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Old 11-26-23 | 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by jadmt
I have been wearing a helmet for years but on my last 70 mile ride it was 28-32°F and I decided I would be more comfortable wearing a stocking cap that would make my helmet not really fit on my head. I have to say It felt great not wearing a helmet. I rode from the time I was probably 6 years old to my late 20's without a helmet but then they started being required in races so I just got used to wearing one. . It felt so good not wearing a helmet on my 70 mile ride I think I am going to skip the helmet for most of my rides.
Admittedly, a bicycle is not a motorcycle, but I'm reminded of a guy I knew back in Oregon - he was a highway patrolman. There weren't mandatory helmet laws for motorcycles in Oregon then (are there now?). The highway patrol dudes had slang for motorcyclists without helmets:

"organ donor".
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