Yes helmets are good along with eye protection. I was out riding bikes with a buddy. Were heading up this trail. There is a branch about 2 inches stickiking out half way into the trail. It was broken off & I really didn't think much of it. I'm following my buddy. I see him catch a rut that sends him straight at it. I see his head snap back & him fall off his bike. I'm trying to keep from laughing cause it was funny as hell. I stop & get off to help him up before I do start laughing. He turn around & I see blood coming out his full face helmet. I cannot see the damage done to his right eye because of the blood. We of course were miles from my rig & any hospital. I give him my shirt & tell him to sit right there. I got my 90' toyota 4x4 up to him on those trails. Along with quite a few scratches. We then flew into town to a hospital. Amazingly his eye was fine & 13 stiches later all was well. He had on a pair of Oakleys that probably saved his eye. Kinda of a fluke of an accident but you never know when they will happen. So yes helmet goooooooooooooooood

 

I don't care who wears helmets and who doesn't.......population control as far as I'm concerned.

 

It's your life and you're entitled to your opinion, but I have to disagree with you. A friend of mine has a Grizzly 660 and the only thing he does is hunt with it. He has no helmet or any other protection whatsoever. He's not an ATV enthusiast, but simply uses it to go from one deer stand to the other. On December 26th of this past year, he was out in the woods in Tampa, Florida moving from stand to stand when he inched up a hill (at 1:30 in the morning) at a very, very low rate of speed. The next thing he knew, the Grizzly flipped backwards (approximately 600 pounds) and landed on him. As a result, he received a concussion, three fractured ribs and a punctured lung. Had it not been for his cell phone, he'd still be out there. It took 90 minutes for the rescue team to find him and another 30 minutes to get him extracted from the area. He's still recovering as we speak, but he still has three air pockets in his torso that haven't gone away yet. His doctors told him that most of his injuries could have been avoided with the use of some basic head and body protection. When he arrived, they didn't think he would live.

He wasn't quite walking to the mailbox to get his mail, but he wasn't going fast either.

What do you think about wearing a helmet now?

How about this, have you ever considered going slowly down a trail and have somebody who didn't see you slam into you? Sometimes it's not you that's creating the circumstance, but someone completely different.

My rule of thumb is: When you're on an ATV, always wear your helmet!

When the government starts to get involved in our sport and they start to tell us where we can and can't ride, how old we have to be in order to ride, what kind of licensing we'll need to own an ATV and so on, they'll do it based upon a law that they've passed by using statistics gathered from accidents and such. Don't give them any more ammunition to use against us. WEAR YOUR HELMET!!!

 

Always wear a helmet.

Just think, you might have not been around to ask such a question on this forum if it hadnt been for one in the past.

Helmet's allow you to take them of at the end of a good ride and talk about it afterward.

Remember when you would trip as a kid and bust your mouth on the ground? Just imagine the same thing at 40mph.

you couldnt stop from kissing the ground then what makes you think you can now.

 

I wear one 97% of the time, ever since i was doing some moderate trail riding and flipped the quad completly over- forwards, landing on my head, luckily I was wearing a helmet so the only injuries suffered was a bent steering stem on my EX.

 

TO HELMET.. No questions asked..

 

true that i would not be sitting here today if not for my brain bucket

 

Honestly listen to that one. I STILL don't know what made him put it on that ride but he did. Glad you did buddy.

 

This issue isn’t as black and white as some might think. In my opinion, it’s my body, my choice. I am hard of hearing, and when I wear a helmet and am deaf. I can’t tell you how many accidents I have avoided by other quads crossing my path by not wearing a helmet! I hear them, and I avoid them – like many of can when you wear a helmet. However, I do wear it when I dune drag or ride at high speeds in open terrain where there is no traffic. I believe you need to be an adult to understand and weigh the risks for that kind of choice - if you aren't an adult, then a helmet should be mandatory until you are. I cant begin to tell you how many people have lectured me on this subject and even blame guys like me that don’t wear a helmet, on the closure of areas to ride. I'll say it again, if the law allows for me to choose, it’s my choice. Guys that lecture me like that really show their ignorance and have no idea what they are talking about.

 

You're absolutely correct in your statement when you say that it's your choice! You can choose to wear a helmet or not, because the law doesn't mandate it. But to say that people are ignorant for lecturing you? That's not a correct statement. To be ignorant is to be uninformed. When people care enough to tell you to wear your helmet, they are not ignorant, they are merely expressing concern for your safety. The fact that you don't wear your helmet won't cause the riding areas to close. That is ignorant. If you were to get injured in an ATV-related accident and were not, by your choosing, wearing your helmet, then you would indeed be a contributing factor to the statistical base used by our government to implement such laws that hinder our very sport. If you are hard of hearing, you should still wear your helmet. At least when you do finally get into that accident that we all try to avoid, you'll have a better chance of living through it and not becoming another statistic. Ignorance has no place in this scenario.