turboglock

its going to rain and rain hard by like 3pm today.

Not wearing gear doesn't physically harm anyone but the person not wearing the gear. I get my tighties in a bunch when I start hearing people talk about regulating gear. It's a personal choice just like a seat-belt. Not wearing/using doesn't affect anyone but the person making that choice. I show up to work looking like an astronaut, but I want to make it home to play ball with my little ones. Enjoy the ride, be aware of what is going on around you, and know that every driver out there wants to kill you (maybe a little dramatic).

Im glad to see someone under stands.

@ TG, while there are no guarantees, watch some AMA racing sometime... those guys go down @ speeds upwards of 200, and usually walk away... So don't fool yourself into thinking your odds are the same with or without gear. your odds of walking away, rather than being carted away, are MUCH MUCH MUCH better with gear on. Loud pipes don't save lives, gear does.

I'm totally against mandating it, but I'm all for reccomending it.

no see your the type of guy that has it twisted. AMA racing crash's happen with everyone going in the same direction and sand traps to stop you and the bike hay bails to keep you from hitting a pole. See in real life its the stoping that kills you when you hit a tree or and oncoming car. See the real world dosnt put up safty nets for you. To many people on here feel like the race track is the same as the streets and then take the bike out and act like it just because they are wearing there magical suit of armer.

I hate deer

So how would this thread go if I said that I think that all bikes should be governed to a speed limit of 70 mph as a top end only because it will save lives.

I found that showing people the site: www.ride2die.com can influence their decision to wear gear.

but its not your job or your right to try to influence anyone to do anything. let them do what they want to do. its not your ass in the seat. you should just worry about you. How often do you speed. they have just as many web sites about that and when talking about that your actually putting other peoples lives in risk. We lost a firefight a few years back that was on his busa and he hit a car that didnt see him and he was speeding way over the limit and killed the passenger and him self. Im saying if someone dosnt want to wear gear then so be it.

When I know they are in that position, I'll just nod, even if I am able to wave.

ya thats what i try to do but then i feel like im acting like im not good enough to wave to them lol. see I seem to get alot of shrugging off because i ride a buell I dont get the HD love because it dosnt look like an HD just sounds and I dont get the sport bike love because its not a sports bike. But thats why I love it. it dose get alot of attention thou in a parking lot at like QSL.

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most doctors will just tell you not to ride at all. all they see is whats left of us after something goes very wrong. its just like police or medics.

Now if you all want to get something band or make rules lets make an age limit for driving on the top end of age just like we have one on the bottom. 90% of the cars that pull out in front of me are an old man or woman that can hardly see anymore awww.

Oh no, I'm not saying wearing the magical helmet will keep me from breaking my neck. But I know with gear I have a better chance reducing injury if/when I go down. <knock on wood>

I love riding, part of it being the adrenaline and risk of it. If I wasn't okay with the price, I wouldn't play the game.

Now thats what im saying is we all know the game and we are playing on the wrong side of the odds. dont get all wrapped up in the idea that the leather and the helmet will keep you alive. It just makes people think they are invincible and then they push it harder.

I hate when someone waves for me ass im stopping or at a light they know i have the clutch pulled lol and I want to wave back so bad lol. makes me feel bad that i couldnt

Yeah you can ride with just a thong and eye protection if it pleases you. But everyone always thinks, "It won't happen to me. It can't. I gots the mad skillz." Everyone on the board knows the benefits to gear. Some are just more willing to accept a greater risk than others. If you want to ride it flip flops and a tank top down the freeway, that's your choice but I'm still gonna call you an idiot.

Like I said I have ridden without my jacket on very short trips. I have ridden without a helmet while testing and tuning my bike. I know I can still go down on very short rides but it is a risk I accepted. I still know that it would be in my best interest to wear all my gear, all the time.

everyone goes down. just dont agree with the idea of acting like we are safe just because we have gear on. its all a game of chance. But thats part of why we all ride is we enjoy the risk the chance of life the idea of living it to the fullest and not just hiding for risks.

