T Shirt And Shorts

Ah, now I understand. Yes, you have a very valid point there and I'm struggling to argue with it, but give me time...

 

Agree to agree on what we agree on. Agree to disagree on what we don't agree on... Save yourself a lot of thinking time...

 

Agreed.

 

Ask yourself one question - would I let my child do this?

 

Why not, my dad did...

 

Just for the record, my brother, who has been involved with bikes as long as I have, wears full kit all the time. But then he is a tart.

 

At least nothing will fall out

 

That's where you get you attitude to safety from maybe. Did he teach you how to crash too? :frown:

 

No, I learned that myself. Got all my crashing out of the way while my bones were still soft.

 

Shit! Thats where I went wrong. I've done all my crashing now my bones are stiff and my muscles loose

 

I have a nutty French friend. He's probably not nutty in a French scheme of things, but the French tend to ride bikes in a reasonably nutty fashion, which is surely one reason (the overriding one) why they wipe themselves out so much.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, his brother borrowed his bike for quick hoon once - just to try it out. A few miles away from home he sticks it in a ditch. Naturally, he wasn't wearing much in the way of protection - it was only a quick blast.

Well, now he is minus one leg.

I have no idea whether leathers would have saved him, but I can't help thinking...


Quite some years ago, I was out with a mate who isn't a very good rider (it has to be said). He had a GSXR 750 at the time, so I didn't take my 916, but my 907ie so that I wouldn't scoot off into the distance. Anyway, we did a great road through a gorge on the French side of the lake. I got to a junction and waited for him. And waited and waited. Finally, I turned round to see what had happened. I found his GSXR half a mile up the road, lying on it's side, with a lorry behind it, unable to get past. The driver told me that my friend was somewhere down in the gorge. He's managed to cock up a corner and ploughed into the parapet, which he hit with his leg, and disappeared over the top of it. He'd caught hold of a tree on the way down. We phoned the SAMU and got him out. Open fracture of the leg, but the protection in his Dainese leathers saved it. Without a doubt, in jeans, he'd have been am amputee too. Several operations were necessary to save it.

Had he been a better rider, he wouldn't have fallen off. But it was hostile terrain. Just as well he was equipped for it.
He gave up biking after that - a wise decision.

 

Well, it was 2 stories in the end.

Sorry, can't help it. I'm just such a raconteur.

 

Maybe he had shaved his legs.

 

I've not seen a rider in a jacket all week in London (save for a guy in a suede jacket to match his scooter). Over 3 days I must have seen 500+ bikes - all in t-shirts/shirts. And yet if you believe everything said on these pages me and clueless are the exceptions to full cover...funny old world.