Gov. Snyder just signed the optional motorcycle helmet bill into law this morning

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My insurance was a lot less expensive when I lived in states without helmet laws. I moved back to Michigan and was shocked at my insurance premiums.

I've ridden motorcycles since I was 4 years old and I'm now in my 30s. I am a racer and with racing comes crashing. I will never ride without a helmet. With that, I would prefer it if the government did not force people to wear helmets or seatbelts.

[Rolfsy]

My insurance was a lot less expensive when I lived in states without helmet laws. I moved back to Michigan and was shocked at my insurance premiums.

Michiganders are forever reinventing the wheel. Other states have been through this - what happened? Wisconsin would be a similar rust belt state to look at, and they dropped helmets in the 70s. Pennsylvania went lid-free in the last few years.

When I rode, what worried me was being skinned in a lowsider. Or being crushed by a car. Or impaled on a fire hydrant. Again, maybe not statistically the real threats, but motorcycling is so inherently dangerous [[unlikley to be legal today if just invented, as others have said) that it really should be left to the organ donor, or banned outright.