[LilNinja77]

Patrick777------yes, I was being serious about getting laughed at for wearing my gear, in fact, it's happened quite a few times at various locations. Both the cruiser and sportbike crowd have laughed at me for it, and of course there has been more than the fair share of non-riders who point and laugh (parking lots are mean places :blush: )

Here's the laundry list of A-holes who apparently think wearing riding gear is funny :
Harley riders
Harley passengers
Metric cruiser riders
Wanna-be racers on sportbikes they have no control over
cage drivers who are blasting the AC while I sit in the humidity/heat
cage drivers who are blasting the heat while I sit in the cold
rednecks in big trucks
wanna-be gangsters in whatever bling'd out bass-machine they happen to be in
high school kids sitting on the bus

.........I think you get the picture. I'd say 95% of the time, all the negativity is in the summer/warmer months, no one seems to want trouble in the winter. I don't know what ever happened to "ride your own ride". About the only group that seem to enjoy my full gear are the little kids who always make the "pull a wheelie" motion to me as I ride by......and of course they don't like the gear for the right reasons. They just like it 'cause I look like a racer with all my leathers on. Actually, some of the non-idiot sportbike guys and non-moron cruiser guys do give me a little respect for riding all year with full gear, only because they are the few other riders here that also do the same.

On another note, how pissed off would this make you? I went to Wal-Mart Saturday (yes, July 4th and I went to the Chinese base-camp) to pick up some shotgun shells, and when I came out to get back on the Ninja there were 3........yep, count'em, 3 shopping carts in the parking space I was in. Only one was touching the motorcycle, but I mean really, what the hell?!?!?! I hate Suffolk VA :cuss:

Sorry for the little rant,
Ride safe