On the first sign of summer.....

[Easter Bunny]

...the knobs are out!
https://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii284/mkbiker/knobonabike.jpg

spotted this guy on Thursday in Holloway, if his attire wasnt bad enough check out the trailing centre stand
Mmmmm would you like a nice red colour to go with those legs?
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[soforene]

Indeedy.
I saw a comely young wnech of about 18 - 20 yesterday whizzing along on her 125.
Looked very cool in a small T shirt and jeans (No gloves) but I just imagined the mess that pretty skin would be in after skin grafts and protruding bones were taken into account.

Mebbe I'm just getting old/morbid/more risk aware these days though.

[Maruchino]

Can someone post the "not this shit again" please?

This conversation spread across a multitude of forums is fucking boring. The legal requirement is a crash helmet, everything else is personal preference. Nipping around town doing speeds not too dissimilar to a push bike I don't see the problem (although I would personally always wear gloves).

If you're competent enough to pass a bike test, you should have enough about you to know the risks and judge them on your own scale accordingly. End of rant

[virus]

Ive been riding around in patrol boots, 3/4 length camo shorts, an undone leather jacket and fingerless gloves for the last week.

air conditioning. funny watching all the one piece wearing plastic fantastic brigade sweating away whilst im nice and comfortable too


Cheers
John

p.s yes I have crashed before and know how much it hurts, ive had gravel rash too, i just choose not to wear clothing that makes me concentrate more on how hot I am than concentrate on the road.
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stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[whitedevil]

i ride in a sumo suit just incase like

[potato]

So he is a knob for wearing what he likes on his bike?

I must be a right knob as well because i'll be riding in the same hoodie later

[virus]

apparently riding in any less than full leathers all the time makes you an idiot...

I guess im an idiot then, but at least im an idiot thats not sweating like a paedo in a playground.

Cheers
John
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stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[Frost]

Go to south east asia and you'll see this is the norm:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CxhUyuKNw7k/Se6EwJfhgmI/AAAAAAAAAHI/6DE2uyD2xLQ/s400/Children-Riding-on-a-Motor-Scooter-Phnom-Penh-Cambodia-Indochina-Southeast-Asia-Photographic-Print-C13047685.jpeg

At least half the people on the roads are on scooters, yet they all seem to still be alive. Health and safety culture comes from being outraged by other people taking risks for themselves. Personally i think we are all accountable for our own actions and decisions. Truth is shorts & T-shirt at 30mph on a ped is a fuck load safer than all-the-gear-no-idea on a 180mph superbike. The number of people riding without safety equipment is dwalfed by the number of middle aged men with the latest superbike that they've bought special parts for to make it go faster, before they've ever really ridden it.
I was talking to a bloke in the pub last night who had just bought a new BMW because it was the fastest. He'd only ever ridden a 500 on a DAS 2 years ago, yet he's bothered about having a bike that does 190 instead of 187 or whatever.

[Easter Bunny]

[Asharin]

As has been said, it's personal choice Tbh. As long as you have a helmet you're fulfilling your legal requirement.
Personally I always wear either a leather or textile jacket and gloves, but with those I often just wear normal jeans (I only own 2 pairs of kevlar jeans and my leather trousers are too hot to wear in summer, too cold in winter)
My boots, like Virus' are usually combat boots, though I also have a pair of those cruiser type boots they sold in the Lidl motorbike sale this year Surprisingly comfy they are too!

Anyway, to the point, why care what someone is wearing? It's not like their roadrash will hurt YOU is it? I can understand if it's a family member or a friend perhaps, but some random stranger?

[Easter Bunny]

The point was the trailing centre stand!
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[virus]

the point would have been much more visible if you had uploaded a decent size image.

Cheers
John
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stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[adama]

I dont see why people complain, why should we care about somebody riding in shorts and grinding his skin down to the bone if he comes off...not out problem? no need to moan lol.
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[Ben.]

Ever smoked a cigarette? Are you a little over weight? do one you hypocrites.
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[Wave2k]

You will NOT wear shorts or it will be BANNED
You cannot do this
You cannot do that

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[Easter Bunny]

If you read it carefully you see it wasnt really just the shorts, except maybe a fashion crime, more so the trailing centre stand "combined" with the knee exposure!
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[Banned]

I've upgraded my summer gear from open sandals to openish croc sandals, after failing to find a matching pair of push bike fingerless at lidl i'm using leather gloves, not bike gloves ..

Shorts or 3/4 lenght trackies, hoody and or cant do up non bike leather jacket. Open face lid.

If i was going out for a proper ride / hoon, kevlar combats with ce knees and hips, and textile top .. undone, caus that seems to be ' hardcore ' ...


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[Hyaon]

Doesn't riding with a centre stand trailing kind of cause a lot of sparks?....
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