[PowderMonkey]

I rode for many years in the single most dangerous form of riding: commuter traffic in and out of Washington, D.C. 80 miles per day. Year round. D.C. was Nr. 2 in the nation for motorcycle fatalities. The Nr. 1 cause of death was a car turning left across your path in an intersection. The use of a brain bucket makes the difference between a get up and dust off, or a trip to emergency room. I wore full face. The times I dropped, I was traveling under 25 mph. When the human body slaps the asphalt, it's like a cracking whip, and your head's the tip lashing the payment last with surprising force. Nothing you can do to stop it. My old brain bucket (now retired) bears the scars of impacts that would have killed me in those low-speed, minor accidents.

[muawiyah]

Very true. In heavy slow moving traffic when a car turns left in front of your bike the car driver has no other choice than to continue the turn ~ that traffic is sure not going to let him back in.

Could be 10 MPH and you still go down ~ or slam into a car and go over.

I know a lady in such traffic in Los Angeles and all at once a head came through the green vaned barricades down the middle of the freeway. The body stayed on the bike on the other side.

He wasn't smiling as his still twitching face landed on her windshield.

This was all slow speed stuff.

[Jonty30]

About the only unavoidable accident, for the motorcyclist, is the car turning into their lane. Every other accident with another vehicle should not happen.

[WOBBLY BOB]

A helmet save my life when I was 17. Here in MN we don’t have helmet laws (yet), but I wear one probably better than 50% of the time.

My last crash was 5 years ago, no helmet 20 MPH.Cordura works.

I don’t like being told what to do including what to eat,smoke,etc.