The National Highway Transportation Safety Agency (NHTSA) claims that Motorcyclists are against mandatory helmet laws because helmets muss up our hair...or because Motorcyclists don't look "cool" with helmets on. What nonsense!
Does anyone really believe that people disrupt their lives, spending 20 or 30 years of their life and a lot of money fighting mandatory helmet laws for these kinds of reasons? Motorcycling can be dangerous. No rational person is going to do anything to increase their likelihood of injury while riding a motorcycle or while doing anything else, for that matter. Why then is there so much resistance to mandatory helmet laws by the people who are being commanded by Government to wear them?
A fact well known to anyone who rides a motorcycle is that helmets cause accidents and helmets kill Riders.
I have long since lost count of all of the near misses I have had when I couldn't see or hear the car that was about to violate my right of way. Anyone who tells you that motorcycle helmets don't adversely effect your ability to operate a motorcycle has never tried to ride a motorcycle while wearing one. Take this simple test: go to your local motorcycle shop and put on a full face helmet. Lower the facemask, as required by law, and walk around the showroom for 30 seconds and you'll start to see what we mean. Now imagine trying to operate a motorcycle in heavy traffic, in 90 degree heat or in the pouring rain and we think you'll start to get the picture.
Forget about statistics for a second. Common sense says that wearing a helmet makes it orders of magnitude more difficult to operate a motorcycle.
We'll tell you some horror stories about friends who have had their necks broken by the helmets that they were forced to wear another time. Suffice it to say that I am not looking forward to spending what's left of my life in a wheelchair as a result of some Bureaucrat's desire to "save my life".
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