07-01-2022, 08:29 AM
I'm a huge proponent of full face all the time, summer, winter, whatever, but at the same time i DO have a 3/4 visor helmet like the one in Tommy's pic. I use it on my little mini bike in the summer heat, especially when i'm at a festival environment and there's a lot of slow speed toodling around. whenever the potential speed of an accident exceeds a certain limit though...yea. back to my Shoei.
The bike in the pic is a R18. i've ridden one. i'm confident TommyMCK isn't going to be trying to set lap times on that thing.
I always find this attitude interesting because it highlights how motorcycle crashes are simoultaneously massively OVERestimated and massively UNDERestimated. Some people go through life thinking they're invincible and some people go through life thinking any kind of motorcycle accident is the END OF YOUR LIFE. It's not. theyr'e survivable. a lot of people just kind of brush off and are superficially injured. at the same time, if you take NO steps to mitigate the inevitable crash, you'll turn out much worse. in all cases, survival is actually much more frequent than you'd think. statistics show that even people who go down without a helmet survive way more often than you'd think...just with far more severe and longlasting injury. thinking you'll just perish nice and easy if you crash your motorcycle is a worse kind of hubris than thinking you'll never crash at all.
The bike in the pic is a R18. i've ridden one. i'm confident TommyMCK isn't going to be trying to set lap times on that thing.
(07-01-2022, 06:18 AM)PowerDubs_imp Wrote: Not a chance I would ride without a full helmet and full gear.
I see people all the times on bikes- a jacket, jeans- but no gloves, sneakers, 1/2 bucket cap excuse for a helmet... dummies.
My father in law rides in t-shirt, shorts and flip flops. Always says- If I crash I just want to die.
I respond- but what if you don't?
I always find this attitude interesting because it highlights how motorcycle crashes are simoultaneously massively OVERestimated and massively UNDERestimated. Some people go through life thinking they're invincible and some people go through life thinking any kind of motorcycle accident is the END OF YOUR LIFE. It's not. theyr'e survivable. a lot of people just kind of brush off and are superficially injured. at the same time, if you take NO steps to mitigate the inevitable crash, you'll turn out much worse. in all cases, survival is actually much more frequent than you'd think. statistics show that even people who go down without a helmet survive way more often than you'd think...just with far more severe and longlasting injury. thinking you'll just perish nice and easy if you crash your motorcycle is a worse kind of hubris than thinking you'll never crash at all.