[docmcb]

Just think of how many accidents would be prevented, and how many lives we'd save, if we forbade ALL bike riding! And why stop there?!? What we need is a nationawide 30 mph speed limit, strictly enforced. That'd save 10oo's of lives.

[spunkets]

We couls always have govm't employees push everyone around in NHTSA approved wheelchairs with crashguards.

[JoeSixPack1]

Great post!

The fingers started pointing before the pixels on this thread had time to organize!

Control freaks will always stop short of styfling themselves while protecting everyone else. The arguements get more entertaining everyday and DOT still hasn't figured out what specs to demand of an approved DOT helmet.

I'm a "98mph-into-and-through-a-brick-wall" survivor. I got enough road rash that day to kill 3 people. I had a helmet on then, but didn't need it except to prevent a ticket. Never even scratched the helmet's paint. Didn't have a shirt on tho. Now I get to brag about all that new young skin I grew back and never ever ride without a shirt, long pants and boots.

I wear a helmet,
sometimes it's on my head, sometimes it's in the saddlebag. :-)

The only reason helmet laws are being rescinded is because the biker groups like ABATE have lobbyists to go after these laws.

No group is currently challenging seatbelt laws.
That's reality. Everything else is SPIN!

[AdA$tra]

What we need is a nationawide 30 mph speed limit, strictly enforced.

I already experience that on the way back to work just now. 21 MPH tops and she slowed down at EACH intersection for about twenty-eight blocks. If they didn't have a veteran's tag I would have lit 'em up and blown around them.