Jay
When you ride you motorcycle do you ride in full gear? Im talking one piece race suit with back protector, knee pucks for putting your knee down(if you do) racing boots, gloves, etc. Do you do it on a commute to work? Why or why not. What kind of bike? Why do people talk crap when you don't do it on sport bike but when people ride a cruiser its fine to wear a half shield helmet and Denim vest? My bike is my main source of transportation. Its a super-sport but i wear a full face helmet, leather jacket, jeans, and boots. i also carry a backpack. What do you wear???????
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I see a lot of people in full racing leathers--knee pucks, matching boots and gloves, sometimes even matching graphics on the helmet. I think they look a little silly for street riding, in fact it makes them look 'dangerous' to me, like they're taking chances they shouldn't take. Full leather suits are for the track, not the street.
I wear a full-face helmet because studies have shown (and you might have expected all along) that about half the impacts come from the front, so wearing a half helmet is like locking two doors in a four-door car. I wear gloves with leather palms because when you fall off, even at low speeds, you instinctively put your hands out (learned that one the hard way). And I have a leather jacket for when it's cold and a mesh jacket for the Summer. Actually I have two pairs of gloves, cold and warm.
I probably should have some kind of abrasion-resistant pants, like Draggin' Jeans or something like that, but I never have. Boots would be good too, for long rides anyway, but I never bothered with those either. I do wear leather shoes (I usually run around in just Crocs).
And my sweetie followed me home once at night on my vintage BMW and said she had a hard time seeing my tail light. So I bought a reflective vest. I wear it on the bicycle at night too.
I like long rides, like 200-300 miles in a day. I carry my whole 'wardrobe'--Leather and mesh jacket, a sweater for under the leather jacket, cold and warm gloves, reflective vest. So I'm ready for anything. 8^)
I see a lot of people in full racing leathers--knee pucks, matching boots and gloves, sometimes even matching graphics on the helmet. I think they look a little silly for street riding, in fact it makes them look 'dangerous' to me, like they're taking chances they shouldn't take. Full leather suits are for the track, not the street.
I wear a full-face helmet because studies have shown (and you might have expected all along) that about half the impacts come from the front, so wearing a half helmet is like locking two doors in a four-door car. I wear gloves with leather palms because when you fall off, even at low speeds, you instinctively put your hands out (learned that one the hard way). And I have a leather jacket for when it's cold and a mesh jacket for the Summer. Actually I have two pairs of gloves, cold and warm.
I probably should have some kind of abrasion-resistant pants, like Draggin' Jeans or something like that, but I never have. Boots would be good too, for long rides anyway, but I never bothered with those either. I do wear leather shoes (I usually run around in just Crocs).
And my sweetie followed me home once at night on my vintage BMW and said she had a hard time seeing my tail light. So I bought a reflective vest. I wear it on the bicycle at night too.
I like long rides, like 200-300 miles in a day. I carry my whole 'wardrobe'--Leather and mesh jacket, a sweater for under the leather jacket, cold and warm gloves, reflective vest. So I'm ready for anything. 8^)
Does anyone feel that the USA has no right putting missiles in Germany?
emily Rose
Isn't this what the NATO and the United Nations are responsible for? Are you tired of the USA always sticking their nose into things that should be dealt with by already in place by the United Nations. Do you think Bush again jumped into putting the American people second. And not even considering the ramification it may mean how the world looks at us. Isn't this how we ended in Iraq, Bush satisfying a vendetta Saddam had out on Bush Sr. life. And lied about WMD's to try to make his case, even before the United Nations had a chance to work.
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I think it's up to the Germans really. As a random musing, I read somewhere that the Israelis thought that Patriot Missiles ( of 1991 Gulf War vintage) did not actually work (ie intercept incoming missiles) , which could somewhat defeat the object of the whole exercise, really, unless they have improved since then.
A part of me always regards a lot of these weapons as scams against the taxpayer, really, especially the really expensive ones. You know, the ones that someone aims at you from 2,000,000,000 kilometres squared away from you, then it arrives, knocks on your front door, goes upstairs and looks for you under hiding under the bed. The ones that cost £34455503283-59p to blow up someone driving to work in Iraq.
A lot of these systems are a bit like building pyramids, except the Egyptians did not demolish the pyramids after thirty years and then bill the taxpayer for another lot.
I do wonder, and I am not an expert, what use are nuclear weapons and hi-tech weaponry in general, against people who use bicycles and Datsun pickup trucks, communicate by passing notes to each other? and use automatic rifles and suicide belts? I would have thought you would have needed more old-fashioned infantry with big boots and helmets, the sort of people who donât want to join the Army in the UK as the salaries are so poor, perhaps as much of the money has gone on pyramid-like nuclear weapons that will be dismantled, God willing, in thirty years time.
I think it's up to the Germans really. As a random musing, I read somewhere that the Israelis thought that Patriot Missiles ( of 1991 Gulf War vintage) did not actually work (ie intercept incoming missiles) , which could somewhat defeat the object of the whole exercise, really, unless they have improved since then.
A part of me always regards a lot of these weapons as scams against the taxpayer, really, especially the really expensive ones. You know, the ones that someone aims at you from 2,000,000,000 kilometres squared away from you, then it arrives, knocks on your front door, goes upstairs and looks for you under hiding under the bed. The ones that cost £34455503283-59p to blow up someone driving to work in Iraq.
A lot of these systems are a bit like building pyramids, except the Egyptians did not demolish the pyramids after thirty years and then bill the taxpayer for another lot.
I do wonder, and I am not an expert, what use are nuclear weapons and hi-tech weaponry in general, against people who use bicycles and Datsun pickup trucks, communicate by passing notes to each other? and use automatic rifles and suicide belts? I would have thought you would have needed more old-fashioned infantry with big boots and helmets, the sort of people who donât want to join the Army in the UK as the salaries are so poor, perhaps as much of the money has gone on pyramid-like nuclear weapons that will be dismantled, God willing, in thirty years time.
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