Other bikers you want to "knock" sense into

[motorbyclist]

personally i think the driving age should be raised to at least 18....
a 15 year old can go out and buy a zxr250 or nsr 250.
they are not developed enough mentally to understand the danger they are in.
if i had got a zxr250 at 15 i would not have lived to 16.
raise the driving age.

looking at your riding, i have no doubt in my mind that you believe what you're saying

but i have seen many a rider, including myself, who both didn't buy a zxr or nsr 250, and rode reasonably sensibly without incident

while shifting the licence further back to 16 would be ok, and make it less appealing to leave school, moving the licence to 18 is a real hinderance to young people in the workforce simply for the sake of a few idiots with a deathwish who will still have a deathwish once they're 18

[justsomeguy]

Personally I wish:

• Helmets were legally made optional.
• The pictures of disease were taken off cigarette boxes.
• "DO NOT DRINK" warnings were taken off poisonous liquid bottles, leave the poison signs on though.

[motorbyclist]

As I said, I can just imagine you are one of those parents that defends and makes excuses for your kids no matter what shit they do.

man i hate people like that, the kids are usually little shits too

and you're right, the main point of that post it that those kids nearly took out a 3rd biker. i would've given them an earful, but mainly about their riding with only a brief mention about the gear

Race quality gear saved my life.

The uniform for bikers here in Sydney (on the street) is t-shirt, shorts, helmet - that's it. The chicks wear the shortest of shorts.

i've seen around the university girls wearing next to nothing doubled up on scooters only one of which has a helmet and it's open face too.

i bet they wouldn't run into a brick wall with that helmet on, so why ride with an open one instead of a full face?

[MadDuck]

i try and stoppie

You try? damn thought you might have mastered it by now Boomer

i just dont understand how a GN rider can afford jandals (not jandles) dammit. Warehouse must have a sale on or maybe they sold out of them pink plastic things

[Happybug]

Unfortunately we can't put experience into someone elses head. Yep, i've got the scars to prove that leathers are cheaper than skin and helmets are cheaper than heads - and a damn sight less painful. But, if he was my kid, and i'd done the lecture, then i'm not sure there's any way of making them wear other gear? I'm about to start teaching my daughter to ride, and i personally always wear hat, jacket, boots, gloves as a minimum and it's what i'm teaching her. Anything further than around town commuting and it's pants too. Personal preference i guess, but i'm also guessing those who don't haven't yet experienced the pain of an accident when they were underdressed. And thinking it won't happen to me is just bullshit head in the sand.

[boomer]

so why ride with an open one instead of a full face?

BECAUSE, and its a sad day when this has to be pointed out to someone, it's legislated that to ride a motorcycle you must wear a helmet CE approved.

It just so happens that open faced helmets are CE approved too.

You'll also find that some people drive in cars with less than adequate crumple zone protection as laid down by the EEC.

Get a grip and live your own life and let others do as they please!!

[Headbanger]

No thanks; but i'd like a million dollars and i'd also like to go on a website i've frequented for a while now, without having to put up with tards like the guys who started this thread or YOU who added fuel!

Unlike yourself, who hasn't posted.

Oh wait.

[boomer]

You try? damn thought you might have mastered it by now Boomer

i just dont understand how a GN rider can afford jandals (not jandles) dammit. Warehouse must have a sale on or maybe they sold out of them pink plastic things

i gave up after seeing what happened to MR

ps...
I'm still waiting for the PM's!

[boomer]

Headbangers not quite brave enough for a chat but he plucked up enough courage to have a snipe.... via Rep


Rep comment deleted

[Headbanger]

Who said anything about a chat?

Anyway, You got a green rep and a truthful comment, whats your problem?

Are you craving attention?

[PrincessBandit]

BECAUSE, and its a sad day when this has to be pointed out to someone, it's legislated that to ride a motorcycle you must wear a helmet CE approved.

It just so happens that open faced helmets are CE approved too.

You'll also find that some people drive in cars with less than adequate crumple zone protection as laid down by the EEC.

Get a grip and live your own life and let others do as they please!!

I'd actually quite like to try riding without a helmet, just to see what it was like, but know that if my cranial contents got splattered over the road it would be my own fault (regardless of whether i caused the accident or not); in the same way I resisted for a long time wearing a seatbelt while driving (I am old enough that for the first many years of my driving life seatbelts were not compulsory to wear) but now I do, both for safety and a lack of desire to part with hard earned $ for fines. Back to helmets though, with some of the hard, high speed projectiles i've had smack into my visor I've just been glad my visor was down when they struck. If others are able to cope with that, then good for them, let them wear what they prefer. Me, I'm just a chicken who would rather let a visor take the crap instead of my face. Eeeewwww.

[Swoop]

Ooh good. A gear thread. We don't get enough of these in summer.

[RDJ]

May I suggest a KB variation of Godwins Law *

Tournette's Corollary of Godwin's Law

You can tell when a KB thread hits rock bottom when one of the participants questions / abuses another's ancestry, descendants, sexual orientation, legitimacy, bike, clothing, helmet, speed, waving habits and leather:chrome quotient.

(Actually, there is probably little point - most threads would hit rock bottom in ~1.3 pages... )


* formulated by Richard Sexton (in ? 1989): "You can tell when a USENET discussion is getting old when one of the participants drags out Hitler and the Nazis".

[ital916]

I would've pointed the lads in the direction of the ride2die website, that will make them wear all the gear all the time and stop riding like dickheads! It's a personal decision with gear but the minimum gear for me is bike boots, armoured pants, cordura armoured jacket, full face helmet, race gloves and a back protector. No less, no matter how hot it is, i'd rather suffer the heat than the road rash. Watch the video, how not to take a corner on youtube by the way..bloody idiots tham loonies in the vid.*It's the video taken from a truck*

[Patch]

I would've pointed the lads in the direction of the ride2die website, that will make them wear all the gear all the time and stop riding like dickheads! It's a personal decision with gear but the minimum gear for me is bike boots, armoured pants, cordura armoured jacket, full face helmet, race gloves and a back protector. No less, no matter how hot it is, i'd rather suffer the heat than the road rash. Watch the video, how not to take a corner on youtube by the way..bloody idiots tham loonies in the vid.*It's the video taken from a truck*

best you have a word to the knob in the T-shirt on the (i think) little blade, who had stopped with someone else, a GN 2 fiddy and a trike (who incidentally, doesn't like being followed) at Kawakawa Bay around 2.30pmish today