New Helmet Law

Actually, it's a new helmet law regulation. Adding to the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 218 (FMVSS-218), it further cracks down on the wearing of novelty helmets. You know them as biker beanies, skid lids, or anti-ticket hats.

Katie, bar the door!

I'm sure a bunch of emails are flying around the on-line biker community. And so the standard response (yawn) will be calls to "action" to write your [fill in the blank] immediately. But the barn door was opened years ago, and the cows are long gone.

Bad legislation comes from bad legislators.

The same thing applies to the byproduct of bad legislation, which is regulation and enforcement of helmet laws. So the key is to nip oppressive regulation in the bud, before they turn into final rulings like FMVSS-218.

Consider this: About 10 years ago, an unknown community organizer was the only nominee for an unchallenged state senate seat ... by virtue of 237 petition signatures.

And now, he's President of the United States.

Fun Fact: About 75% of governors, Federal appointees (regulators), and congressmen started out as state legislators. And many of them won their first elections by a handful of votes.

Holler about laws and regulation, and nothing will change. We're too far downstream, and we have no leverage. It's a done deal.

But start at the headwaters of the state legislature, and the problem goes away. If bikers had gotten started about 10 years ago, we wouldn't even have FMVSS-218 now.

Nip them in the bud, bros.

Use the Repeal Machine Handbook (RepealMachine.com/handbook/).

See you on the campaign trail.

-Ride2Repeal@gmail.com