Support the National Kidney Foundataion
Donot wear you motorcycle helmet

or if that is too subtle

Do not wear your motorcylser helmet
We nned your kidneys

They also had an interesting graph, which showed the differences between hot months (no lid) and cold months (probable lid) in regards to…? I can’t say for sure what exactly it was saying as, well, it was in Korean and passed pretty quickly and there could be a lot of variables there. The summer lidless months had a much higher rate of…something.

Could this be the start of awareness? Or just another “crackdown” as The Nomad alludes to…

I’d say, wear a helmet AND a decent jacket (a leather one at least). Make that a helmet, a decent jacket AND jeans at the least. Flying off a bike during a fall is bad enough (and everyone knows this from experience), how much more for a motorbike running at least 60kph?

What even shocked me more was that Florida uplifted the helmet law. There was an obvious spike of fatalities due to head injuries. The US of all places…

Although you are a facetious, childish person with far too much free time on your hands who stopped being funny long ago, I should respond and say that I have no illusions about changing people’s minds. but if the accidents and corresponding head injuries cause people to even think about wearing a helmet more, then that’s fine with me.

I have been riding helmetless all my life, but after reading your blog — I now wear a helmet. Thank you.

People, …. I said, PEOPLE — “just wear a helmet, we are all adults here.”

You think he would care about her enough to either buy her a helmet or to let her wear his. Be a man…Take the chivalrous “you wear the helmet because your pretty face is more important than mine, and I will risk the ticket” approach.

But then again, it’s not always the guy’s fault. Countless times throughout my life I have had the following conversation:

ME: Here. Put this helmet on.
HER: Do I have to? I don’t want to mess up my hair.
ME: Yes. You have to. Put it on.
HER: I don’t want to.
ME: If you want to ride, you have to put it on.
HER: If I have to wear one, then I don’t want to ride.
ME: Are you sure.
HER: Yes.
ME: OK.. Bye {trottles off into the sunset}

JUST WEAR A HELMET PEOPLE! And wear other gear too, Wearing a helmet with a tanktop, cutoff shorts, no socks, and flipflops just means your head will be pretty for the funeral.

I do agree with your assessment though - if that was the case I think he may of panicked but that is neither here nor there.

Education and training go a long ways.

I don’t know for sure whether or not she was wearing a helmet, but I would assume that if he wasn’t, then she wasn’t either. This also leads me to think that it is likely that if he wasn’t wearing a helmet, he was also not wearing anything more protective than a shirt and pants.

Other than inexperience, I can’t imagine what led him to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid a car in front of him (if that is actually what happened), but perhaps a little training and/or more experience, combined with proper safety gear would have minimized, or possibly even negated the accident.

That having been said, I don’t want to arm chair Monday-morning quarterback what happened to this guy and his girl. I just hope that helmetless riders will wake up to the real dangers, wear a good lid, wear other protective gear, take some safety traing and thereby increase their chances of living to ride another day.

That brings me to a good point… If anyone from Taegu to Pusan and Pusan to Jinju is interested in learning more about safe riding, I would be happy to meet with you and give you some safety tips and take a safety-oriented ride with you.

I put my brother through a training program a few weeks ago, including a total 9 hour ride through some of the worst conditions imaginable. He did remarkably well. Now he has a brand new bike of his own and riding around Seoul…. leaving me to fret like a mother hen. But because he is my brother, he knows that if I catch even a rumor of him not wearing full protective gear, I will stomp the hell out of him. Other people I don’t have so much control over.

As they say, “Live to ride. Ride to live.”