Always ATGATT after an off wearing jeans resulted in a nurse scrubbing out gravel from the gravel rash on my leg and hip! I said, "Cant you give me a local or do it a different way?", she said, "Yes, but you will remember better this way!!!" (She wouldn't get away with it nowadays, but that was the '80s!).
Since that day, I was exactly 17 yrs, 5 days, 13 hrs and 52 minutes old, its ATGATT!! Binned my B-King at about 90mph about 5 years ago and all my gear was trashed, I had a mild concussion and a broken bone in my hand, would have been a lot worse!! Landed head first, missed my brain by 6 feet!
Gear is Shoei XR1100 lid, Alpine Stars boots, Leather bike trousers, Leather or armoured textile jackets, Leather gloves with kevlar knuckles (good for car mirrors when they cut you up) or draggin kevlar jeans when its hot (2 days a year over here!).
BUT, it is the rider's choice, I do wince when I see Mr R1 with his shorts, t-shirt and flip-flops but that's his choice.
