NikiterZTS,Oct 9 2007, 09:53 AM Wrote:naz,Oct 9 2007, 01:48 AM Wrote:i did a search its either for a scooter or a pocket bike right?
EDIT: god its so hard for me not to make this a 'wear gear' post preaching about gear and safety etc. i am not changing any of my previous posts about gear or helmet even though this is 'just' a pocket bike
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i mean yea its only for a pocket bike......shouldn't be enough?
if i was gonna get cbr700 or something....then i would do nothing but spend money on my safety.......
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The night my son was injured, two other skateboarders in the Durham area, doing exactly what my son was doing, using their skateboards to get home, were hit by cars, and out of the three, my son is the only one still on this earth. All were hit in residential areas... so speed or size doesn't really matter.
yeah but if you wanna get real technical I can walk down the road get hit by a car and die but im not wearing a helmet , theres risk in everything you do , Its up to nik but if it was me a basic helmet thats dot approved would suffice .
So by this logic we shouldn't wear helmets at all ... we shouldn't wear seatbelts ... we shouldn't go to the doctor when we're sick ... we shouldn't do anything to protect ourselves because - well we could get hit by a car walking down the road.
Sorry ... but by definition "smart people" do whatever it takes to minimize risk and they further do whatever they can to mitigate the potential for harm when something bad happens - because something bad happens a lot.
Nik can obviously choose to do whatever he wants ... but he came on here looking to buy a helmet and asking for opinions ... and somehow that changed into Nik looking for our "approval" to purchase something that some of us think is sub-standard ... something that is probably the single most important piece of safety equipment a motorcyclist will ever own.
This is exactly what I was talking about in the other thread about the legislation of tire pressure monitoring systems and reactive cruise control.
Politicians and bureaucrats have come to the conclusion that common sense is anything but common ... you can't legislate intelligence and you can't outlaw stupidity ... and therefore we must be protected from ourselves. They don't think we can be trusted to make the right decision ourselves because frankly all the evidence says that they are correct.
Is there any other explanation for the fact that there has to be laws on the books to actually force people to do up their seatbelts or to put on motorcycle helmets? And even then not everyone does it. Am I the only one who thinks that this perhaps the most blatant proof of the rampant idiocy that makes up our society?
Nik - do what you want, but it seems like you're more interested in the colour of the helmet than anything else ... so my advice is to give your head a shake and reconsider what's really important ... and invest accordingly. If finding the extra money to buy a proper helmet is a hardship, then may I respectfully suggest you shouldn't be buying a motorcycle in the first place.
Just my .02.
zx5power,Oct 9 2007, 01:13 PM Wrote:yeah but if you wanna get real technical I can walk down the road get hit by a car and die but im not wearing a helmet , theres risk in everything you do.
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zx5power,Oct 9 2007, 01:13 PM Wrote:yeah but if you wanna get real technical I can walk down the road get hit by a car and die but im not wearing a helmet , theres risk in everything you do , Its up to nik but if it was me a basic helmet thats dot approved would suffice .
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You can also have sex and not wear a condom............
nik.. its a toy bike but its enough to get you dead.. 45mph is no joke (that is what those pocket bikes can do right?) if you hit an unyielding object like a tree squarely at even 25mph you are at risk for some very serious injuries
i'm not saying you should drop $500 on an arai helmet but i think you should get a brand new properly fitting helmet, instead of an used helmet that may not fit you right and has crash foam that is past its shelf life
also dont forget about other gear like boots, pants, gloves.
ok guys im gonna think about it