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What Not To Wear (while riding)
- Thread starter JonKerr
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That looks amazingly like a 250 Rebel. Perhaps there was a little envy involved? You know you want one!!Here is a cruiser jughead I saw on the way home from work today.
He thought he was really cool and took off fast from every stop like he could outrun me. I just laughed at him.
Sandals, tee shirt, Fake DOT Kraut helmet on a Sportster.
For some reason, the pics with passengers wearing absolutely no gear, not even jeans, really give me an awful feeling. I'd rather ride naked and have my passenger wear all my gear than have a passenger without gear.
Add to that these young riders with their poor form are going to push it through the turns in order to impress the photographer, and you've got a recipe for disaster.
Chevyfazer
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Here's some good ones!
I was actually going to wait until I wrote the description just to see what the comments were but I figure I'd just tell y'all now.
Actually met these guys over the weekend, they were wearing full leathers but would strip down to their drawers before coming up on a camera for their 2nd annual "HEY CAGE'ERS CAN YOU SEE ME KNOW" safety/full gear campaign. They do this so people can see just how stupid they look when riding with no gear. Pretty F'n awesome if you ask me, that they had the bawls to do it.
I was actually going to wait until I wrote the description just to see what the comments were but I figure I'd just tell y'all now.
Actually met these guys over the weekend, they were wearing full leathers but would strip down to their drawers before coming up on a camera for their 2nd annual "HEY CAGE'ERS CAN YOU SEE ME KNOW" safety/full gear campaign. They do this so people can see just how stupid they look when riding with no gear. Pretty F'n awesome if you ask me, that they had the bawls to do it.
That seems the equivalent of MADD members driving drunk to raise awareness of drunk driving.
Not really, when the risk was entirely to themselves. Drunk drivers actually tend to get hurt less than the people they crash into. And there has been LOTS of media coverage over the years where people subjected themselves to alcohol and/or sleep deprivation in a controlled situation and then tried to drive a motor vehicle. So driving drunk to raise awareness of the hazards of drinking and driving is not new, either.That seems the equivalent of MADD members driving drunk to raise awareness of drunk driving.
That aside, riding around slow is pretty low-risk. It's not no-risk, but barring some stupid-bad-luck you could certainly ride Deal's Gap without gear and come through completely unscathed. Their point is to act and look foolish in order to demonstrate the foolishness of people who make poor choices in terms of what they wear and how they ride.
Please explain what kind of gear is going to protect my bones and joints from the impact of a 3,000lb vehicle hitting me.
I am an ATGATT guy, but many many times when I read threads like these I get the impression people think great gear is the end-all-be-all solution. You can protect against a lot of things, and in particular road rash and brain injury from crashes that would have otherwise been highly injurious if not fatal. But your back, knees, shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers, ankles, feet, toes, neck, and collarbone are all still highly vulnerable even with the very best equipment money can buy. Just ask Nicky Hayden or Casey Stoner ~ they have some recent experience in that area.
Wearing ATGATT is the best choice, but lets not get carried away with how super awesome we are making that choice when you're still pretty unprotected.
I'm merely pointing out the absurdity of doing something to show others how it shouldn't be done. If you don't like my example, how about not wearing a seatbelt to draw awareness to not wearing seatbelts? Or drinking rotten milk to draw awareness to the fact that it's gone bad? Or licking a frozen light pole to demonstrate how wet skin can stick to frozen metal objects?
My point is, it's dumb.
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I thought it was fairly effective.
It is really hard to find ways to point out what NOT to do that will have any impact on those who are not listening in the first place. There is an entire branch of pyschology that studies risk-taking and risk-perception:
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/How-Risky-Is-It-Really/dp/0071629696"]Amazon.com: How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts (9780071629690): David Ropeik: Books[/ame]
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There are already plenty of examples of what not to wear. Like, um, I don't know, this entire thread? So what good are they (the semi naked protest riders) really doing? There are any number of examples on KillBoy's site itself.
If you want impact, look at the "after" pics of a wreck involving those not wearing gear.
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Won't happen to me. No perceived risk, no impact. Next.
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Exactly. So how does riding naked up Deals Gap pandering to a camera change that? Answer: It doesn't. I think it's more about exhibitionists who crave attention finding a way to get it, than it is about "raising awareness."
Wear gear. That is all.
Linked thread full of reasons why.
http://www.600cc.org/forum/f87/wear-your-gear-warning-graphic-21147/#post274661
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