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[awayatc]

Camo on a bike..... .?

so nobody can spot you when you are crawling in the greenery....?

handy when you come off after overcooking a cuntry corner....

[scumdog]

Camo on a bike..... .?

so nobody can spot you when you are crawling in the greenery....?

handy when you come off after overcooking a cuntry corner....

Hides the grime and oil-stains though...

[HenryDorsetCase]

what the fucking fuck you bitch ass faggots.

you want to wear camo? join the fucking army.

I am starting a club called the Bitch Ass Faggots. We have strict membership criteria but you can join if you want. And you get a pair of pants like these:

Yes, that's me, on my way to work this morning in my camo pants and lace up boots.


Its how we roll in the big city.

[Moi]

Have a pair of ordinary kevlar jeans from Lifestyle which have proved to be a great buy... have zips at the bottom of the legs to make putting on over boots easier... also have some genuine US Draggin jeans and rate the Lifestyle as almost as good...

My tuppence worth...

[mstriumph]

what the fucking fuck you bitch ass faggots.



you want to wear camo? join the fucking army.

yup!
also wondering WHY a motorcyclist (whose main problem on the road is that twerps in cages are seeing-deficient "sorry mate, didn't SEE you") would willingly wear something specifically designed to fade the wearer into the background??

What next? a cloak of invisibility? tsk, tsk!

[mstriumph]

I am starting a club called the Bitch Ass Faggots. We have strict membership criteria but you can join if you want. And you get a pair of pants like these:

Yes, that's me, on my way to work this morning in my camo pants and lace up boots.


Its how we roll in the big city.

that's bitch ARSE faggots to you, sir .... donkeys (I'm told) are very seldom batting for the opposition?

[AllanB]

This thread is a crack up. Especially the comments on the camo not being obvious enough. The most popular colour helmets is black, ditto riding gear - heck Camo is darn right bright.

I'm riding in black on black gear on a black bike on a black road. My helmet does have vivid green and orange graphics (on a black base)!

[HenryDorsetCase]

This thread is a crack up. Especially the comments on the camo not being obvious enough. The most popular colour helmets is black, ditto riding gear - heck Camo is darn right bright.

I'm riding in black on black gear on a black bike on a black road. My helmet does have vivid green and orange graphics (on a black base)!

are you Hotblack Desiato? Is this a stunt ship headed for the heart of the sun?




*I take it you have read Richard Adams' "Hitchhikers Guide" books? And if not, why not?

[Daffyd]

yup!
also wondering WHY a motorcyclist (whose main problem on the road is that twerps in cages are seeing-deficient "sorry mate, didn't SEE you") would willingly wear something specifically designed to fade the wearer into the background??

What next? a cloak of invisibility? tsk, tsk!

Absolutely spot on.

[Daffyd]

This thread is a crack up. Especially the comments on the camo not being obvious enough. The most popular colour helmets is black, ditto riding gear - heck Camo is darn right bright.

To which I would reply, "It's not true camo; rather camo STYLED clothing."

[AllanB]

are you Hotblack Desiato? Is this a stunt ship headed for the heart of the sun?




*I take it you have read Richard Adams' "Hitchhikers Guide" books? And if not, why not?

Haha - I am still searching for the answer to the universe.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Absolutely spot on.

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I was going to post my usual internet response to this (along the lines of "Fuck off Noddy") but I decided on a more thoughtful approach.

I presume that instead of the dark clothing I am wearing you favour, perhaps, brigher colours? Hi Viz (shudder) perhaps?

I am yet to be convinced of the benefits of the same. If there are benefits to same (please, provide me with some peer reviewed properly scientific evidence for my consideration) I suggest to you that those benefits are best applied above the waist: after all the sightline of the average motorist would seem to suggest that the torso and helmet would be the most visible part of the motorcyclist, not the trousers. So if there is an argument for it, it should be for jackets and helmets and backpacks. I believe that in the States where it was compulsory for motorcyclists to ride wearing hi vis on Army or Navy bases, it only applied to the upper body. I also believe that there was found to be no empirical evidence of any benefit for the rule and it has been abandoned. I also believe (particularly in this town) that Hi Viz makes you practically invisible. Because EVERYBODY's wearing that shit. Why even I, a moribund office dweller, own a fucking stupid orange hard hat, and a bright green Hi Viz vest. Stupid earthquakes.

Further, our glorious popo, paragons of safety and riding skill all, full of derring-do, and riding beached whales of white BMW's equipped with sirens and lights and whatnot, have hi-vis only on their upper (very manly, to a man) torsos.

My experience suggests to me that if a motorist fails to see a BRIGHT MOTHERFUCKING ORANGE* motorcycle, with two upgraded headlights chucking out many lumens of light, then the colour of the riders trousers will make vanishingly little difference. And I find the dark colour useful after I have shit myself because said drivers have failed to see me.


So there.


*technically it is "Matt Burnt Orange" but whatever.

[Daffyd]

[youtube]dXinJIvpPOo[/youtube]

I was going to post my usual internet response to this (along the lines of "Fuck off Noddy") but I decided on a more thoughtful approach.

I presume that instead of the dark clothing I am wearing you favour, perhaps, brigher colours? Hi Viz (shudder) perhaps?

I am yet to be convinced of the benefits of the same. If there are benefits to same (please, provide me with some peer reviewed properly scientific evidence for my consideration) I suggest to you that those benefits are best applied above the waist: after all the sightline of the average motorist would seem to suggest that the torso and helmet would be the most visible part of the motorcyclist, not the trousers. So if there is an argument for it, it should be for jackets and helmets and backpacks. I believe that in the States where it was compulsory for motorcyclists to ride wearing hi vis on Army or Navy bases, it only applied to the upper body. I also believe that there was found to be no empirical evidence of any benefit for the rule and it has been abandoned. I also believe (particularly in this town) that Hi Viz makes you practically invisible. Because EVERYBODY's wearing that shit. Why even I, a moribund office dweller, own a fucking stupid orange hard hat, and a bright green Hi Viz vest. Stupid earthquakes.

Further, our glorious popo, paragons of safety and riding skill all, full of derring-do, and riding beached whales of white BMW's equipped with sirens and lights and whatnot, have hi-vis only on their upper (very manly, to a man) torsos.

My experience suggests to me that if a motorist fails to see a BRIGHT MOTHERFUCKING ORANGE* motorcycle, with two upgraded headlights chucking out many lumens of light, then the colour of the riders trousers will make vanishingly little difference. And I find the dark colour useful after I have shit myself because said drivers have failed to see me.


So there.


*technically it is "Matt Burnt Orange" but whatever.

Hey, don't shoot the messenger!

I agree with you... don't know why you're getting your toga in a knot. I merely made the observation that the whole purpose of "camouflage" is to make the wearer [B]harder[B] to see. (The reason it was invented in the first place.) The matte burnt orange You mention is hardly camouflage; at a pinch it could be called "camo styled" as I said before. I still have visions of Spitfires painted so as to look like cloudy skies.
I might ad that my riding jacket is black and pants are Teknic kevlar lined jeans.

[AllanB]

I'm with HDC in Christchurch City - we are so bloody Hi-Vizzed up that someone riding in black actually may stand out from the crowd! Over saturation of anything kills the impact.

[Big Dog]

To which I would reply, "It's not true camo; rather camo STYLED clothing."

More accurately Disruptive Pattern Material.

I like my "acid" yellow DPM draggins. They are colourful enough that you see people notice you. Comfy as too. Just no armour.


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