[muawiyah]

See, you people just don't think about the burden your dead, bloated carcass can become to the rest of us.

BTW, these are PUBLIC ROADS ~ the "control" has already been exercised. You don't like it get PRIVATE ROADS!

[Outlaw Woman]

Well gosh muawiyah, don’t blow a gasket. It’s just a discussion about laws & personal beliefs. It’s unlikely that helmet laws are going to be repealed nationwide.

[OldPossum]

See, you people just don't think about the burden your dead, bloated carcass can become to the rest of us.

If you're not dead you're otherwise hurting. I knew a psychiatrist among whose duties was going to go a large metro hospital every weekend. There he counseled young men (to repeat myself, women on average have better sense than to operate the damned things) who have as a result of a motorcycle accident become paraplegic or quadraplegic how they are going to psychologically adjust to the next 50+ years getting around in a wheelchair or worst of all, lying in some bed.

Those of you so macho on this thread maintaining that you--as contrasted to others--know how to handle a bike, don't laugh. It could happen to you. You've just been lucky.

[Salamander]

Pardon me for intruding upon your hysteria but *our* taxes pay for those “public roads”, too, you know.

[Why do I have a suspicion you might actually be the type who likes to “scare” bikers with your car?]