I wear a helmet 99% of the time while riding a motorcycle. I don't believe in helmet laws. Its your life, do as you choose. Minors, that's a different story, but if you don't mind your kid being a vegetable, then by all means, let em' skip the helmet. It doesn't need to be legislated.
Same with seatbelt laws. Its my life, I can do with it as I please. I do have a friend that would've been almost certainly killed had he not been thrown out of the car. But to be fair, that is a freak thing
I remember when Florida went from mandatory motorcycle helmets to optional. The motorcycle accident death rate went from about 45/yr. average up to over 500/yr.
Many years ago I owned a BMW R100S road bike, one day a drunk in a Cadilac T-Boned us (wife on back, 2mo. pregnant) and we flew over his caddy and bounced down US1. As I was bouncing down the road, I watched my wife's head bouncing up and down like a basketball, I was thinking, "Glad I wore my helmet, or this would be very ugly!"
Motorcycles aren't that dangerous if you know how to ride, it's the idiots in the cars that will kill you! But I always wore my helmet.
