Originally Posted by
MinnMan
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".
I made a living riding motorcycles....and you are absolutely right a bicycle is not a motorcycle. My first responder friends usually say the difference between a motorcyclists without a helmet vs one with a helmet is a closed casket vs an open one........