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Photo of Don "PAPPY" Pittsley by Ed Amrstrong
How many of you remember Don “Pappy” Pittsley? He died in May, 1975 very unexpectedly. Without his early accomplishment in the helmet law fight, it is very possible today that
all states would still have the helmet
law. Pappy had a vision, and that was you could diddle with the bureaucrats
forever
and go forever
backwards; to accomplish a goal you had to change the
law through Congress. So this rider from Connecticut got his Congressman Mr.
McKinney to introduce a bill
in the US Congress that forbade the DOT to withhold money from states
without the helmet law. It took a long time after that beginning to see the
bill through and signed off, and the laws to fall in the states. Pappy never
saw that day. And today, few if any bikers are dealing with the Congress. We
must get back to the vision that Pappy
had. I took this photo of Pappy in his home less than a year before his
death He was making some last minute changes to his speech
for the upcoming hearing he had arranged over Connecticut’s helmet law.
His black Harley with skull and cross bones painted on the tank, was sitting
silent in his garage. Although Pappy didn’t live to see the outcome of his
initial work, we are living and it’s time we learned from Pappy. Stop
diddling with the bureaus and get to work on the Congressional level to get
some laws passed to limit the dictatorial authority of the bureaus.
This article is from Biker February 7, 1979
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