I think it came from this guy.
http://www.infowars.com/
He has been spamming his films as FH911 for a while on Kazaa. It's interesting to watch and a little scary.
But be aware he is extremely paranoid and was/is looked on very highly by the survivalist movement.
So are you against most states without helmet laws' requirement for some form of eye protection
Or the laws requiring a person with impaired vision to wear corrective lenses before they are allowed to drive/ride?
Or what about laws requiring you to wear pants? They are definately modifying your being and forcing conformity.
But we have gotten to the root of the entire thing. This is not about safety, this is not about control (or else any requirements would be questioned), this is about fashion.
While most motorcycle accidents (like most car accidents) can be avoided by paying attention, planning an escape route, and flat knowing how to ride, shit happens. Even the best rider in the world can have a stupid moment or get into a situation where they react incorrectly. Or even have a major mechanical failure (it happens even to the best maintained bike). Then the name of the game is survival.
You'd be surprised what you can live through with the right gear. I've seen racers highside a bike at 120 mph, slide into a barrier, and survive. Shure they broke their legs or had a minor head injury but they lived to race another day.
I've personally had three decent wrecks. One caused by my transmission locking up at 40mph on a 3 month old motorcycle. Most sport riders have had at least one if not more. And the stunters seem to wreck every other day. Yet most live to do it again (and again, etc).
Even a small parking lot goof can be potentially fatal to an unprotected head. Fall down at a stoplight and smack your melon on a car fender and you could be on your way to a hospital or the morgue.
And helmets aren't much of a safety hazard, peripheral vision is barely affected with a well designed helmet (and not affected at all in most beanie types) and hearing can be helped once you are going faster than 30mph or so. At that speed the wind noise is enough to significantly reduce hearinig capability and after about 10 minutes your hearing will be impaired for the next few hours. Helmets block enough direct wind noise to help this significantly, leaving you better able to hear in traffic. And many touring riders wear ear plugs at highway speeds for additional noise reduction.
The thing that gets to me about all of this is how you protest laws requiring helmets as reducing your freedom and enacting government control. Yet at the same time you have no issue with the requirements for brake lights (in most cases) turn signals, a specific motorcycle liscensce, and actually propose more intervention and control in the form of mandatory advanced rider training. I guess I just don't get it.
I've watched and participated in this debate for a few years now and I'm going to level with you. This entire fight is about looks. Most of the badass bikers and squids don't like the way they look with a helmet. It interfears with their dangerous and devil may care attitudes. This is why they own a bike and they'll be damned if the govt is going to turn them respectable.
They've seen too many bad biker flicks where the hero rides off into the sunset hair flapping in the breeze (most real bikers know enough to wear a bandana so the wind doesn't remove theirs).
While most motorcycle accidents (like most car accidents) can be avoided by paying attention, planning an escape route, and flat knowing how to ride, shit happens. Even the best rider in the world can have a stupid moment or get into a situation where they react incorrectly. Or even have a major mechanical failure (it happens even to the best maintained bike). Then the name of the game is survival.
You'd be surprised what you can live through with the right gear. I've seen racers highside a bike at 120 mph, slide into a barrier, and survive. Shure they broke their legs or had a minor head injury but they lived to race another day.
I've personally had three decent wrecks. One caused by my transmission locking up at 40mph on a 3 month old motorcycle. Most sport riders have had at least one if not more. And the stunters seem to wreck every other day. Yet most live to do it again (and again, etc).
Even a small parking lot goof can be potentially fatal to an unprotected head. Fall down at a stoplight and smack your melon on a car fender and you could be on your way to a hospital or the morgue.
And helmets aren't much of a safety hazard, peripheral vision is barely affected with a well designed helmet (and not affected at all in most beanie types) and hearing can be helped once you are going faster than 30mph or so. At that speed the wind noise is enough to significantly reduce hearinig capability and after about 10 minutes your hearing will be impaired for the next few hours. Helmets block enough direct wind noise to help this significantly, leaving you better able to hear in traffic. And many touring riders wear ear plugs at highway speeds for additional noise reduction.
The thing that gets to me about all of this is how you protest laws requiring helmets as reducing your freedom and enacting government control. Yet at the same time you have no issue with the requirements for brake lights (in most cases) turn signals, a specific motorcycle liscensce, and actually propose more intervention and control in the form of mandatory advanced rider training. I guess I just don't get it.
I've watched and participated in this debate for a few years now and I'm going to level with you. This entire fight is about looks. Most of the badass bikers and squids don't like the way they look with a helmet. It interfears with their dangerous and devil may care attitudes. This is why they own a bike and they'll be damned if the govt is going to turn them respectable.
They've seen too many bad biker flicks where the hero rides off into the sunset hair flapping in the breeze (most real bikers know enough to wear a bandana so the wind doesn't remove theirs).
And for that we are willing to sit back and watch as countless newbies and RUB's kill themselves on our freeways and surface streets? There were 6 motorcycle fatalities in my town this year. All but one would have survived if they had had a helmet on. Unskilled rider or not.
