Hardcore Biker
On a related note, I am trying to get some samples of garments that are designed for cooling people working in hot conditions....they are suitable for wearing under bike gear and should be affordable.....just waiting for samples to try out then I'll post more!
Deus ex ukulele
Shift does a most excellent mesh jacket for under $200. It has all the armour in all the right places too (I "road" tested one on Boxing Day)...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Down with bouncing!
Originally Posted by rasty
What a great piece of logic you got there.
Can I go give my neighbour a punch in the head because after all, there are worse things that I could have done so "minor" things should be ignored.
At the end of the day, the profile of the biker has to improve. Increasingly we aer being targetted. Recently on the news with "some guy" doing 330k/hr. Bitching about bikes on the caining it on the twisties. Having idiots running round with no gear on is just something else to bitch at.
Forum whore
Followed a dude over the bridge this evening - He was on a harley but shit - it looked like a mini chopper - reckon he was about 25 stone!....anyway - all the bikey leather, chaps, jacket, gloves, black helmet and all.....and a pair of open toed sandals!!! Exposing his pinkies - or in this case - brownies.....on his highway pegs.
Looked cool...
Fair cracked me up .
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
wheelchair rookie
Ok point taken.
Indeed they are and aint it great,another thought, maybe idiots should be not allowed to breedPeople on both sides of this discussion seem to be doing that.....(see quote above!)
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Those who insist on perfect safety, don't have the balls to live in the real world.
Retired
Hitcher - I label thee a hypocrite. I've seen you ride in jeans. That's not full gear. When you ass off, I'm be one of the taxpayers who picks up the bill for your new legs cos you weren't wearing full armour.
Where do you draw the line at what is acceptable? Gloves? Pants? Boots? What about back protectors? Reals ones work a shit load better than those piddly ones that come standard equipment.
So if we're all being f***ing PC today, hands up all the sensible folk who always ALWAYS ride with FULL gear? I'd be surprised if anyone here can.
Shorts and T, done it myself. Don't make a habit of it, don't practice wheelies in it either, but yep I've probably broken a few speed limits, split a few cars and ridden a few kilometres in shorts and T. What's that saying about throwing stones?
"You, Madboy, are the Uncooked Pork Sausage of Sausage Beasts. With extra herbs."
- Jim2 c2006
Moped rider
Ask anyone in a cage what they think is stupid behaviour by a bike rider and I bet ihat what the guy is wearing or not wearing doesn't even get a mention.
Hardcore Biker
Well I had an accident today, low sided the bike, luckely I was wearing full gear and escaped without any injury, I'll never ride without it again.
Just a couple of rips in the pants, but I'll sew a bit of leather over the whole.
Two Stroke, the pinnacle of engine design
Yee haaaa
Sorry to hear it, but good you're OK. How's the bike? How did it happen? At least it didn't happen on the way home from Woodstock yesterday.
The views expressed above may not match yours - But that's the reason my Dad went to war - wasn't it?
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, .... but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out,... shouting "man, what a ride"!!!
Deus ex ukulele
Them's called "Draggins". I've had the same pair down the road twice -- once underneath 250-odd kg of Kawasaki ZRX1200R -- with narry a mark or tear to show for it. A bit of hip armour could have been appreciated on both occasions though...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Kiwi gone Walkabout
Sounds good to me.. perhaps all the do gooders should put their money where their mouths are,when they see someone riding in gear they do not aprove of... turn around,follow the person until you get a chance to lecture them on their wrong doing according to you........ I see people dressed in all manner of attire,including jeans and ankle length boots,that is their perogotive. ?...... I guess it is a case of full armoured suit or nothing.
Forum whore
Nice helmet.
Fair weather rider
Ok heres my 5 cent worth:
Seen last week in a Napier suburb, a geeser on an old triumph dressed "light" and in front of him he had a toddler sitting halve on the tank no helmet either.
Sunday: Another idiot: Motocrossbike, on his way to a grassy reserve, T-shirt,shorts,barefoot, No helmet,and yes, you guessed it, about a 2 year old girl in front of him dressed in a light skirt......................................
Question: Are we allowed to run them over ???????????
Too old to die
On a similar vein: people should only ride on bikes I approve of.
The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight underpants.
eschew obsification...
...... i don't believe people should be permitted to wear beige..... very depressing to look at, is beige......
...........oh - and parents that dress their children in synthetic-fibre underwear - don't the idiots REALISE how unhealthy
that can be next to the skin in a warm damp climate?
uh - and people who eat junkfood - is it pc here to despise people who eat junkfood? ....... or are we only permitted to despise people
who excercise their democratic right to wear wat the hell they choose on their bike??
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Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons....... - Honore de Balzac
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