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US citizens seem to often do so..

Unrelated, I once on a trip to the US met a group of motorcyclists on modern bikes and with proper, modern safety gear (at Grand canyon I believe). Having never seen this before in the US (outside sports bikers doing it as much as a clothing statement as for safety) I went over and said hi and said this was the first time I had seen this. "We are Canadians" they laughing replied.

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I’m not sure where you’re from in the US but I can tell you many motorcyclists are big into safety gear. Yes it’ll probably be associated with a sports bike because in general people driving hogs are doing that for the statement rather than anything else because the bikes aren’t very good (slow, poor steering, etc). I’ve never known someone on a sports bike to be wearing good safety gear just for the fashion as it’s almost always a worse look.

I was on holiday. I'm not from the States at all but from Scandinavia :)

ATGATT: All the gear, all the time.

On my way to Nova Scotia I passed through New Hampshire and rode without my helmet for a number of minutes. It was more fun than driving without a seatbelt which offers no such novelty--which is more like being on a sportbike with sandals.

I’m glad you made it there noggin intact. Not everyone is so fortunate.

It's more that the organ donor freedom riders vastly outnumber those thinking about safety.

>organ donor freedom riders

I both cringed and laughed at the same time. Thanks for the (not so pretty) picture in my head!

A doctor once told me that helmets are actually good for organ donation because they protect the brain stem just long enough to harvest the organs. Wearing no helmet at all just wastes perfectly good organs that could have been donated.

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