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I think it came from this guy. http://www.infowars.com/ He has been spamming his films as FH911 for a while on Kazaa. It's interesting to watch and a little scary. But be aware he is extremely paranoid and was/is looked on very highly by the survivalist movement.
Any landing where you can use the plane again is absolutely wonderful. :)
So are you against most states without helmet laws' requirement for some form of eye protection Or the laws requiring a person with impaired vision to wear corrective lenses before they are allowed to drive/ride? Or what about laws requiring you to wear pants? They are definately modifying your being and forcing conformity. But we have gotten to the root of the entire thing. This is not about safety, this is not about control (or else any requirements would be questioned), this is about fashion.
While most motorcycle accidents (like most car accidents) can be avoided by paying attention, planning an escape route, and flat knowing how to ride, shit happens. Even the best rider in the world can have a stupid moment or get into a situation where they react incorrectly. Or even have a major mechanical failure (it happens even to the best maintained bike). Then the name of the game is survival.
You'd be surprised what you can live through with the right gear. I've seen racers highside a bike at 120 mph, slide into a barrier, and survive. Shure they broke their legs or had a minor head injury but they lived to race another day.
I've personally had three decent wrecks. One caused by my transmission locking up at 40mph on a 3 month old motorcycle. Most sport riders have had at least one if not more. And the stunters seem to wreck every other day. Yet most live to do it again (and again, etc).
Even a small parking lot goof can be potentially fatal to an unprotected head. Fall down at a stoplight and smack your melon on a car fender and you could be on your way to a hospital or the morgue.
And helmets aren't much of a safety hazard, peripheral vision is barely affected with a well designed helmet (and not affected at all in most beanie types) and hearing can be helped once you are going faster than 30mph or so. At that speed the wind noise is enough to significantly reduce hearinig capability and after about 10 minutes your hearing will be impaired for the next few hours. Helmets block enough direct wind noise to help this significantly, leaving you better able to hear in traffic. And many touring riders wear ear plugs at highway speeds for additional noise reduction.
The thing that gets to me about all of this is how you protest laws requiring helmets as reducing your freedom and enacting government control. Yet at the same time you have no issue with the requirements for brake lights (in most cases) turn signals, a specific motorcycle liscensce, and actually propose more intervention and control in the form of mandatory advanced rider training. I guess I just don't get it.
I've watched and participated in this debate for a few years now and I'm going to level with you. This entire fight is about looks. Most of the badass bikers and squids don't like the way they look with a helmet. It interfears with their dangerous and devil may care attitudes. This is why they own a bike and they'll be damned if the govt is going to turn them respectable.
They've seen too many bad biker flicks where the hero rides off into the sunset hair flapping in the breeze (most real bikers know enough to wear a bandana so the wind doesn't remove theirs).
While most motorcycle accidents (like most car accidents) can be avoided by paying attention, planning an escape route, and flat knowing how to ride, shit happens. Even the best rider in the world can have a stupid moment or get into a situation where they react incorrectly. Or even have a major mechanical failure (it happens even to the best maintained bike). Then the name of the game is survival. You'd be surprised what you can live through with the right gear. I've seen racers highside a bike at 120 mph, slide into a barrier, and survive. Shure they broke their legs or had a minor head injury but they lived to race another day. I've personally had three decent wrecks. One caused by my transmission locking up at 40mph on a 3 month old motorcycle. Most sport riders have had at least one if not more. And the stunters seem to wreck every other day. Yet most live to do it again (and again, etc). Even a small parking lot goof can be potentially fatal to an unprotected head. Fall down at a stoplight and smack your melon on a car fender and you could be on your way to a hospital or the morgue. And helmets aren't much of a safety hazard, peripheral vision is barely affected with a well designed helmet (and not affected at all in most beanie types) and hearing can be helped once you are going faster than 30mph or so. At that speed the wind noise is enough to significantly reduce hearinig capability and after about 10 minutes your hearing will be impaired for the next few hours. Helmets block enough direct wind noise to help this significantly, leaving you better able to hear in traffic. And many touring riders wear ear plugs at highway speeds for additional noise reduction. The thing that gets to me about all of this is how you protest laws requiring helmets as reducing your freedom and enacting government control. Yet at the same time you have no issue with the requirements for brake lights (in most cases) turn signals, a specific motorcycle liscensce, and actually propose more intervention and control in the form of mandatory advanced rider training. I guess I just don't get it. I've watched and participated in this debate for a few years now and I'm going to level with you. This entire fight is about looks. Most of the badass bikers and squids don't like the way they look with a helmet. It interfears with their dangerous and devil may care attitudes. This is why they own a bike and they'll be damned if the govt is going to turn them respectable. They've seen too many bad biker flicks where the hero rides off into the sunset hair flapping in the breeze (most real bikers know enough to wear a bandana so the wind doesn't remove theirs). And for that we are willing to sit back and watch as countless newbies and RUB's kill themselves on our freeways and surface streets? There were 6 motorcycle fatalities in my town this year. All but one would have survived if they had had a helmet on. Unskilled rider or not.