Some bikers, you must be nuts

Originally Posted by timwilky

Cote d'azure 1980, Huge blisters on legs, shoulders. And teach me to not wear a helmet, ear lobes so huge I could not get a helmet on until the blisters burst. But different time/place. riding from camp site to the beach along a dirt road is far different dodging traffic on damp british tarmac.

We rode all around the eastern side of Mallorca.

After three days of this (even with sunscreen) Mrs Metal could only sleep on her front due to burned shoulders, I could only sleep on one side. The wind just rushes over your skin and feels lovely and cool but you're still soaking up serious rays.

[Bri w]

When I see someone riding in shorts etc I think d!ck, then just forget about them.

Freedom of choice.

[timwilky]

Bri, Whilst I tend to agree with you. In this case it is somebody I know. A husband/father/grandfather with decades of riding experience, I would have expected different of him.

But then again as I know him to be more opinionated than my good self. A quiet word in his shell like is unlikely to provoke the response I would like. So I think in this case yours is probably the best attitude to the disgusting sight of short fat hairy white legs astride a motorcycle at an indecent time of the morning. Now if they had been on a young lady and went all the way up to her bum, who am I to complain about seeing them, but as this was not the case, it was a good thing I had not yet partaken of breakfast.

Personal choice, he knows what the risks are, there are people who jump out of perfectly good planes for fun, or go climbing without any ropes.

I wonder if there were as many people doing these pastimes as there are riding motorbikes, which hobby would have the higher mortality rate?

I think cyclists are nuts personally



Down hill sections on some of the races they reach 60-70 mph! But because Lycra is how everyone expects them to be dressed, nobody bats an eyelid!

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Bri w

When I see someone riding in shorts etc I think d!ck, then just forget about them.Freedom of choice.

+1 but in my instructor role I do tell them the consequenses

Originally Posted by timwilky

Bri, Whilst I tend to agree with you. In this case it is somebody I know. A husband/father/grandfather with decades of riding experience, I would have expected different of him.

But then again as I know him to be more opinionated than my good self.

Tim, opionionated, never But my BIL is fairly intelligent, and nobody could make him see any sense ever!

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Personal choice, he knows what the risks are, there are people who jump out of perfectly good planes for fun, or go climbing without any ropes.


I think cyclists are nuts personally



Down hill sections on some of the races they reach 60-70 mph! But because Lycra is how everyone expects them to be dressed, nobody bats an eyelid!

Yep, I'm one of those nuts. But until they invent something thats comfortable to ride in for 3 - 4 hours, that doesn't picnh or chaffe, that also protects you, then I'm afraid we're stuck with lyrca

Its down to personal choice and we seem to have this discussion every summer.

Worst I've seen this year was a guy on a BMW GS pass me on the M2 doing 80 - 90 mph, shorts, tee shirt, no gloves & flip flops. Crazy

Originally Posted by Bri w

When I see someone riding in shorts etc I think d!ck, then just forget about them.

Freedom of choice.

+1

I did ride around Malta in a T-shirt, but did at least wear armoured biking jeans and Daytona bike boots. It took a huge will of effort to remove the jacket and ride in just a shirt to be perfectly honest, and even after a week of doing it I still felt wrong.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Down hill sections on some of the races they reach 60-70 mph! But because Lycra is how everyone expects them to be dressed, nobody bats an eyelid!

I dont even understand my own mentality where this is concerned.

I wont ride across town on my GSXR without my leathers on, yet I'll happily go down a steep hill on my pusher at 40mph or more and not bat an eyelid. Even on the flat I can push 20mph and thats going to leave some nasty gravel rash coming off the pusher at that speed.

I guess one is socially acceptable whereas the other is not. Theres a definate argument that you are more vulnerable on a push bike than on a motorbike IMHO.

As for other bikers, if you arent doing me any harm, then wear the hell what you like, I dont even bat an eye at those who choose to ride in shorts anymore.

I saw a baggage handler at work arrives in shorts the other morning. And at ace cafe there are always people in shorts. Plus I never understand the fully cladded guys in leather with their girlfriends on the back in a mini skirt.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

, yet I'll happily go down a steep hill on my pusher at 40mph or more and not bat an eyelid. Even on the flat I can push 20mph and thats going to leave some nasty gravel rash coming off the pusher at that speed.

Yep, disengage brain, head down and go for it.

Was ridin (cycling ) with a young lady, when we came to the top of one of our local descents. Its not long, but a blind corner at the bottom.

I know it so well, I just launched from the top, when she caught me up, she said ' how did you do that?' I just shrugged my shoulders, 'dunno' ?

And there are probably threads in car forums about how stupid and suicidal you must be to get on a motorbike.

All relative.