Originally Posted by
spooner
For you anti-helmet folks - would you participate in a charity ride that required wearing a helmet? Or is your belief that a helmet should not be required so strong that you would intentionally not participate in such a ride? If so, would you go through the trouble of letting the organization know that you chose not to participate because of their mandatory helmet rule?
Helmets are mandatory by law in my province so I don't hold it against any organized event i may choose to participate in for requiring them.(lucky for me, because many would probably require them even without an MHL, which could raise my ire.) Riding by myself, however, I choose to go helmetless about 95% of the time, in contravention of the law, and I will not apologize or make lame excuses to police officers for my choices if stopped. I believe it should be a personal choice, so that is how I act.