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burkbuilds · 03-10-2010, 10:40 AM

SC, remember, you are in Vermont, as Danny pointed out, it get's a little warmer down south and there's always the risk of overheating to the point of passing out which also leads to crashing, so yeah, when I'm bundled up for Winter riding I am wearing a lot of protective gear because it keeps me warm not just because it would protect me better in a fall. Like Danny, I tend to drop the gear proportionally as the weather gets hot, and yes I've ridden in jeans and a T-Shirt when it's near 100 degrees around here. Like Danny, I always have on my boots and maybe unlike Danny, I don't ride in shorts (ever burned your leg on a motorcycle exhaust?) well, that's another story. Basically my personal belief is that the gear will keep you from getting scraped up in a fall, but it probably won't save your life in a collision if your wreck is bad enough to kill you without the gear. If you want safety, drive a dump truck, death rates per million miles driven in a dump truck are about 1/4 that of cars which are 36 times safer per million miles driven than motorcycles. I'm fully aware of the fact that I'm putting myself in harms way every time I ride my bike and no amount of safety gear is likely to save my life in a severe crash, might make the corpse less scraped up, but won't save me from dying. It will however keep most of my hide on me in the event of a non fatal crash and that is definitely worth considering, but don't be fooled into thinking it will keep you from dying in a severe crash. I guess what I'm saying is that it's a choice everyone should make with good information. Some riders will decide that it's to limiting and destroys the reason they ride in the first place to have on a lot of safety gear, others will decide that they'd rather have on everything available no matter how much it cost and how restrictive it feels, most of us fall somewhere in the middle, but it doesn't make us idiots, just people exercising their right to choose what risks they are willing to take in life. I mean lets face it, some people are such big risk takers that they will even ride in a Toyota! :retard:

03-10-2010, 10:40 AM	#14
burkbuilds Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Shannon, Georgia Posts: 1,268	Re: What do you guys think of this riding gear? SC, remember, you are in Vermont, as Danny pointed out, it get's a little warmer down south and there's always the risk of overheating to the point of passing out which also leads to crashing, so yeah, when I'm bundled up for Winter riding I am wearing a lot of protective gear because it keeps me warm not just because it would protect me better in a fall. Like Danny, I tend to drop the gear proportionally as the weather gets hot, and yes I've ridden in jeans and a T-Shirt when it's near 100 degrees around here. Like Danny, I always have on my boots and maybe unlike Danny, I don't ride in shorts (ever burned your leg on a motorcycle exhaust?) well, that's another story. Basically my personal belief is that the gear will keep you from getting scraped up in a fall, but it probably won't save your life in a collision if your wreck is bad enough to kill you without the gear. If you want safety, drive a dump truck, death rates per million miles driven in a dump truck are about 1/4 that of cars which are 36 times safer per million miles driven than motorcycles. I'm fully aware of the fact that I'm putting myself in harms way every time I ride my bike and no amount of safety gear is likely to save my life in a severe crash, might make the corpse less scraped up, but won't save me from dying. It will however keep most of my hide on me in the event of a non fatal crash and that is definitely worth considering, but don't be fooled into thinking it will keep you from dying in a severe crash. I guess what I'm saying is that it's a choice everyone should make with good information. Some riders will decide that it's to limiting and destroys the reason they ride in the first place to have on a lot of safety gear, others will decide that they'd rather have on everything available no matter how much it cost and how restrictive it feels, most of us fall somewhere in the middle, but it doesn't make us idiots, just people exercising their right to choose what risks they are willing to take in life. I mean lets face it, some people are such big risk takers that they will even ride in a Toyota! :retard:
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