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| Disagree | 19% | 218 votes | Total: 1133 votes | |
| Agree | 81% | 915 votes |
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Wearing a helmet may increase safety but it's like wearing a spacesuit to the beach. Statistically, far more of us suffer head injuries falling down than crashing a motorcycle....read more
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by Jason Martin
This represents a larger question of individual rights to choose. Should people be entitled to choose their own way of life and styles of living? This is basically what is at ...read more
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I believe that laws are important and necessary to maintain quality of life and keep us safe. But those laws should be limited to keeping individuals safe from harm by the actio...read more
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Motorcyclists should Always Wear Helmets I have been a motorcycle rider since the mid eighties. I have logged many miles both on and off road. I always wear a helmet any ti...read more
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I don't know if it has to do with me being a woman, but when I tell someone that I drive a motorcycle, often times the first question they ask me is if I wear a helmet. I alway...read more
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This discussion is a very difficult one for me to determine whether I am for, or against, the statement that every motorcycle rider should wear a helmet. For all intents and pur...read more
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You can jump on the internet and find all kinds of so called facts and statistics on accidents involving motorcycle riders. Most do not indicate if the rider had a helmet on or ...read more
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by Tom Koecke
Personally, I wore my helmet when it was not required by law. However, that is my principle. Perhaps I did so to please my mother, or maybe it made me feel safer, like a securit...read more
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I'm loosely connected to an insurance company that provides coverage for motorcycles. Naturally, everybody considering policies is looking to save money; and you'd think wearing...read more
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Yes, motorcyclists should wear helmets, but I would frame this question: should motorcyclists be required to always wear helmets? While I believe anyone who likes their brain an...read more
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I recently moved from Massachusetts, where motorcyclists must where a helmet or face the consequences, to Arizona, where only minors must wear helmets. At first this seemed sill...read more
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FREEDOM! This country was founded on freedom. If so and so wants to feel the wind in their hair, have the soothing sensation of wind blowing past their ears, or just simply wa...read more
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Marlon Brando caught the breeze with just leather newsboy cap on his head. He was a wild one and aren't all cyclists wild at heart whether they ride a Harley or a Vespa? I com...read more
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Accidents will happen. You may dump your bike, get hit by a car, lose control or it might just blow up. Let me pose another question: Should drivers of all motorized vehicles ...read more
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by Alice Paxton
This is my first time writing here, and I am going to do so in very casual manner. I could go into how I would like to just gently break my cherry in posting, but, I will not. ...read more
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There has been a huge to do about helmets and the wearing of them for awhile now. On one hand you have those who see the benefits of protecting their heads in the case of a cras...read more
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I have to disagree. Although it is the law and thus we have to abide by it, sometimes I wonder who is thinking of this. I've known quite a few motorcyclist who have wrecked and ...read more
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Motorcyclists should use their own judgment as to whether or not a helmet should be worn, just like bicyclists, skateboarders, skiers, snowboarders, mountain climbers, water ski...read more
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Speaking as a mother who recently lost her oldest son in a motorcycle accident due to multiple blunt head trauma I can honestly say that motorcyclist should NOT be required to w...read more
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by Jimmy Ettele
Should they? I'm not a doctor, but the effects of paved street on the cranium of a derailed motorcyclist is bound to have major consequences for the brain. So should motorcycli...read more
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by Karon Brandt
My husband and I have traveled over 110,000 miles together on motorcycles in 20 years. We always wear our helmets. Why? Because we feel an obligation to our families. Of course,...read more
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It's what America is all about: freedom and individual choice. Shouldn't motorcyclists, then, have the choice of wearing a helmet or not wearing one? Like so many choices humans...read more
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My husband and I both ride motorcycles. It's loads of fun, but the would-be motorcyclist should know that while riding can be exhilarating, it can also be deadly. Whenever we ...read more
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I am writing from the UK, where it is illegal to ride a motorcycle without a helmet. There is a reason for this: if you crash and your head hits the ground at 60 miles an hour, ...read more
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by David Duncan
At least once a week, I witness someone riding a motorcycle without a helmet. Now, a rider truly takes his or her own life in their hands every time they strap a leg over their...read more
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The question is whether motorcyclists should wear helmets, not whether there should be helmet laws. It's okay to "agree" that riders should wear helmets and still "disagree" th...read more
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Nobody likes the "S" word....it's insulting, demeaning, and down right insensitive. But, what do you think those cops and paramedics are thinking when they're called to a survi...read more
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by R.L. Deeter
In the state of Pennsylvania wearing a seatbelt is a law. If you are pulled over for any reason and you do not have a seatbelt on you're charged a fine that starts at ten dolla...read more
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A motorcycle helmet is the equivalent of the car's seat belt. Both are essential and both should be required by law in order to lessen injuries should an accident occur. Motor...read more
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In 1972 (I think) it became a legal requirement in New Zealand for motorcycle and scooter riders and passengers to wear approved helmets. Exemptions were granted, usually for mi...read more
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Helmets are used by motorcyclists to protect one of their most important body parts, the head, within which resides the most important organ within the human body, the brain. It...read more
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by Phil Dean
Of course a motorcyclist should always wear a helmet! Saying they shouldn't is plain ignorance and the person obviously has no experience of crashes involving their head. A '...read more
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There is only one phrase to describe a motorcyclist that does not wear a helmet and that is called "natural selection." Natural selection is the evolutionary concept that over ...read more
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The question of whether motorcyclists should wear a helmet, or not, has been going on for as long as their have been motorcycles. I can imagine the first guy to bring his shiny ...read more
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Wear your seat belt, don't run around the pool, for goodness sakes stop playing with matches. All very simple, recommendations if you will, that help curb some pretty regretful ...read more
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Physics is a strange science. It's full of funny laws. Take for instance one of the laws of motion. A body in motion tends to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted upo...read more
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by Todd Pheifer
We are very big into freedom in this country. People are allowed to say certain things, do certain things, and think just about anything they want. There are some that would l...read more
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by Kev Hughes
I wholeheartedly agree that all motorcyclists should wear helmets, not only wear them but also pay as much as they can afford to buy one. My opinion comes from twenty-two y...read more
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Should Motorcyclists Always Wear A Helmet? Absolutely!: Even though I was raised in the 60's and 70's, I have to agree with the law in this matter. Now, no one is into pers...read more
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Should motorcyclists always wear helmets? As a pioneer in the motocross scene, as a woman biker in the early seventies, we never straddled our bike without putting on our lid, m...read more
