Wear the stupid helmet !!!!

[turnkey4099]

Was the bike OK?



Sorry, couldn't resist. . I've hit two cars turning left in front of me. Didn't get inured fortunately. Dented their doors in pretty good, though. Also got knocked over in slow motion by an old guy at a stop light trying to squeeze between a car in the left turn lane and me in the straight lane. He almost smeared me into the car to my right. Yikes.

My first acident on a bike was the day I bought a little Honda 150. Dealer faced a 4 lane street, 1/2 block down was a stop light for anoth 4 lane. I was in curb lane turning right. light red, car on my left. Light turns green, car on left turns right INTO TO MY LANE. He wore a boot print on his passenger side door. I didnt't go down but it was close.

 

[MossRoad]

Yikes!

About a week or two after I got my first bike, a Yamaha DT250 enduro, I was sitting in front of the parks department office picking up my lifeguard paycheck. Some of the other guards were there, standing around admiring my new to me bike. I was reving the engine quit a bit, and low and behold, I let go of the clutch. It was in gear! Bike pulled a nice wheely, I hung on as my arms got longer and the bike pulled away from me. My belly went flat on the seat and my thighs went over the rear turn signals. I hung on for dear life, pulling myself up to the point of sitting and then saw the side of a building coming right at me, as by then, the street makes a sharp right turn. I managed to jump up towards the gas tank, get my hand off the throttle, get the front wheel on the ground and stab the bars to the right, making a very nice turn down the street..... and I kept on going. Never looked back. Drove home and checked my shorts.

The next day at the beach, some of the guards said they were impressed by my wheelie skills. I thought I was gonna die! :laughing:

 

[newbury]

<snip>I was reving the engine quit a bit, and low and behold, I let go of the clutch. It was in gear! Bike pulled a nice wheely, I hung on as my arms got longer and the bike pulled away from me. My belly went flat on the seat and my thighs went over the rear turn signals. I hung on for dear life, pulling myself up to the point of sitting<snip>

I did about the same thing, pulling a fantastic wheelie but not meaning to. Definitely laundry time.

Just another raw biker.

 

[JasperFrank]

Friend got a new Quad about 4 years ago. He rode bikes for many years but this was his first Quad. Last time I saw him, He was showing me videos of himself riding through the woods. It was a fast Quad and he liked to ride fast without a helmet. I suggested that he take it easy till he got use to it, cause Quads handle differently than motorcycles, and he shrugged my comment off. Last thing I said to him was to at least wear a helmet if he was going to run through the woods fast on narrow trails. 2 weeks later he hit a tree with out a helmet on.

 

[paulfun9]

We attended a meeting yesterday about preparing for care of an older person with Dementia or Alzheimer's. The lawyer was a specialist in elder law in Kentucky. She did an excellent job of presenting the material until she got to the part about Medical Surrogates. Her voice broke and she got a little emotional telling how she represents several young men who were in motorcycle accidents without helmets. It was in the latter part of her talk and the change in tone of her voice woke everybody up. She has four clients who, "show some brain stem activity" but are otherwise in a vegetative state. None of their mothers can bring themselves to "pull the plug" on their children. The one she has represented the longest has been on life support for more than six years. All were injured in helmetless motorcycle accidents.

There is a reason why nurses call motorcycle riders without helmets, "organ donors".

Her take on the situation was that all helmetless riders should be required to have a Living Will, a DNR document, and have the organ donor box checked on their license.

I quit riding years ago after a close call caused by a rather large dog. Don't flame me on this, I am just posting what somebody with MUCH experience in the issue had to say.

RSKY

I wonder what you would think of the things I would demand you do once or if I was able to look into your life and determine what you do or have done to shorten or endanger you life in any way.

Demanding I become an organ donor? Get a life and pay attention to what you and your family does not me and my family. If I die at the roadside it won稚 cost you a freaking cent, so be quiet and min d your own buisness and life not mine.



P.S
I have a living will, designated decision maker and wear a medical bracelet that says I am not to be flown!
You also won稚 get any of my organs as I am not, never have been and won稚 be an organ donor ever.

 

[RSKY]

I wonder what you would think of the things I would demand you do once or if I was able to look into your life and determine what you do or have done to shorten or endanger you life in any way.

Demanding I become an organ donor? Get a life and pay attention to what you and your family does not me and my family. If I die at the roadside it won稚 cost you a freaking cent, so be quiet and min d your own buisness and life not mine.



P.S
I have a living will, designated decision maker and wear a medical bracelet that says I am not to be flown!
You also won稚 get any of my organs as I am not, never have been and won稚 be an organ donor ever.

As I said in my original post, "Don't flame me on this. I am just posting what somebody with MUCH experience in the issue had to say." So you can just kiss me where the sun doesn't shine.

And one of the things the lady pointed out makes a lie out of part of you post. "If I die at the roadside it won稚 cost you a freaking cent, so be quiet and min d your own buisness and life not mine." Each of the men who are "living", if you can call it that, were on Medicare and so the state was paying for it. In other words the taxpayers. So if some idiot like you refuses to wear a helmet and ends up brain dead on a ventilator the rest of us here will be paying for it. And so will your family for years.

RSKY

 

[shooterdon]

Having a close friend or family member killed, maimed, or seriously injured affects most people...some...not so much.

 

[Alan W.]

As I said in my original post, "Don't flame me on this. I am just posting what somebody with MUCH experience in the issue had to say." So you can just kiss me where the sun doesn't shine.

And one of the things the lady pointed out makes a lie out of part of you post. "If I die at the roadside it won稚 cost you a freaking cent, so be quiet and min d your own buisness and life not mine." Each of the men who are "living", if you can call it that, were on Medicare and so the state was paying for it. In other words the taxpayers. So if some idiot like you refuses to wear a helmet and ends up brain dead on a ventilator the rest of us here will be paying for it. And so will your family for years.

RSKY

My thoughts exactly. Any activity that proper gear is not used is an accident waiting to happen and other people do pay emotionally and or financially.

 

[Sigarms]

P.S
I have a living will, designated decision maker and wear a medical bracelet that says I am not to be flown!
You also won稚 get any of my organs as I am not, never have been and won稚 be an organ donor ever.

It's a shame you live your life and death in fear for whatever reason.

Perhaps if you had a family member saved by someone else donating a body part you may feel different.

Ultimate act of selflessness in death IMO is your feeling of not giving an organ if it can be used.

Personally don't care what you do, kind of feel sorry for you.

 

[JasperFrank]

Paul, I'm still on the friends facebook list for my friend that got killed not wearing a helmet- though it isn't entirely settled that he broke his neck one way or the other, or blunt force trauma to the head. There are many on going facebook profiles of dead people. I got to see all the sadness, vicariously, that this caused to his family and other friends, even four years out: His page is still active. I think in some ways your life isn't your own, to be reckless with once you get older and have family and responsibilities. My friend Don, the one that was killed, sometimes would in deep conversation, as in after a few more beers, lamented that he didn't know how to grow up even though he was in his late 40's or so.