Here is the point I was trying to make in posting this:
Not wearing a helmet can F-You UP BAD!
THIS WAS NOT ARCTIC CAT's FAULT!
Even a slow roll over can cause injury to your dome if not protected.. FACT (slow tip over, sharp pointy rock in window opening, SPLAT)
When you see a photo like this, it has to make you think!!
Everyone thinks they are invincible and so utterly responsible when driving off-road until someone ELSE causes them to evade and crash!! Think of what YOU CANNOT CONTROL!
THAT SH>> LOOKS LIKE ITS HURTS!
Chicks dig scars, but not brain damage!!!
If I can save one friend by making him wear a helmet on a ride I am leading, then its all worth it!!
Some parents are idiots, put kids in cars and drive like morons. Kids can't make their own decisions but if the law makes you put a helmet on them then maybe the kids who can't protect themselves can be saved!!
Just some thoughts I have on this subject as I am 50/50 on support of the law. I hate having to wear a helmet when cruising around camps and what not, but its stupid to go "riding" and not have one on.
Ya, my parents don't ride in cali anymore because of this STUPID law. Keep posting up pics like that and they will keep taking stuff from your website to use against the folks who don't want shit shoved down their throat.......
A real roll cage with a B pillar connected to a door bar could have also saved that cats Wig. Get off the helmet kick JD1 busted wig, and 1000 not busted with properly built cars
I DGAF, I will be the bad guy. I still sleep good.
Sure a properly built roll cage will help save people.. NO ARGUMENT from me on that. BUT, a properly built roll cage, with an improperly harnessed in person can still smash a head or face.
I get it, you guys don't like to be told what to do. Putting a helmet on is such a MASSIVE inconvenience in your riding lives. For that I say it sucks for you guys, and I am being sincere, it does suck. With that said, the law doesn't bother me all that much PERSONALLY because I wear a helmet 90% of the time anyway. Guess what, I went to Baja this weekend where I don't have to wear a helmet and so when I went for a cruise down the beach I didn't. BUT, when I went out on race day I thought, hmmm lots of dumb-asses that think their racers are gonna be driving around. I think I will do myself, my family and friends a favor and put my helmet on. Luckily I didn't need it, but you know who could of used one? The Couple that was hit HEAD ON by an idiot driving an access road like he was in a race car! The couple was in a Rhino and the cage had to be torn a part with the jaws of life. The helmet wouldn't of saved their legs that were broken but could have kept their heads and faces from being cut up and cracked. Point is, this makes me think. In baja we had the choice, wear one or not. I chose to wear one, they chose not too, but had they been MANDATED to wear one by law then they could of possibly sustained far less injuries. You know what, I hate the f'n seatbelt law in a car, but I understand it, and because its the law I follow it majority of the time. If there wasn't a law I would wear it far less of the time. Its all relevant. The law is there to protect us, its not like they are robbing us of our guns or placing another stupid tax on us. They see that there are a lot of dip shits getting their wigs split, best way to reduce that is to mandate a helmet law that affects us all. IT SUCKS, but is it really that massive of a deal?
At any rate. Its the law. If you guys want to shit down my throat for accepting it and dealing with it then so be it. Like I said, I still sleep fine at night.
Joey, they are coming for our guns and they are raising our taxes!! But thats not the topic at hand. You know as well as I do a solid built car would not have hurt this man. Can some freak shit happen??? absolutely!! you know how many times I thought about crashing my car at pismo near the fenceline and being impeled by a fence stake??? ALOT more times than I thought holy shit...I might bust my skull on my roll cage. As a matter a fact in my R1 car I was NEVER concerned about hitting my head. Dip shits will be Dip shits, you cant fix that, but for the guy that has been offroading ALL his life and never had more than a cut or bruise the helmet law is a slap in the chops.
For me...enough is enough...they win...I quit. And that is sad as die hard a duner that I was. F*ck em...they can have those dunes.