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First of all anyone who rides a motorcycle without a helmet is an idiot. Risk management is all a part of riding but taking that risk means you are an idiot.
I don't ride every day, I don't ride to work, I avoid heavy traffic areas most of the time, etc all as part of my risk management. I still could die any moment of course just as a 37 year old man did two or three weeks ago riding out on the same country roads that I usually do.
A guy in our church didn't make a curve a few weeks ago and while his whole face helmet saved his life he did not have on proper riding clothes so had a lot of skin scraped off his arm and ankle.
He was in Vanderbilt hospital for skin grafts and while the ones on his arm took beautifully his diabetes has caused complications on the ankle and it is not taking. He may have to use articial skin there and in any case is going to require a lot more surgery. Believe me I think about those things since I am almost 50, have a little arthritis in both shoulders, and a calcified tendon in the left one. I also don't recover near as well at this age as I did in my 20's from things.
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