Riding without a helmet

[Abaaba]

As the title says, I have seen few grown-up men riding their bikes without a helmet and wondered if there was an exception to the helmet law min in motorcycles.........these were not your everyday teens messing about with their 50cc or 125cc, they were on a big bikes without L plates (so I am assuming they got full A licences)........Has anyone else noticed that?


yes, since I joines the crew I seem to be admiring every motorbike that passes whilst driving

[MarJay]

No, it sticks out like a sore thumb and it's an easy nick for a copper with monthly targets to meet.

It's also desperately stupid.

Last time I saw an adult with no lid on a big bike on the road was about 2007, and he caused something of a stir, and got me banned from a local national trust property because they thought it was me. Despite me owning a red motorcycle and said idiot was riding a blue GSXR...
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[Rob W]

They're probably middle aged scrotes riding nicked bikes without a lid while they pop out for some skag, because they know the law will do absolutely fuck all to them if they get caught.
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[stinkwheel]

Sikhs have an exemption if they are wearing a turban.
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[struan80]

[tatters]

Went without one once in Morocco for a few hours as at the time it wasn't required then realized it was not a good idea if l end up bashing my head on a rock.

I got caught in a small town in Ontario Canada driving across the road from a motel to a petrol station holding the helmet in one hand and was caught by a cop. l was on a UK plated bike and lied to him that helmets were optional in the UK (like some of the USA). Got away with a lecturer on Ontario helmet laws and no fine...
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[stinkwheel]

It's quite liberating riding with no lid. I didn't wear one the whole time I was on holiday in Florida. Hawaiian shirt, shorts, wrap-arounds and good sunscreen. Done it on islands in the Uk where no licence is required too.

if you ride at sustained high speeds with no lid on, your hair automatically arranges itself into a 60's style bikers quiff.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Abaaba]

[davebike]

See it quite a lot in South London also no no plate and I expect not their bike!
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[xX-Alex-Xx]

I wonder how many decided to wear helmets after this? Probably not many....

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/motorcyclist-killed-in-anti-helmet-rally-1.1113750
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[xX-Alex-Xx]

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[WD Forte]

There is quite a large Asian and Sikh community in Leicester
so you'd probably see more helmetless motorbike riders there then places with a small Asian community.
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[bhinso]

[Bhud]

I don't live as far from London as I sometimes would like, and I used to see the occasional turbanned Sikh out on a ride, sometimes. Always either a new sportsbike, or a chromed-out Harley or Enfield, unfortunately. That was up until a few years ago. I haven't seen any since then (which doesn't really mean anything). I don't think bikes really figure much in the upbringing/childhood of most UK-born-and-domiciled-since-birth Asians, in general. They seem to be more into cars, especially older BMW cars, pimped out. What you see in your childhood leaves an imprint upon you. Just putting myself in their shoes, if I lived in a sort of ghettoised west London bubble all my life, how would I be into anything but cars? I wouldn't know or care about bikes at all, much less the 80s and 90s ones. I saw a brief documentary on the car culture of British Sikhs recently, and it was interesting. Whatever their uncles and dads did in the 80s and 90s, they idolised. Plus there's a link to Kenyan motorsports, too. It's nice, but I was left with an impression of "big fat gypsy wedding", i.e. it's about a sense of personal projection of look-at-me style, which might explain the occasional glimpse of turbanned R1 rider, Harleyist, etc. Anyway, each to their own.

[MCN]

Not wearing a helmet whilst riding a motorcycle on public roads in UK is just Sikh.
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[Freddyfruitba...]

[recman]

[to v or not to v]

i would definitely ride without a helmet in good weather if it were legal.
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