If that's me you're talking to, well, I apologize!

But I have to agree with Aaron again, it's going to be a losing battle. It's a question of how we dress, and why we dress the way we dress. In the case of the helmet, there are two closely related points here: First, I wear it for practical, rather than aesthetic, reasons. Second, loud gaudy coloration (which I, personally, consider ugly) makes the helmet safer, and therefore more practical; an unobtrusive (and perhaps more attractive) helmet would, for this very reason, be less practical.