Because some states allow it in the boonies and some people take their cars to track events....plus plenty of people do 90mph with out getting stopped.

It's a freedom issue

Freedom Issue? Perhaps.

But then again, in most States, Motorcyclists are allowed to ride Helmetless whilst Car Drivers and their Passengers must be belted in. Makes you wonder about "Freedom."


Jim.

What scares me is that they don't put speed limiters on trucks here...!
An 18 wheeler flying past you at 80 mph in the wet is quite a scary experience!

I never understood that one. Freedom is all well and good but helmets do such a good job of keeping one's brain inside one's head.

Dont repress me man.

I suppose it's the culture you are representing. I know the Harley types like to be without a helmet.

I've never expressed much of a desire to own a motorbike but being from the land of the Northwest 200 and the Dunlop brothers, I always preferred the sportier numbers myself, for which a helmet seems more necessary.

Actually, truth be told, I'd love an old Triumph or Norton if the money was ever there! Still a car man at heart, though.

Riding with no helmet is sorta asking for trouble really. I always, well mostly, wore mine back in the days i used to ride.

I got busted once for not wearing it but tHe cop let me go when he found i was usin it as a shopping basket and had a frozen chicken in it.

These days i stick to having fun in my stick-shift car, which i manage to corner in just fine, despite having to let go of the steering wheel occasionally.

Biker groups just paid more.

Ironic that NH has "Live free or die" as their motto, because of all their freedoms, they don't get federal funding for their roads, so they're shit, which no doubt leads to a lot more deaths

Saying that, they still have a higher percentage of insured car drivers than most states where it's required. Wonder if that's because you can't fart before hitting a neighbouring state though

Isn't NH where folks make their own streetsigns?

I always wore a helmet back in my I-want-to-be-killed cycling days, unless I found an old oil access road, I'd stop, clip the helmet on the bike, and putter till I hit the end of the road. Loved that, miss it.

Pete

The convicts, at least....or they just shoot them

LOL!

Pete

We have both - Expedition is an auto, and Mazdaspeed6 is a manual. I view it as an anti-theft device. Locals told me I was crazy to get one because of all the stop start, but I don't find any problems with it. Even when I had cars with a DSG or auto 'box in the UK, I would always use them in flappy paddle mode.

Time for some Lucas Electric jokes?

Two that stick in the mind:

Lord Lucas, the Prince of Darkness.

Why do the British drink warm beer? Their refrigerators are manufactured by Lucas Electric.

BTW, I used to own a 1966 Sunbeam Tiger. It was an interesting combination of British and US technology.

Further BTW, on anti-theft -- the prior owner of that Tiger had placed a switch under the dash which was the power line to the electric fuel pump [most US cars had mechanical pumps then -- "vapor lock" was no fun]. The Lucas ignition switch was so bad that it only took a screwdriver to turn the car on. The anti-theft part arose from the fact that the thief could start the car -- on the fuel in the carburetor bowl and drive the car about 750 feet. When the car then stalled and could not be restarted in the middle of the street, the thief would then abandon the car. Had that happen twice.