Helmet Law repealed in KY. and I have always been for the NO HELMET LAW crowd, but I NEVER ride without one. I just don't like "big brother" telling me what to do. Know what I mean?
 
Don't like Helmet Laws,but I do wear my Helmet,have to in California but if the law is repealed I'll still wear my helmet,keeps the bee's,bugs,rain,hail,rocks thrown from car and truck tires from slaming into my head.Ride safe you all
 
Use an good Helmet also, not the cheap
plastic ones that will act like an ping-pong
ball (with your head inside), when you are
sliding away on the high-way.

Note. Plastic helmet also melts down if you
happened to be unconscious lying in the petrol

One guy here in Sweden just get into that situation, and his face was not a good site
afterwards.
Take care and check that the roads are clean, before you speed up.
 
Wow, that sucks...hope he recovers. I find it unnerving anymore to ride without a helmet, plus our state has a helmet law anyway. Getting hit in the forehead by a bigassed bee does not feel good, I don't know how (or why) the Harley guys like not wearing them. Besides, who can deny the coolness of a killer helmet and a tinted/chromed visor. :)
 
I have to agree, how could I not, that helmets can save you from dying or suffering from serious injury. I crashed recently, on a 550 standard no less, going a mindblurring 20 - 25mph because I took the turn wrong. Immediately after going E.V. my face smacked the asphalt and thanks to the full face SHOEI I am not any more facially disfigured after the accident than I was before the accident.

Seriously, helmets work. I don't feel that we should be forced to wear them as an earlier post has stated. But 130mph w/out a helmet? I doubt any professional would consider that a standard practice.
 
Joker and other non helmet guys.. There was a sad thread about 6 month ago about a guy wearing a beenie helmet. He slipped on a grease spot at a 7-11 and went down at 2 yes two mph. He died from a side skull fracture leaving a wife and two kidz. By all accounts he was a nice guy and a good rider too.

There's no shame in wearing the best helmet you can find on the fastest bike on earth.
 
Lyle,that wasn`t Mike was it?I hope your buddy is ok.I always wear full leathers and a full face I think your insane if you dont.Even when riding through Connecticut with all the Harley guys pointing and laughing...I never did really understand,lol
 
My brother smacked the side of a station wagon without a helmet, when he was 17 years old. He was lucky, he only got to spend one night in a hospital. And then, he and his buddy who also rode helmetless, decided BIKES are dangerous!! Stupidity is dangerous. Wear a good helmet.
 
Riding a Busa with no helmet is like Fuking a $2.00 Whore with no rubber,,just plain Stupid,,or any Bike for that matter.
best wishes to your buddy.

161 ®
 
Even if it weren't the law in Canada as Y2Crazy points out, I believe that I would refuse to ride with anyone who didn't have a helmet on.

I'm not very good at administering the Last Rites.
 
Well, so far at least one good thing as come of this.
Ran into the guy who was directly behind him at the dealer on Tues. He purchased a helmet and Kevlar lined leather jacket to match his TLR. Good news. Although it took an extreme message, he heard it and changed. I asked if it was nice to ride at decent speed and not have small bugs, debris, and wind smack you face. He liked it, of course.
I asked what happened and and short version is...he followed two GOOD riders and went beyond his capabilities.
Just because your on the FASTEST BIKE IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN BE THE FASTEST RIDER!
 
Sorry to hear about your friend, hope he recovers completely. I have 2 stories to tell. 1 about helmets the other about jackets. I crashed my ZX-7 in a parking lot doing about 10mph a few years back. I went up a curb and tried to control the bike coming down the other side. The front tucked and threw me forward off the bike. I landed helmet first on the pavement. I was wearing a white Shoei full face and I landed on the chin portion and the pavement took the outside layer off the helmet. Had I not been wearing the lid I would have torn the flesh off my chin down to the bone.

A friend of mine raced his Gixxer 750 at the dragstrip w/out a jacket and went down on the big end. He had to have skin grafted from his leg to his elbow. I talked to him later and he said he was married to his jacket. He learned the hard way. I didn't. I always wear an armored jacket, gloves and my helmet.
 
I figure God only gives each of us some many talents in life and it is our duty to protect them, whatever they are. For those of you that I have met you will understand me when I say I was given the gift of GOOD LOOKS. I really should have been a male model for some gay porno magazine. Therefore I will NEVER ride without a helmet. Not just any helmet but a full face one made by ARAI or other top company.

I am just too damn good looking to take any chances on this issue.

don
roaddog
 
Here in Texas I have a choice as to whether I wear a helmet or not. Most times I do because the ends of the rag doll bang the pavement more than the middle. I'm sorry that the oversight in judgement resulted in an injury, my prayers are with your friend because we all deserve a break in this life.
 
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