helmetless riders...

[ZooTech]

May god be with you

He is. Makes riding without gear that much easier.

[Skier]

May god be with you

He is. Makes riding without gear that much easier.

Yeah, but He makes things difficult when He doesn't lean into the turn.

[drevil]

I wear a helmet about 75% of the time. Likewise with a jacket. Very rarely will I go without them on the freeway, at night, or in an area that I know has a good population of deer that cross the road. I am not required to wear a helmet at all times and a vast majority of cruiser riders around hear don't. On the other hand, a vast majority of the sportbike riders do. I have never been singled out/criticized by other riders who see me with/without gear. It's never come up. Hey, this is America folks!

[zuzu]

One day I saw a postman lose it on his bike not on duty but he had on a pair of them mail Carrier short pants boy did he bite it and all he did was lay it down in a skid .
I at list have a good pair of blue genes on helps on road rash when you got to lay it down.

[Wrider]

I always wear a full face, a semi-armored textile jacket, and steel-toed workboots (same ones I work in at the factory...). I my opinion, if someone isn't wearing a helmet, alright, who cares? It's their choice, and I wouldn't like it if someone told me I couldn't wear a helmet, so why make them wear one? They still have just as much respect in my eyes. They're a rider, and should be treated as such. Also, just to throw my two cents in, I do owe a great deal of gratitude to helmets. My grandmother was in a low speed wreck about two decades ago, her huband (grandfather in law) was fine, bike was wrecked, and she almost died, without her fullface she would have... She ended up in a coma where the family was called in ASAP to say their goodbyes. She was fortunate and pulled through, but not before having a stroke. She is now fully operational again and is a wonderful woman still, so I definitely owe a debt to the inventor of the full face helmet.
Wrider