THE BEAT GOES ON
Does the “D.C.” following the name of the nation’s capital stand for “demo city”? It sure did on “National No Helmet Day,” when 400 bikers on their customized Triumphs, Harleys and BSAs roared up and down the streets of Washington D.C. This was no film, these were, the real things who terrorize and destroy small towns and B-movies.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Hots Off to the Hell's Angel’s
Does the “D.C.” following the name of the nation’s capital stand for “demo city”? It sure did on “National No Helmet Day,” when 400 bikers on their customized Triumphs, Harleys and BSAs roared up and down the streets of Washington D.C. This was no film, these were, the real things who terrorize and destroy small towns and B-movies. They drove sans helmets through the sightseeing area of downtown, tourists gawking, undercover cops snapping pictures and noting license numbers.
Finally the bikers regrouped at the Washington monument grounds. The demonstrators, by this time boozing it up next to their spiffy machines, want the Supreme Court to hear antihelmet cases. Each time a case reaches them, the bikers say, the Court refuses to hear it. Twenty state supreme courts have upheld helmet laws; Illinois’ supreme court held that its law was unconstitutional. Helmet laws, said spokesbiker Gary Zager of Hillcrest Heights, Md., are en-
forced in all but four states.