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Subject: Re: Why you should wear proper motorcycle gear by red_johnny on 2008/12/17 0:24:36
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jsup wrote: If you have a motorcycle, you will get hurt. Simple.
I've had bikes since I was about 12. I can't believe how stupid I was. I used to work as a lifeguard on the beach in NJ. I would go to work in my bathing suit on my bike. Serious...no shoes, no shirt, no nothin, a bathing suit, oh and a helmet.
I consider myself lucky I'm still alive. It was 9 miles each way from my beach to my house.
I got the Corvette in lieu of a motorcycle. I've had both for years. I figure the Vette was safer.
That's a great story. Should be required reading before getting on a bike.
I disagree, if you ride DUMB you will get hurt. She rode dumb, she got hurt. My brother recently got into a accident and guess what, he tried to take a turn like you would on a sport bike but he was riding a cruser. The foot peg grabbed asphalt and he ate it. He also was not wearing anything to protect him. He was not that badly skinned up but it was still bad enough to total the bike. I had 2 bikes in my past and never got hurt on either of them. I dont plan on getting hurt on mine either. And I know about the whole its not allways your fault thing but I figure this, I can just as easily die in a corvette then on a bike. Hell you can die in a volvo, if its your time its your time. I wont put myself in danger by riding dumb, pushing limits of my bike. Thats not me, I ride safe yet I catch all the BS because of the stupid riders. Because of them I have to take a motorcycle safty course, not a bad idea and I have no problem with that. The bigest thing I have a problem with is wearing a reflective belt and over the heel boots wither I leasure ride or ride on post. Why do I think thats dumb? Cause the reflective belt does not make you much more visable unless your strictly wearing black. The boots are dumb because if your wearing a tough shoe it will protect your feet just as well. Anyway, the army is allways stepping up its program for ridders adding more BS everyday. Next is a sport bike riders course that is MANDITORY for sport bike riders alone. The harley guys dont have to take the course. Its profiling, singling out what ever you want to call it IMO its wrong! If I got a few years experience and I have to go through the same crap as a guy who just started to ride just because we ride the same kind of bike while another guy who just started is riding a harley but can certainly ride just as bad as the other new rider. GRRRRRRR. Makes me mad!
