Is anybody familiar with this?

[TXHawg]

I've been riding a long time, but I have never heard of the placing your helmet on the ground behind your bike thing.

Anybody else? I read about it here:

https://jalopnik.com/what-a-helmet-on-t ... 1851725919

[stoney]

I've only heard of this in recent years, and I've been riding a long time as well.

[Far Rider]

I've seen that in the past, I think I saw that in the Thunder Press when they were in print and handed out at a motorcycle dealership and some independent shops.

[TXHawg]

Just imagine putting your helmet back on after a couple of fire ants found their way into it. I know, that's a Texas problem.

Good to see ya Stoney!

[Margarita]

Nope. News to me. Wouldn't be much help in attracting attention of oncoming traffic since the view of the helmet would be blocked by the bike. Just one more chummy "Hey, we're real bikers" signal someone made up to feel cool.

I'm old. I'm cynical. Just pull out your phone and call for your mom, the tow truck, or the paramedics as needed.

[TXHawg]

Just pull out your phone and call for your mom, the tow truck, or the paramedics as needed.

That's what I would do. Maybe it was a thing back in @ScabbyDoo days, before cell phones and stuff.

[Margarita]

Maybe it was a thing back in @ScabbyDoo days, before cell phones and stuff.

I got the M on my license around 1972. Be careful making fun of old folks or we'll run ya down with our walkers. (I attach cards to my walker wheels with clothes pins so I can get that great Harley sound.)

Over the years, I did a fair amount of riding either on my own bike or looking at the back of some guy's head. Don't recall hearing anything about helmets used as a distress signal. Maybe it's a regional thing? Or a socioeconomic thing? Only folks with bikes that cost over $50,000 understand it?

[TXHawg]

Be careful making fun of old folks or we'll run ya down with our walkers.

I'll be 65 in a month. I figured that gave me the privilege of making old folks jokes. Though lately, with my 2nd back surgery, I've been feeling twice that.

(I attach cards to my walker wheels with clothes pins so I can get that great Harley sound.)

At least I'll hear you coming! They gave me a walker to take home from the hospital and told me I had to use it. Nope, I refuse to submit to such a thing.

Only folks with bikes that cost over $50,000 understand it?

Maybe it a sport=bike thing? I dunno. Probably wouldn't work very well in Texas where helmets are optional and at least half the riders I see are lidless.

[Margarita]

Respect your elders, child. You can start making old people jokes when you're seventy. Well... we might make a compassionate exception in view of your back problems making you feel older. Okay. Fine. You're officially an Old Person.

No helmet law in Wyoming, either. I always wore one, though. I got enough concussions falling off horses that it behooved me as a middle-aged person to keep the old noggin covered.

[TXHawg]

Behooved. I see what you did there

I believe in personal choice, so I don't judge anybody for not wearing a helmet. I choose to wear one to protect those one or two brain cells I have left.