I am sitting here trying to remember a short film I watched during a mandatory USAF motorcycle saferly class many years ago....
The filmed a melon dropped from I dont remember how high and of course if broke on impact all over the place. They then took a like sized melon and put it in a helmet and dropped the helmet and of course the melon survived.
The moral of the stroy was that if you wanted to keep your melon in one piece you should wear a helmet.
I do....but on ocassion when its hot and nasty and the feeling comes over you to just let it all hang out then you go ahead and do so. I dont have to wear a helmet in Arizona and from time to time .....I dont....
I dont like to wear a jacket in the middle of June either. Too freaking hot. Heck I wear short sleeve shirts and even T-shirts. Incerased risk of major road rash in an accident ....you bet. But its an informed choice I make of my own accord. I am well aware what will happen to me and my skin if I drag it at 60 miles an hour along a hot asphalt roadway.
If my skull impacts any immoveable object at 60 miles an hour than I am well aware of the result of that as well.
Life is short and at times a lttle risk makes it all the more interesting.
