We just had a bike event in our town. I saw some bikes there with a long leather rope hanging from the handlebars. My friend from California knew what they were. They have a quick disconnect on the handlebar end. The rope has a weight on the end. The theory is if a cager does something stupid you whip off your leather rope and smack their windshield with the weighted end. I'm thinking smacking the wrong guys windshield could be a very costly mistake.
We just had a bike event in our town. I saw some bikes there with a long leather rope hanging from the handlebars. My friend from California knew what they were. They have a quick disconnect on the handlebar end. The rope has a weight on the end. The theory is if a cager does something stupid you whip off your leather rope and smack their windshield with the weighted end. I'm thinking smacking the wrong guys windshield could be a very costly mistake.
June 29th this year full gear,full face helmet which did hit the ground armored gloves. 20 mph impact with an SUV, other than being sore as hell for a couple of weeks that's all I received other than knowledge that 4 years at Harvard couldn't have taught me. Enjoy the ride!
Its very simple dress according to the risk you are willing to take....
1) if your boots do not have ankle armor in them they are nothing but high top leather tennis shoes anyway.
2) if heavy armored gloves prevent you from handling the bike well then you have a choice to make 1) take the risk of breaking your hands if you go down, 2) or go down because you don't have control over your bike. 3) where a comfy pair of leather gloves to give you a false since of security. I choose to not wear gloves unless its cold or raining because control of the bike is important also. so I subscribe to the prevention method instead of the protection method. Besides it's way to hard to text and ride with gloves on
3) as far as a helmet goes i am middle of the road I do where a nice half helmet that is dot and Snell approved for what that worth and if its cold or rainy i will use a full face... again I subscribe to comfort and control over protection.... but its a risk I have to take.... besides wearing a fullface and glove makes it way to hard for me to deploy the trusty hip flask and have a nice shot of bourbon wile riding
4) I wear a jacket if its cold or raining and if I wear a jacket I make sure it has armor and not a cheap pleather jacket I picked up at the flea market because it had cool zippers and it came with a free novelty helmet. A good motorcycle jacket should have armor and pocket space for 6 beers
All kidding aside, I think that the claustrophobia argument against fullface lids only holds water for legitimate claustrophobics.
It's pretty easy to become accustomed to wearing one... the more one does so, the easier, more natural or more conmfortable it becomes (leaving aside extreme heat conditions). Such helmets have flippable, retractable and removable visors so that one can choose to ride full faced into the wind with said helmet type and a good pair of glasses or goggles can be emplyed to deflect wind, bugs, dirt, debris, etc.. Alternatively, and truly a second best solution, would be choosing to use a full face modular, flip-up style helmet. It is second best strictly from an engineering standpoint as it is presently physically imposssible for that type of helmet to be as robust and/or "bulletproof" to inherent design or engineered weaknesses as an integrated one-piece fullface helmet. the hinge and locking mechanisms on such lids are their Achilles heel.
We just had a bike event in our town. I saw some bikes there with a long leather rope hanging from the handlebars. My friend from California knew what they were. They have a quick disconnect on the handlebar end. The rope has a weight on the end. The theory is if a cager does something stupid you whip off your leather rope and smack their windshield with the weighted end. I'm thinking smacking the wrong guys windshield could be a very costly mistake.
I would not give a flying fcuk who it was if some tosser hit my car with his sex whip I would run the bastard off the road then reverse back over him to see if he was okay.
I would not give a flying fcuk who it was if some tosser hit my car with his sex whip I would run the bastard off the road then reverse back over him to see if he was okay.
II also recommend losing the sneakers they are not a good idea especially when laces get caught on stand or gear lever or if you happen to drop the beast the boots could be the difference between saving the feet and seriously injuring them. Trust me sneakers come off more often than not when the **** hits the fan.
But as to answer your actual question No your not a poser only those who dress up like a fkn pirate on weekends are posers u can see them a mile away lmfao if only they knew how ridiculous they look .Then when it rains they scramble for the car keys because they don't want to get their pretty pirate costumes wet