I will go to the local store at times or shoot to work both about 5 mins away from me with out gear but if im heading out to play its ATGATT! Gloves are my #2 requirement next to my lid.
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I agree with the gloves, I rarely wore them when I started and then after reading something about the rate of blood you could lose through your hands I started wearing them religiously. Feel naked without them now.
As for helmets, wearing a helmet all of the time even got me wearing a bicycle helmet when I am bicycling into work. Suddenly I just felt nervous without one... Maybe I'm just starting to become a conservative old man at 27...
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Originally posted by KrAzE View Postevery single person I have seen riding two up doesnt wear any kind of gear...I would feel so bad if the person riding with me got hurt..I dont understand how others wouldnt.
I wont let anyone on the back of my bike. I put a cargo net on the back usually and say theres no rear seat
They are both going to be okay, she cracked her skull and has road rash.
He he is a little better shape, but he said his arm is hamburger meat. I guess he doesnt have medical insurance so the emergency room shooed him out pretty quick.
Bike is torn up on one side. Broken windscreen, and mirror. A cop found the guage cluster 100 feet down the road in perfect shape.
Thats why I wear gear.Originally posted by arsenic93 octane fuel and K&N pod filters rock.
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Originally posted by scottynoface View PostRiding without gloves drives me insane.Originally posted by Edbean View PostSAME HERE!!! ive been wearing just a helmet jeans and boots lately and my friends ask me why im wearing gloves w/ no jacket... it just feels weird without them in between me and the controls.
Originally posted by HemiKat View PostSaw a guy today.... Honda 929, Guy in front, shorts, tennis shoes, sunglasses.... all he had, no gloves, helmet or shirt! Girl on back, tennis shoes, shorts and a tank top.... thats it.
I dont have "hobbies" I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set....
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If I'm just riding around close to home(out in the country with no traffic at all), I will ride in whatever I have on, usually jeans (have worns shorts on occasion but not a habit) and either a wife beater or T-shirt, whatever shoes or boots I have on at the time, helmet and gloves. If I am going to town where there's traffic, and I expect to be hitting higher speeds on the way, I make sure I have my boots, jeans, and jacket too. Once I get my leathers, I will be wearing them any time I go further than 5 miles from the house.John,
'05 GSXR750, '86 FZX700 Fazer, wifes bike '02 R6
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Get asked why I wear "my hot *** leather , hot *** gloves, and hot *** lid in the summer... its so nice out"
I reply... I can deal with being uncomfortable... not being unprepared...
I've rode with out my gear, just to see how it feels, etc. It just dont feel right. Like I'm egging a accident on or something.... hahaha! Fageddabouditt!SAV
Head up, eyes open... always!!!
Be... and be not afraid.
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Originally posted by Spraguepsycho1 View PostIf I'm just riding around close to home(out in the country with no traffic at all), I will ride in whatever I have on, usually jeans (have worns shorts on occasion but not a habit) and either a wife beater or T-shirt, whatever shoes or boots I have on at the time, helmet and gloves. If I am going to town where there's traffic, and I expect to be hitting higher speeds on the way, I make sure I have my boots, jeans, and jacket too. Once I get my leathers, I will be wearing them any time I go further than 5 miles from the house.
Why tiptoe through life cautiously, only to arrive at deaths door safely?
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I have to wear gear.. even if im sweating my *** off!! What kills me is when I used to go to bike nites in ATL there would be sssssooooooooooooooooooo many groupie girls with nearly nothing on... getting on the back of these bikes!!! I wasn't even like that before I got my bike... I wore gear even as a passenger!! There is no tube steak in the world that is worth me getting my a$$ rashed!!!With a hip hop the hippie to the hippie
The hip hip a hop a you don't stop the rockin
To the bang bang boogie
Say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie the beat
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Originally posted by ferrucci86 View Posti always wear gloves and helment, and glasses under helment b/c i like my visor up and you need eye protection, i have not lic. so i have to follow law,With a hip hop the hippie to the hippie
The hip hip a hop a you don't stop the rockin
To the bang bang boogie
Say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie the beat
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people ask me all the time why I wear my mesh jacket when it's 100 degrees out and humid.
I always say the same thing..."the pavement is still really hard when it's hot"
Besides, my mesh jacket flows air alright...not quite as good as being naked, but after you've had roadrash, you're willing to sweat a little more to avoid it next time.
As for the ride distance thing...I think all 3 of my wrecks (all pretty minor) were within 1 mile of my house (one of them was within 20 yards of my house). All of them were someone elses fault. Distance doesn't really concern me, accidents happen everywhere. wear your gear to check your mailbox if you have to!
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