So at 7:15a this morning I’m standing outside my house waiting for my friends to go for a ride. I live about 2 miles east of PCH. I kid you not…NO HELMET GUY comes riding up the road!!! I say to him, “you’re no helmet guy!” He pulls his ear phone out of his ear and says, “yes”. Like he knows he’s known as “ne helmet guy”. I tell him of this whole thread on ST and how I expressed my concern over him not wearing a helmet and how weird this is that I see him this morning. He introduces himself, Eri(c)(k) and I introduce myself and away we go. So you can now all rest assured there are no bad feeling between no helmet guy and I!! 
BTW- he was headed inland and had his helmet on the front of his bike, I assume for later use. I should also note upon closer look his hair wasn’t all that feathery.
I have never understood this. If you have your helmet why strap it on your bike rather than just wear it? I see this all the time with motorcycles too - people riding 70 down the highway with a helmet on the back of thier seat???
well I told no helmet guy to pay us a visit so maybe he’ll let us know of his reasoning. I told him although I didn’t agre with him not wearing a helmet it was ultimately his decision, so whatever. I’m thinking he thought, “who is is this crazy freak at 7 in the morning telling me about a chat forum.”
I never understand the ‘helmet on headset’ thing either, other than they saw it once on TV. As for the motorcyclist, sometimes a ride crosses state lines and goes from a ‘no helmet law’ state to one that does require a lid…or they are covering all bases, in case a potential passenger won’t ride without one. Personally, I never leave the driveway without a helmet on my head, whether I’m powered by two legs or two cylinders.
The problem of being on ST for too long is:
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You ASSUME that everybody knows what it is.
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You talk to everyone like they know you from ST.
Come on,‘fess up… you went to him and said "Hi, I’m Kestrelkerri from Slowtwitch!’…
hahaha, I’ve done that on more than one occasion.
I really surprised Rob (objectiveous) just last week in San Diego when I just walked up to him unplanned in a restaurant and said, “You must be Rob from slowtwitch. I’m Jtaylor1024, nice to meet you”.
He said, how did you know it was me? Like it’s hard to spot an st’er at a computer programming conference?
That’s cool Kerri. Did he show you his helmet?
I’ve done it. Sometimes after our big group roadie ride my helmet is dripping wet with sweat and I just can’t bring myself to put it on my nearly bald head for the ride home. It’s only a 3 mile easy ride through the neighborhood and it feels so good! - And yes, I’m aware I could still have an accident.
I am reminded about the experience of a friend, a many time IM competitor, who rides in the Angeles Crest every weekend and several times a week before IMC. In a recent century, that he was using as a training ride, he pulled into the first rest stop and hit a little gravel and sand, that he hadn’t noticed, and didn’t expect at a rest stop. His bike went up and he went down on his ribs and his head. His helmet was a mess, and his ribs were cracked, but he was fine, otherwise, and he finished. OUCH! He was going less than 6-7 mph. It can happen anytime to any-ONE.
…so the big question is whether the two of you ride off into the sunset, one wearing helmet one without to a future of eternal bliss… 
I see a closER relationship from this…
- kd
I don’t know you’re real name, so I was like “there’s this other guy who said he rides with you sometimes and I think he rides a kestrel.” He was just nodding his head and looking at me like I was completely nuts. 
The ‘other guy’ is half-Asian, white guy with blue-eyes, dark hair. Wears a ‘Team Labor’ kit.
I’m coming off a back-injury but will be on PCH tomorrow morning ~ 0700 on my KT (with Trispoke on rear) for a slow ride to UCSD and back.
- kd
MY MEETING WITH NO HELMET GUY
Let me guess - he was an “expert” on traumatic head injury and concussions!
Fleck
Well KK,is he gay?
I wonder what people did for thousands of years before some guy won a Nobel prize for helmets…they did save humantiy didnt they?
That is unless you believe in some form of Darwinian Natural Selection…
“If you’re too stupid to wear a helmet then you deserve what you get?”
Still, I’m sure there are some on this forum who don’t so I’ll grab my flame suit before someone gives me a whuppin…
I was wondering that myself, having grown up in the pre-helmet era and having crashed numerous times. Somehow, since going to helmets many years ago, every crash I’ve had since has involved helmet damage yet my previous crashes never involved any significant contact between my melon and any hard or immovable objects. Curious…
“He pulls his ear phone out of his ear…”
Why am I not surprised that a guy who doesn’t understand the need to protect his melon also doesn’t understand the need to hear what’s going on around him. I’m glad he doesn’t ride in my 'hood.
“yet my previous crashes never involved any significant contact between my melon and any hard or immovable objects. Curious…”
Of course you might not remember that now would you