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[ST] for Matt - And we thought the Reotheswhatever thing was over



>>> Donny, if you forgot your helmet, how long do you think it would take before you noticed something is missing? <<<

    This is embarrassing,... but you asked an honest question.  About once a week I start out without my helmet.  Sometimes I notice as soon as I leave the driveway and sometimes I get a few blocks down the road.  Occasionally (rarely) I'll get half-way across town before somebody yells "Where's your helmet!".  This in spite of the fact that I no longer tuck it away in the cabinet but leave it out in plain sight next to the bikes;...  I guess it'll never be a confirmed habit.  I rode about 15 years before I ever saw anybody with a helmet on the street and another 30 when I wore one only when I was going to be on a freeway (because the air is always so full of dirt) or it looked like rain.  Of course for the last decade+, our oppressive state government has made it compulsory here in Kalifornia, so I've had no choice.  However there is hope, a guy in Santa Cruz has been fighting this for years and it's now unenforceable in Santa Cruz County and may soon be declared unenforceab
 le state
 -wide.  They can still write a ticket (although they don't) but it's automatically dismissed by the court.  It all turns on the 'approved helmet' designation, of which there is none.  Since the state doesn't have a list no one can say what is and what isn't legal. 

                                 Ride fast and free;
                                                                     - - - - o&\o               dowgydoodoo  
       



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