I guess basically for me it just boils down to- I just would prefer to live for a while yet, so I can do more motorcycle riding.... and so I wear gear.

and thats your right to do what you want to do. but you still are not safe even with gear. it can end at any time with just the right old woman pulling out not seeing you. or how often do you speed going from place to place dont anyone say they dont speed. going 70 on a bike is like running it in 2nd gear on alot of them. Im just say to me this thread is more about imposing your ideas on other people and I just feel its not the right way to think. its just not for anyone to pass judgement on another man. Im sure all of us do things that we shouldnt in life

Okay. My ugly ass has something to say.

if you were on a reality game show and one of your tasks was to get pushed out of a moving vehicle on to any given asphalt road in your neihborhood at 30mph how would you prepair for that? would you do it in shorts" tee shirt? NAHHHH....

you would gear up wouldn't you? Hell you would go over board. Stuff an over sized leather jacket with foam, elbow pads. hockey gear, and make sure not a single part of you is oncovered RIGHT?

Put that in your pipe and smoke it

well all im going to say on that is that we do still live in a free country to do what we want even if it means making the wrong decision in others minds as long as it dosnt harm someone else. So that said Im not one of the homers to make fun of someone else for riding with out gear its on them it dosnt harm me in any way. now some day this could end up a dictatorship and you can be first in line for that.

From my atv/dirt bike racin days... which I know also applies to asphalt.. you DONT want to roll... rolling is what creates broken bones.

I think going down at all breaks bones lol. I know my sister went down at mid ohio and just slid and broke her coaler bone is 3 place. I shouldnt just say slid it was the in pack of just the low side but it was enough.

I know man. Im just welling to except it. I do a lot of chance taking thats just a small one

ya see my hands dont sweat and for me and im not saying what i do is right. I have been down twice and I guess my natural reaction is to tuck my arms in lol. thats what always happens. tuck and role. I do need them pants my knee's have been waked two times hard. dam Deer got me good last year. i wish they would open up hunting season on them year around. I would like to see the last white tail in a museum some were lol.

I can say i dont like wearing my gloves much.

ill be heading out soon too

were are you in blacklick

what time is everyone going up.

I road to work today woohoo only 34 out and did 30 miles. But the ride home at 3 will be so nice

He mentioned something about getting one with a small trailer so he could haul the wheelchair with him. I would think that he could build some kind of mount on the back, but that's just my opinion. If he didn't have the chair with him, he is pretty much stuck on the bike.

ya i have seen alot of trailers for them.

Dood, its very different than a car. I shouldnt have to point this out, but a car has 4 wheels in line with each other that can straddle most road obstacles. In the heat of summer, I wouldnt want to hit a bloated critter with one of the 3 wheels that are spread across the entire lane.

No, it wont throw you off, it might make you wanna yak however.

Im not saying its not going to hit shit but its not going to put you on your ass. you might break something but i dont think its going to toss you. and if something is going across a lane i would rather hit it with that than my bike. I love my bike but i know the danger thats evolved in riding it. I think having the 3 wheels in the configuration that it has them is very stable. Like the Trex. dont be mad because i disagree with you. its not worth crying over.

On bike you can get around dead things and holes in your lane. Not gonna happen on a Spyder, unless you plan on crossing the line on an avoidance maneuver.

its no diff than a car man. i dodge things all the time. I cant remember the last thing i hit. and just like a car if you hit it i dont see it tossing you to the blacktop. your just going to break something on it.

God help ya if there are pot holes or a carcass in the road. Its looks like a snow mobile on wheels to me.

god help you if your in the same situation on a bike. I would never say they were safer. but you are more visible I think to other motorist.

I think they look like alot of fun and can be used alot more that a motorcycle with the amount of room for storage. I would like to get one but i do think they are over priced.