I know this issue always gets some folks hackels up but anyways. Last weekend a guy on a harley roadking left one of our local club houses. The road being freshly paved had a very low shoulder which he ran off of. He had to make a quick decision as he was running out of room and his only choice was to try to bring it back on the road. He didnt make it. Got the front wheel back up but the back wheel kicked out and he went down. He suffered major head injurys.He will survive most likey but best estimates are two years to recover. With maybe sixty percent brain function. He had no other broken bones or serious injury. Had he had being wearing a proper helmet in this particular case he probably would have walked away. Just a thought.