That helmet, and all the rest better to have than not, and like all safety equipment, may not be popular with some, but it's all you have.
Figuring that for the most part in life, if it's your time it's your time, better to live than not, just somehow these things, in my now somewhat biased opinion have a way of expediting that sometimes, I've seen a lot of lives cut off short from these things, also seen some really horrific injuries, some nasty accidents.
One guy hit a taxicab so hard on the FDR in NYC one afternoon it looked like the cab backed into a telephone pole at 60 MPH, instant fatality, he was in the backseat of the cab, done. My uncle smashed his HD into the back of a dumptruck that pulled out and cut him off, Oct 15, 2002, had to break the news to my mother. Seen another who had wiped out, hit a retaining wall, just happened, he was already gone, no vitals. Another one, whole group of riders, one with his GF on the back, stopped traffic in a hidden spot on the belt parkway in Brooklyn, his head was the size of a pumpkin at the funeral, several fatalities in that one. Had 2 riders on a yamaha TT250 hit me, they were completely illegal, no lights, no helmets, and I never even saw em coming from the opposite direction. I was driving a '73 impala, was a senior in HS, was just making a turn at about 3 mph, was at night, they hit the drivers side front corner of my bumper, that broke both their legs with compound fractrures before they launched into the air and flew over the roof, one hit a telephone pole in mid air, the other one missed. I graduated HS with a $3.5 million dollar lawsuit, it took years to settle out, they survived, the one who hit the pole was going to get up and kick my @ss, but his leg was wound up beside his head and he was missing part of his foot. Ended up they tried to say I did it intentionally too. I'm standing over him, looking at this, the other guy was out cold, just thought he was dead, he made it too. Lost a friend from school, had not seen him since middle school, this was 2 years after HS, he was working for a friend of my dads doing excavation on the new building going up where I was working, nice saturday, 1/2 day, was great to see him, that afternoon he slammed into a bus.
Have seen a lot more of these, not sure why either, but over the years it sure adds up, and you can't let it stop you, bikes are a lot of fun, get out to those nice country back roads, paved of course, we have a lot of state roads that are good riding still, but get into that urban area, the highway, forewarned is forearmed, really have to be careful.
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