[magellan]

Michigan Senate repeals helmet law, but makes the choice of not wearing one expensive | MLive.com

[magellan]

Shouldn't it be up to the insurance companies as to how much medical coverage motorcycle riders should carry? What happened to cutting through all the regulatory BS Snyder?

[us66]

I hope there will be lesser penalties for crashing into one of these Darwin Award nominees, as there should be for hitting an unbelted motorist. Hitting a helmetless motorcyclist should not have to equal an instant manslaughter charge.

[magellan]

Originally Posted by us66

I hope there will be lesser penalties for crashing into one of these Darwin Award nominees, as there should be for hitting an unbelted motorist. Hitting a helmetless motorcyclist should not have to equal an instant manslaughter charge.

Does it now?

[tuebor]

How about this: you can ride without a helmet if you want to, but if you get into an accident, medical personnel will treat you as if you had signed a do-not-resuscitate order and checked the donate-any-organ box on your license. (I hear ER physicians already call motorcycles "donorcycles".)

[Giesela]

With insured helmetless riders out there who's to know which is which? What will the penalty be if stopped helmetless w/out the insurance.

[Trail twister]

The law was passed way back when I was a pup because the claim of medical cost to keep bikers alive and support them when they were a basket of veggies. So today if you carry enough medical insurance do not mind getting pulled over by every cop with a bug in their azz I say go for it. But then I really think most are already brain dead with the dinky pots they call helmits on their heads any way.

Really Ohio and Wisconsin isn't that far awy if you don't want to wear protection.

[us66]

What I was trying to say was that if I hit one of these Darwin Award nominees (I have seen two of them today riding around in Macomb County btw) it's pretty much automatic death for the rider, which means hitting one with my "cage" goes from a civil infraction, should I cause what would have been a fender bender with another "cage," to a much more serious charge as the helmetless rider has a better than 50-50 shot at winning his Darwin Award if I were to hit him. (Short answer: The bumper sticker "Hit a biker, go to jail" offends me a bit, especially the way I see quite a few of them riding.)

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by us66

(Short answer: The bumper sticker "Hit a biker, go to jail" offends me a bit, especially the way I see quite a few of them riding.)

As someone who has ridden a bike from the time I could swing a leg over one, and have had my cycle endorsement from day one on my license 30+ years ago; I 100% agree with you. No helmet laws are stupid and frankly I think if you are on a bike, you need all the protection you can muster, including full leathers... even in the Summer. I don't give a rats ass if my head sweats a bit in a helmet (most of the new ones are quite nice for ventilation by the way) I HAVE slid across the pavement after getting hit by a car that was cornering in my lane, and without a helmet I wouldn't be here today. I shudder every time an Idiot passes me on a bike with no shirt, shorts, flip-flops, and a teeny-tiny half-helmet perched on top of their empty skull.

[Trail twister]

Just because they are legal those tiny pots are not helmets. Helmits are to protect your head and the gray matter thats supposed to be inside it.
Those pots are just pots to curcumvent the law.

A few years ago the wife and I rode to Maine and back during the July 4th week when it was hot running into the 90's. We wear full face helmits (not simpson's but good ones) Neither of us found them unconfortable nor did we sweat in them. with the top air vents and the chin air vents open we had good air flow.

Even on our snomobiles we wear good full face helmits to protect our heads. Funny never heard a snomobiler complain about wearing a helmit either. And they don't wear those pot thingies either.