tough motorcycle laws

[Dana]

I think it is severly unfair that a person with a motorcycle can ride at any speed so desired wearing no jacket or helmet with bare arms on a paved road and it is completely within the law while people that travel in a car seats, a dashboard, and airbags and have to wear our seat belts.


So it's okay to stop a man/woman in an automobile if they're not wearing a seatbelt but you can't hold a man liable who tips his bike, and practically skills himself alive and not fine him..... If he survives....

 

[dt3]

First, motorcycles aren't allowed to go "any speed", they're required to obey the speed limit like any other vehicle. I do think that if a state doesn't have helmet laws, it shouldn't have seatbelt laws either. If somebody's dumb enough to not wear a seatbelt or a helmet, then let them weed themselves out of the gene pool. Also, in Florida you can't be stopped for not wearing a seatbelt. It's a secondary offense, meaning they can give you a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt if you're pulled over for something else, but they can't pull you over if that's the only reason.

 

[AnitaBeer]

I think it's dumb to complain about two totally different types of things. A car HAS seatbelts available...a motorcycle does not. Nuff said. Can't make em wear a seatbelt when they can't even be used on the damn things.

 

[Burntblood]

i think it's only fair that people on motorcycles do as they please since they probably won't be alive very much longer.