I’m standing in line at the bank. I’m wearing a leather racing jacket and holding a full face helmet. A man and a loan officer walk up to one of the teller windows. Seeing me, the woman says to her client, “Well I certainly hope YOU wear a helmet.”

The guy, wearing some Harley logo stuff, says loudly, “No way. Helmets make crashes worse. It’s been proven. They’re so heavy they make your head hit the pavement, no matter how you fall. I’ve fallen three times and haven’t hurt my head yet.”

As she passed me on the way back to her desk she said, “I’m glad you’re wearing one.”

To which I replied, “I also make a point of not falling down.”

Ha ha ha.

Seriously, where does that shit come from?

How has he never seen a motorcycle race? MotoGP riders crash at 150+ MPH on a pretty regular basis. Not one has ridden bareback, or bare-headed. It’s a pretty well-engineered sport so I think there’d be ample evidence for the theory that your head would float above your body as it slid along the pavement into a guardrail.