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Post by BADGER on Jun 8, 2006 7:05:13 GMT
Beware SILLY SEASON is here once more, The sun :sunny: is out and the idiots are riding about with next to no clothes on. Went out yesterday for a while, perfect riding weather, ie not to hot. Yes and there they are , buzzing about like flys on meat, the moped/scooter riders , there must of been 5 or 6 of them riding up the main road all had shorts on some had no t-shirt and 2 didnt even have a helmet on either.
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Post by lightspeed on Jun 8, 2006 13:52:39 GMT
More candidates for Darwin awards. . .
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Post by floog on Jun 8, 2006 14:20:38 GMT
Bang on the money there MICHAEL Out on Rochester's finest roads today on me Rex and I spot a Triumph being ridden by a bloke with no gloves, and only shorts, T-shirt and trainers on Later I'm passed by a similarly clad Ducati owner giving it the berries... About a dozen scooters wearing pyjamas or shorts and trainers....Makes my cringe just thinking of an off I used to know a factual figure about yards travelled per cm of skin removed from the human body courtesy of a nurse from Guy's hospital...can't recall it, but it's truly shocking She had seen so many bike accident victims with fingers and toes that had turned to mincemeat.....I changed from my long term textile bike clobber to leathers over night when she explained leather is the only thing that gives you a chance That was later backed up in 'RIDE'. Sadly, English law states that only a helmet is a legal requirement...boots, gloves and leathers are a matter of choice I won't even begin to describe some of the bike accident horrors we were shown in the police training seminars..... It is, also proven statistically to be an age related mindset...invincibility of youth and all that.......I'd like to think all of us Golden Oldies (MICHAEL), are a little wiser.......
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Post by ZRX Gremlin on Jun 8, 2006 20:06:19 GMT
I've read that somewhere too. I also remember reading something about the temperature generated when skin (with bodyweight behind it) impacts with concrete or tarmac at even the slowest of speeds. A graze is painful enough, I've had more than my fair share while riding, or rather falling off pushbikes. Add second degree burns to that and you have a recipe for proper pain, not something that, as a rule I'm normally into.
The stupidest thing I ever saw done on two wheels was by a Gixer rider who overtook me in the fast lane on the M5 while (he was) wearing nothing more than shorts, flip flops and an Arai lid I was doing over 120mph at the time. Had idiot gixer rider have binned it at that kind of speed, his remains would have been scraped off the road and collected with a dustpan and brush. There wouldn't have been enough of him left to burden the NHS with. :fist:
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Post by bikesnoopy on Jun 8, 2006 21:08:49 GMT
F**KING WANKERS...the lot of 'em. Makes my blood boil when i see it. Having had some VERY seroius body/tarmac interfaces in recent years,i have first hand experience of just how it feels when youre wearing full leathers & you slide down the road at ANY speed. It makes me cringe to think of the same...but in teeshirt & shorts... F**KING WANKERS
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Post by wardourdrive on Jun 9, 2006 8:59:05 GMT
Don't even get me started on the complete wankers who do this. We all know it hurts even in leathers so I dread to think what would happen to those in shorts etc. Apart from a helmet you forgot to mention it has to be done up, most don't even bother with this.
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Post by ZRX Gremlin on Jun 9, 2006 9:27:08 GMT
Apart from a helmet you forgot to mention it has to be done up I don't think anybody forgot. I'm sure that for all of us here, it's a reflex action. ie. lid on, fasten strap.............. Goes without saying.
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Post by floog on Jun 9, 2006 15:16:59 GMT
Apart from a helmet you forgot to mention it has to be done up I don't think anybody forgot. I'm sure that for all of us here, it's a reflex action. ie. lid on, fasten strap.............. Goes without saying. :agreed: GREMLIN......one hundred per cent......
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