Riding in shorts

[Squeak the Rat]

Do what you like.

You take your risks and you pays your price.

However, the rewards for not wearing gear are minimal, the risks are high.

It's not my fault that an accident that I have affects your acc levy. It's the system's. Complain about the system, not my actions. While your at it complain that farm and offroad bikes contribute to the motorcycle crash stats which affect our levies.

[90s]

I have two pet hates:
People who have good gear but never wear it.

When I was a teen I lived in Brussels where teen culture was moped culture (or 50cc aprilia race reps for the flashest), road legal at 15. It was 'the law' that the large Moroccan group wore there mandatory crash helmet over their arms, like a shopping basket. This way if spotted by the police they would quickly put in on. Presumably when they saw an accident coming they would whip it on (but they must be able to do up the chinstrap faster than my record of 49 seconds).

As a more sinister aside in about '87 one such was pulled over for said offence, and as he was unlicenced 'sped' (ie. 50cc) away, whereby the cops shot him 7 times, once through the head. Ironically I reckon the helmet would have saved him ... twice over.

It was a huge case over the police (who were apparently not aiming at him, but accidently shot a moving target through the head), but no one mentioned the helmet problem in all that. Go figure.

[jade]

In the gold coast recently I was in a taxi van heading up the motorway, my friend was in the front and I was in the back facing backwards...
we were doing 100 when I spotted the light of a gsxr about a km back and was growing bigger rapidly,
This twat was in shorts, singlet - helmet and shoes riding a k5 yellow gixer thou.. well over 200km/h passing cars lane to lane..

All the gear all the time. although I must say I wear skateshoes 90pc of the time compared with boots

[Patch]

You can always tell the riders that have fallen off (come to grief, had an accident, injured themselves, or just plain listened to good advice) by the gear they wear and then . . . there are those that don't.

You will pay the price of your decision