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Reply #45 –
:iagree:

I just don't understand why someone would not wear one because it was uncomfortable or because they are pretty sure nothing will happen.

If I had to guess I would say that being ejected from the car, flying through the air, and skidding across asphalt would be slightly more uncomfortable.

:disappoin
-Jim
1987 Cougar LS 5.0

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Reply #46 –
maybe 50/50 but i think its up to me and not the govt to hold my hand

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Reply #47 –
on a motorcycle, alot of times the helmet will hurt you more then help. In low speeds they are good, but it can hurt your neck alot. I got plowed by a car doing 25 at a stoplight on my bike, it sucked, but I didnt even really get hurt. It is a real eye opener though. Minus a sore neck and some bruises I was fine. Also, on a motor cycle, it is alot easier to "weave" through traffice.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
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Reply #48 –
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alot of times the helmet will hurt you more then help. In low speeds they are good, but it can hurt your neck alot.


Maybe so, but a lot more times the helmet makes you not be dead.
-Jim
1987 Cougar LS 5.0

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Reply #49 –
Quote from: baXo
I wear it but i'm usually strapping it on as I'm pulling down the road



This is me, for sure. I usually don't think about it until I'm turning out of our subdivision, or a mile or so down the road. I hate the one in my wife's Explorer. I've never worn one as tight as it is across my shoulder / chest. It just doesn't give much.

Dave

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Reply #50 –
Unless of course a car pulls out in front of you, you T-bone him, and as you fly over the handle bars, your chinstrap catches on the handle bars, and removes your head from your shoulders. I've seen pictures, not a pretty site.:yuck:    A fluke, I'm sure, but still not pretty.

In PA they recently passed a no helmet law, but you need at least 2 yrs experience. They cited testing that showed motorcycle helmets don't really do much good over 35 mph. Thats what I heard anyway.

I personally don't have any experience riding aside from my bros quad around the yard a few times, but I think if I did start riding cycles I would wear a helmet. If nothing else, to keep the bugs outta my teeth, and to make sure that if I died riding, I would still make a good lookin corpse! :evilgrin: :tg:
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Reply #51 –
Quote from: Paul Flockhart
But, what about not wearing it at a stop light and then your car gets plowed from behind by some drunk moron doing 70 MPH?  What then?


That happened to my mother actually and after having a disc in her neck fused, sporatic pain in her arms, and constant back problems she still refuses to wear a seatbelt. When that car landed (as in the drunk sent in airborne) she was under the dashboard. I think she has a deathwish though, because she smokes constantly.

She actually keeps taking my car and complains that she doesn't have one, to which I say quit smoking, then you can afford a car, $5a day or everyother day adds up. That never works...

Anyways, I have taken this off topic, sorry.

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Reply #52 –
The comfort argument holds no water on this board. You're driving an 80's Ford. They have the seatbelts with the latch that lets you keep it loose from your body. Modern cars, sure. Constant tension belts are annoying and uncomfortable, but in these T-birds and Cougars, you can't even tell you're wearing a belt.

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Reply #53 –
While following a link to the "Christmas Lights" video...

http://media.mypartypost.com/shawn/videos/fastenseat.wmv
Death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.

1988 5.0 Bird, mostly stock, partly not, now gone to T-Bird heaven.
1990 Volvo 740GL. 114 tire-shredding horsies, baby!

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Reply #54 –
I hate that video, but that video is one of the reasons why I wear a seat belt now.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com
 

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Reply #55 –
Any story to go with that?
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Reply #56 –
no it just freaked me out.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

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Reply #57 –
wow! that makes you wear it now. but no matter what i still wear mine for that reason.
2001 Buick Regal LS (DD):hick:

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