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31 JUL

Poker Run to Benefit St Jude Children's Hospital

Wurtsboro, New York

2 SEP

Summertime Bikes & Blues Festival

Freeport, Texas

24 SEP

4th annual Running With The Daltons

Coffeyville, Kansas

Motorcycle Helmet Law

Motorcycle Helmet Law

To make motorcycle helmet use more widespread, in 1967 the federal government required states to implement motorcycle helmet law in order to be eligible for various federal safety programs and highway construction funding. Thusly motivated, by the early 1970s nearly all states had enacted universal motorcycle helmet laws.

In 1968, Michigan was the first state to repeal the legislation, ushering in a pattern of repeal, reenactment and amendment of motorcycle helmet law.

Currently, all states, save four, require some riders (persons under 15, 18, 19 or 21) or all riders to wear motorcycle helmets.