Thomas Bowdler would most disappointed to be associated with the Scots in any way, even a couple of centuries after he died.
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Thomas Bowdler would most disappointed to be associated with the Scots in any way, even a couple of centuries after he died.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Night rider
I would disagree. I believe the most important item for low speed riding is gloves. Certainly, the times I came off in my early days of riding, it was my hands that came into contact with the ground more frequently than my head.Originally Posted by James Deuce
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The expectation seems to be these days that you put gear on it will be all good, come what may. No gear and you die. The end result of an "accident" with gear and without gear is closer in terms of outcome than people would expect and after my last accident I would have to say that hard armour for road riders is a mistake as are the rigid sarcophagi boots and gloves have become.
The best performing piece of gear in my last accident were my gloves. Everything else failed spectacularly to work as the advertising on the box suggested it would. The gloves were a pair of Orina summer weight leather gloves with a CF knuckle protector in an external flap. Nonetheless the outside fingers of my right hand and the knuckles of my left were black and blue. Leather jacket and trousers split seams, boots appear to have wrecked my right ankle, not protected it, the HJC CF helmet split almost in two and all the hard armour in the leather jacket and trousers smashed and scooped teaspoon sized lumps of flesh out of my elbows and knees. I may as well have not had anything on my knees and elbows. They looked just like the aftermath of a 50 km/hr push bike accident
The only thing I may concede did something was the back protector and it didn't appear to be damaged at all.
75km/hr incident. Can't really say what happened. I do know that in my previous exciting incidents, I wasn't using hard armour and wasn't as damaged as I was in this one. All of them had significantly higher forces involved than the last one.
The idea is not to have the incident in the first place, then you don't have to crash test your stuff.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Born to be mild
I rode like that too over there but always felt a bit nervous. Turns out it's not just your noggin scrapping along the road that is a threat in Raro. We were talking to a local there and her nephew, while riding, had been hit in the swede by a coconut falling from a tree the week before and it cost hime 5 stitches and a night in their hospital.
Grow older but never grow up
Born to be mild
Oh, and THIS is riding with no gear...
(and yeah, sheepskin on the bike seat is very cosy when riding like this)
Grow older but never grow up
Loud and Uncouth
And won't show skid-marks...
Saying you're lots safer with All The Gear is like saying you're lots safer doing 99kph...
It will make a difference in both case if things go tits up however.
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
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The lanolin will make your bottom very soft too.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Deus ex ukulele
Ah, so it's the lanolin that's doing that
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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Was it a black sheep or is riding without gear scary?
I have evolved as a KB member.Now nothing I say should be taken seriously.
troglodytam extraordinaire
But then what was the quality of your Armour as we know that not all is made equal.
And what if you hadn't been wearing any protection?
Don't forget to bring a towel
Apparently the bike is meant to blow up into little pieces if the speed exceeds 105kmh. The government told me so.
Just faidin away!
Having still probably ridden more Km without safety gear than with it, I have to say that I prefer to use the safety gear!
The safety gear was not available at the cheap prices and high quality as it is today so to wear or not to wear is a no brainer for me!
I hate being "told" what to do and there are times and situations where the risk of accident is lower than the "compulsory" use dictates!
I would like to make that judgement for myself but the majority of times I would choose to use the the safety gear available.
Having said that, a guy I knew fell off his bike in his garage and killed himself by hitting his head on a little pipe sticking out of the floor for locking the doors!
So you never know what little surprise is going to get you, do you? I like to minimise the risk .... within reason!
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I already expounded on what I think woul dhave happened if I hadn't been wearing any protection - who knows? You can't tell.
As for the armour I'm not allowed to say anything out loud about that without risking flying monkeys throwing poop at me. The vendor is a touchy fucker at the best of times.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Don't forget to bring a towel
After having to pick stones out of my knees I don't ride with jeans any more. Lesson learnt.
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yes I understand completely. you have my sympathy.
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