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Originally Posted by Xaccers
So you've never had to park your bike a coupled of doors down and on a cold day put your helmet on as you left the house?
Or got off your bike just to get some cash out of an ouside ATM without taking your helmet off? That happens loads outside Asda over here.
Do you believe that doing the above should be illegal?
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As I said I use a flip helmet, when I'm off the bike my face is fully visible
What I am saying is that there are a lot of circumstances in which wearing a helmet just isn't suitable with a lot of them being in public areas.. I don't see any reason as to why there just couldn't be a blanket ban on covering up your full face in public unless you're following another law (for example riding a bike with a helmet) If the biker isn;t riding then I see no reason to leave the helmet on, though saying that a lot of couriers used to leave their helmet on in the rain purely to keep their heads dry
There is though one hell of a difference between stepping out of your house and covering your face for the explicit reason of simple covering your face than there is in stepping out in a full face helmet with the intent of riding a bike within the current laws.. One is for protection, the other is for some archaic religious misinterpretation and I'm extremely suprised that you're comparing the two..