Re wearin' the helmet in extreme heat, and to expand upon your post, Dan...
A few weeks back, Larry Disney riding from his home in Des Moines to California in order to attend a seminar about his future purchase of a UPS franchise, stopped for the night at my place here in Prescott.
(yes, yes, folks...if you're wonderin', we had a couple of very stimulating political discussions while he was here...but that's really NOT the point of this, and so I'll move on...OKAY?!)
Well ANYWAY, just as he left my house the next day to continue on down the mountains around here and into the desert to connect to I-10 and onto California, I asked him to give me a call on his cellphone when he got to his destination in SoCal so I would know he made it there in one piece and in good shape...which he did.
(and btw, if you see this Larry, thanks for the call, and it truly was a pleasure to have finally met ya face-to-face!!!)
And, while on the phone, he told me that while going through the deserts of AZ and CA he noticed that wearing his helmet really helped him fight the extreme heat down there (which is somethin' I pretty much knew anyway) as it was averaging about 110F that day on I-10.
And so, the point is, during the extremely hot dry summer months in the lower elevations of AZ, I tend to see many if not the majority of riders who are comin' up to the higher elevations of Prescott to escape the summer heat who aren't wearing helmets(for those who might not know, AZ has no mandatory helmet laws for adult riders), and I've always wondered how it is that those riders seem to be under the misconception that it's somehow cooler(not "cooler lookin'", which I'll bet is what they're thinkin') for them by not wearing a helmet in these kinds of temperature conditions?
(...but then again, most of the riders I'm talkin' about here are ridin' them there Harley-Davidson motorsickles, and so these are folks who are probably under a whole host of misconceptions about things, huh?!...like which motorcycle brand is the coolest...lookin', in THIS case!)
