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I've always used a helmet not just for safety but for comfort, a day of wind blast or the occasional head on with a big bug or running into a rain shower can all prove to be very uncomfortable.
In fact in my 40 years of riding i've never heard a convincing argument for driving without a helmet.
Supposedly the "wind-in-your-hair" feeling is quite nice... It's not worth the risk to me personally; I think being on a bike is good enough.
I know what the other poster means by it looking fake though. Did someone REALLY slide that far with their head in ONE position? A grind like that doesn't happen instantaneously... It seems like it must have been steady with a weight on top of it for it to end up like that.
In fact in my 40 years of riding i've never heard a convincing argument for driving without a helmet.
FREEEEEEDOM!!!!
But seriously. Some years ago I insisted on giving a riding buddy one of my old full-face modular helmets to replace his 3/4 lid. He made a little noise about it but took it anyway. Literally 2 days later he went down on his bike at speed, in traffic. Slid a good distance. He showed me the helmet later and it had scrapes all down the front & side. Cheaper than reconstructive surgery.
I'd imagine sliding on concrete would look like someone took a grinder to whatever was sliding across the rough, abrasive like, grinding surface.
The surface looks to uniform though. In all of the crashes in which I've slid across the pavement my helmet had light damage from glancing blows in a few different areas. Your head tends to sort of skip across the pavement if it even touches the ground at all. I've also picked up many a downed rider while corner working at trackdays and club races and have never seen a helmet damaged with such an even distribution and in a single location like that.
The only possible way that damage such as this could have occurred is if the riders head had somehow been pinned beneath a large heavy object while sliding. You could argue that his head got pinned beneath his own bike but this usually does not happen in a crash because the rider and bike tend to separate and slide at different speeds across the ground.
The picture Last1out posted looks much more realistic.
I've ridden with and without a helmet. However as I ride sport bikes I usually go with a helmet. However, people are far too invested in what other people's choices are. If someone wants to ride without any gear then fine by me. I couldn't careless. I have a life.
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