Breaking news! Jeans will protect your skin in a crash!

[NordieBoy]

I crashed about half a dozen times in my first two years of riding, all at around 50 to 60kph. All I got was minor grazing in one or two tiny spots i.e. nothing to worry about. What was I wearing? Boots, jeans, PVC jacket, gloves and helmet.

Yep. Highsided (wet tar, slip-grip) the scooter several times as a kid in shorts, t-shirt, sneakers, helmet.
Wore a hole in a sneaker once.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Has anybody else seen these around?

It's amazing to see how they promote safety on scooters, it gets worse and worse!
Might just sell my leathers and buy a few good pairs of jeans then huh.

There are some quite graphic ones in Melbourne, showing an office type girlie in a dress, blouse, some sort of office-y jacket and work shoes and one of those funky half face helmets (no gloves either IIRC) lying on the road a wee way away from her scooter. I thought it was a good ad: because you see THAT girl, dressed THAT way everywhere.

Presumably the ad you're referring to is our version of that. I ride my scooter to work quite a bit, and usually am wearing jeans (and a proper motorcycle jacket, good gloves. full face helmet, and boots).

jeans > bare legs any day

[grantnz]

Has anybody else seen these around?

It's amazing to see how they promote safety on scooters, it gets worse and worse!
Might just sell my leathers and buy a few good pairs of jeans then huh.

yeah...jeans.

[p.dath]

I've emailed Jason Hope at ACC about the advertising, and suggesting that promoting the use of ordinary denim for safety clothing is inappropriate.

[dmc]

Yep. Highsided (wet tar, slip-grip) the scooter several times as a kid in shorts, t-shirt, sneakers, helmet.
Wore a hole in a sneaker once.

Until your luck runs out, I highsided on a roundabout that had the surface with the grooves cut in it and it destroyed my jeans and textile jacket, not to mention making a mess of me.

[hellokitty]

I was following a bike today and noticed the pillion wearing socks only, NO SHOES!!!!!
Bad enough that it was 2 largish people on a little 400cc sports bike... but seriously??? No shoes???

[Ragingrob]

I was following a bike today and noticed the pillion wearing socks only, NO SHOES!!!!!
Bad enough that it was 2 largish people on a little 400cc sports bike... but seriously??? No shoes???

2 largish people on a 400cc... I've gone that speed with no shoes on my push bike many times

[NordieBoy]

yeah...jeans.

Was he injured?

[MIXONE]

I was following a bike today and noticed the pillion wearing socks only, NO SHOES!!!!!
Bad enough that it was 2 largish people on a little 400cc sports bike... but seriously??? No shoes???

I saw a girlie on a scooter here in Welly the other day wearing a short skirt and no shoes either.Obviously her pantyhose where kevlar eh.Made me shudder with the though of her coming a cropper.

[steve_t]

I saw a girlie on a scooter here in Welly the other day wearing a short skirt and no shoes either.Obviously her pantyhose where kevlar eh.Made me shudder with the though of her coming a cropper.

Kevlar panty hose for chicks? Badass!

[jazfender]

I've emailed Jason Hope at ACC about the advertising, and suggesting that promoting the use of ordinary denim for safety clothing is inappropriate.

O brave defender of virtue!

[caseye]

Yep you'd never get into em then! (Kevlar Pantyho's, that is)
I too saw such an add recently and wondered at the insanity of it.
If scooter riders are such a problem that they spend OUR money on advertising to make them gear up seems strange to me that us ordinary motorcyclists as opposed to scooter riders don't seem to be the problem that it has been made out to be.Robbing Peter to pay Paul it seems.
I want my MSL money back and I want scooters declared "Far more dangerous than motorbikes".

[Berries]

I saw a girlie on a scooter here in Welly the other day wearing a short skirt and no shoes either.Obviously her pantyhose where kevlar eh.Made me shudder with the though of her coming a cropper.

Saw something similar in Dunedin the other day. Made me shudder, but for different reasons.

I guess once we have forced scooterists to ATGATT and wear hi-viz we can focus our attention on cyclists.

[Tigadee]

Yep you'd never get into em then! (Kevlar Pantyho's, that is)

What, didn't you know? They're teflon-coated on the inside...

Hey that's an idea: Telfon-coated jeans - if you get thrown off your bike or scooter, you can still slide your way to your destination...

Saw something similar in Dunedin the other day. Made me shudder, but for different reasons.

[st00ji]

my understanding was that a fixed portion of the ACC being levied on all motorbikes was going towards this safety business, $10 per bike per year or whatever. the rest of your excessive charge is (in theory at least) being used to somewhat offset the amount of money being spent on patching up people falling off their bikes during the coro GP and so on.

so complaints about 'my' money being spent on 'their' advertising seem somewhat uninformed.

while im generally dismayed by the lack of gear most scooter riders wear, some part of me rebels at the idea of no more office girls in short skirts on scooters :P

although, i did pull up at the lights the other morning next to a nice young lady on a street magic wearing close fitting gear.

tried to sell the mrs on a scooter again that night!