Like others in here I was riding motorcycle before the helmet law came out and I was absolutely fuming that some 'Home Office' arsehole said 'From now on you will wear a bucket on your head whilst riding a motorcycle' (Unless your a Sikh).
That was back then, thinking about it now as a reasonably responsible adult (Mmmm I should have put a reasonabley just before the word adult in there) of course it was a good law, it has saved many, many lives and many 100's of thousands of pounds to the NHS and numerous families lots of grief and heartache.
I hanker back to my good old days when I was 16 to 40 so I still wear my old Punk/Brando style leather jacket with my old 59 Club badges on it and jeans, I often wear a white or blue silk scarf under the lapels of my jacket (Aviator scarf)
I have a LS2 Convert Helmet that open right up at the front and folds over the back of the helmet to make a open face helmet (Bright Yellow), my jeans a Kevlar jeans, sports boots and leather gloves
A fluorescent Frank Thomas waistcoat, sure when it get hot I wear a breathable Cordura jacket with the lining removed but still wear the waistcoat..
Like others in hear I live only a hard stones throw from Pompey and I have seen guys on 1000cc machines and bigger filtering much to fast on the road from Southsea up to the A3 wearing less than I would wear on the beach, thinking to myself if they loss the bike and throw it up the road or some one changes lane while they are filtering at 40 plus miles an hours there is going to be an awful lot of road rash in Pompey and QA hospital.