WARNING: Copyright ©2019 Tim Kreitz. This article may not be copied, republished, or redistributed without express permission of the author. It's a pretty safe assertion to say that motorcyclists don't much like being told what to do. We tend to be iconoclasts, rebels and eccentrics of varying degrees. We're thrill seekers. We don't hop onto the back of fast, high-powered, 2-wheeled contraptions to feel safer. In some ways, we do it to experience those very zen moments and feelings that come from accepting and managing higher levels of risk. To paraphrase an old saying, by placing ourselves closer to the edge, greater is our awareness that we are alive. With that philosophy in mind, I conducted an online poll of motorcyclists from my 3,000-ish Facebook friends to see how they felt concerning a new bill recently introduced here in Texas (HB 748) which would close a twenty year-old loophole allowing most of the Star State's motorcyclists to ride without helmets. I pr