Almost Forgot Helmet!! tell your story.

[JT]

Occasionally when I’m doing something that is not in my routine I find myself hoping on the bike rolling away and then think to myself "wait something is different, O shit forgot my helmet!" luckily this happens in my back alley and I don’t make it more than a house to two away from mine going no more than 10 mph.

Alright guys how many times if any have you left or almost left without a helmet?


ATGATT - includs helmet by the way lmfao

 

[JSP]

Never......

 

[bleedinblue]

Stop sitting your helmet on the ground dude lol.The bars or the pita cable will keep it in your memory.

My problem is my keys.I had to start patting my pocket to doublecheck that iv got them.Its a routine now.I forget about them dealing with my lid sometimes.So I check everytime I step away.

 

[yellowfz]

+1 what Jay said.
Sounds like a rookie mistake to me.

 

[Brock Kickass]

Never. In Ontario helments are required by law. Besides that, it's been driven in to my thick head since childhood that you never throw a leg over a bike, ATV, snomobile, etc... with no helmet. It's like a reflex. Lately, I've been in the habit of putting my bike away at night from the parking spot in front of my house to my garage out back, which involves about 25 feet of riding down the street and then up my 15 foot driveway. I'm paraniod about being spotted and getting a ticket doing even that! I must look awfully funny in my jammie bottoms and no shirt with my helmet on.

 

[will415]

If you put a picture up like that again of someone with a broken head i will punch you in the neck lol jk but i have never forgot my helmet forgot my gloves ones but ran back up my 23 flight of stairs to get to my place to get them then i felt like this :zombie: ha:wav:

 

[JT]

If you put a picture up like that again of someone with a broken head i will punch you in the neck lol jk but i have never forgot my helmet forgot my gloves ones but ran back up my 23 flight of stairs to get to my place to get them then i felt like this :zombie: ha:wav:

Just a friendly reminder to wear your helmet. haha

 

[leem00]

Here in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio we are not required to wear one.

However when I was riding in TN years back, I strapped the hemet to the passanger seat of the honda shadow as I would have normally done here, and took off. Got about a block up the road and realized oh sh!t need helmet here. stopped and strapped it on my head.

 

[Alex6]

I need to stick the ear plug into my ears, remove glasses, put a helmet, insert the glasses. This freaking routine is so annoying, but it won't let me forget any of these steps...

 

[Brock Kickass]

Here in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio we are not required to ware one.

However when I was riding in TN years back, I strepped the hemet to the passanger seat of the honda shadow as I would have normally done here, and took off. Got about a block up the road and realized oh sh!t need helmet here. stopped and strapped it on.

Still in utter disbelief that there are places where you don't have to wear a helmet, and also that there are people who don't want to wear one. To each their own, and I'm the last one to tell someone how to live thair life, but man! There is no compelling argument against wearing a helmet. If you don't want to you don't want to, but there is no good reason not to.

 

[MistahT]

Never. In Ontario helments are required by law. Besides that, it's been driven in to my thick head since childhood that you never throw a leg over a bike, ATV, snomobile, etc... with no helmet. It's like a reflex. Lately, I've been in the habit of putting my bike away at night from the parking spot in front of my house to my garage out back, which involves about 25 feet of riding down the street and then up my 15 foot driveway. I'm paraniod about being spotted and getting a ticket doing even that! I must look awfully funny in my jammie bottoms and no shirt with my helmet on.

I visited a friend with another riding buddy of mine. We were coming up the driveway and my friend (under 5mph) hit the edge of the driveway and went down. Smash up his fairings and his leg. Accidents can happen ANYWHERE, it's why they're called accidents. Always be prepared.

That said, I think I've ridden without my lid twice. It was about half a block, just to make sure something I fixed works right.... but probably a time I need a helmet MORE. What if my fix wasn't really fixed?

 

[nismos14]

I have never forgotten it, I have rode 2 or 3 times no more than 1/2 a block with out one, but each time I had my feet down too, it was less than 5 mph and was only to move the bike. I never ever forget it, and cannot imagine why someone would.

 

[Brock Kickass]

I visited a friend with another riding buddy of mine. We were coming up the driveway and my friend (under 5mph) hit the edge of the driveway and went down. Smash up his fairings and his leg. Accidents can happen ANYWHERE, it's why they're called accidents. Always be prepared.

That said, I think I've ridden without my lid twice. It was about half a block, just to make sure something I fixed works right.... but probably a time I need a helmet MORE. What if my fix wasn't really fixed?

I was walking out to my car last winter. I slipped on my walkway and went down like the Titanic. Accidents CAN happen anywhere.

I'm just being a smartass. I realy did fall, though. I wish I had been wearing my Icon underwaer with the pads in the hips, because I landed right on my hip and it hurt like hell!

I really hope I never dump my bike in the driveway, and am sure I will be better off with a lid than without if I ever do, but the police factor really is the motivating issue when I pop my helmet on to move my bike around the corner. I don't even get the clutch all the way out when I move it.

They say you can never be too careful, but you really can. Otherwise we'll all be huddling in our houses with leathers and oven mitts on. And then I go and mouth off about how it's crazy to not wear a helmet. I sound like a huge hypocrite, but I understand myself, so that's all that matters to me.

 

[Maadi]

Never on a bike. Once on a horse, though. And it was the day I decided to go trail riding bare back. After I realized my helmet wasn't on, I felt extremely creeped out the whole way back. The horse was old and solid as a rock, but you never know... Scary feeling! Same feeling as being in a car without a seat belt.

 

[FZ6Rob85]

Here in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio we are not required to wear one.

However when I was riding in TN years back, I strapped the hemet to the passanger seat of the honda shadow as I would have normally done here, and took off. Got about a block up the road and realized oh sh!t need helmet here. stopped and strapped it on my head.

Yeah to extrapolate on this...Ohio requires all riders on a temporary permit, riders with a full permit under the age of 18, and riders over the age of 18 with less than 1 year riding on a full permit to wear helmet, but other than that no requirement. I did have a buddy get nailed for flush mounts that were "too small" though lmfao.

 

[JSP]

I did forget my pants one day... Went to class and everything. Got up to the podium to give my speech and everyone started pointing and laughing.



Oh, that was just a dream...


:shakehead:

 

[BoneJj]

Back in the day I used to ride without a helmet all the time before I started to realize how important they were.

Ever since I started wearing them I have not ever forgotten to put it on.

now doing the chin strap is a different story all together.

 

[JSP]

Back in the day I used to ride without a helmet all the time before I started to realize how important they were.

Ever since I started wearing them I have not ever forgotten to put it on.

now doing the chin strap is a different story all together.

AH! I HAVE forgot that one before.