its abit nippy out

An old scarf is just as good. 50p in the charity shop

Originally Posted by Ed

An old scarf is just as good. 50p in the charity shop

`til it unravels in the wind , then hits the rear wheel dragging your neck into the drivetrain and sawing your head off .............. this is why I don`t wear my Tom Baker "Dr Who" scarf anymore

Originally Posted by xXBADGERXx

`til it unravels in the wind , then hits the rear wheel dragging your neck into the drivetrain and sawing your head off .............. this is why I don`t wear my Tom Baker "Dr Who" scarf anymore

how did you reatach your head

Originally Posted by xXBADGERXx

`til it unravels in the wind , then hits the rear wheel dragging your neck into the drivetrain and sawing your head off .............. this is why I don`t wear my Tom Baker "Dr Who" scarf anymore

Someday someone will publish 'Old Wives Tales of Biking' and this will be in there. I've never had a prob with a scarf. Nor with wearing boots with laces, my feet haven't been sliced off by the chain yet.

Originally Posted by Ed

Nor with wearing boots with laces, my feet haven't been sliced off by the chain yet.

I've got a lace stuck on the foot-peg of my CG125. Very lucky that I was leaning the other side so could get a foot down, otherwise it could of been very embarrassing!!

Keeping to the topic, I set off from work at 7am this morning. I had a few folks saying I was insane for riding a bike when it was so icy, and I had a few people telling me to be careful etc.

I left work a good 10 mins after one of the other lads, scraped the ice off the seat/mirrors/lights, and left whilst the other lad was still scraping ice from his car window.

Whilst riding home, I discovered that the horns on the bike must of frozen, as they didn't work. They did when I got home though.

Originally Posted by zsv650

how did you reatach your head

I have a nice YKK zip off a pair of old denims
<---- look at neck on my Avatar

Originally Posted by Ed

Someday someone will publish 'Old Wives Tales of Biking' and this will be in there. I've never had a prob with a scarf. Nor with wearing boots with laces, my feet haven't been sliced off by the chain yet.

So bike chains don`t actually come off at high speed and smash through the tank ripping yer testacleeeeese off ? Damn ............ EVERYBODY I know has had a mate of a mate that has had this happen to them .

I was taking the mick about the Scarf Ed , in , as you say , "Old Wives" tale mode LOL . There were lots of things told to me as a new biker back in the day and it`s strange how stuff gets bandied around as fact , but I do have a good tale for you and it is actually a true one nonetheless and cold related .

My mate Dave had a VERY heavily pregnant wife , the stage of which they take no **** from anyone and if they ask you to do something you just do it . She was hungry and fancied a Chinese , so Dave phones the order in and decides to ride there on the bike , FZR600 . Weather is very much like it is now but this was back in the 90`s . He plops his John Kocinski Shoei GRV on his head , dons his white leather Jacket (I have pictures) and heads off there just wearing a pair of jeans and trainers as well . The journey is only half a mile from his house .

He gets there and pays for the Chow mein and various noodles and sweet and sours and they are stacked in a tower of 4 packs (just enough to get down his front jacket and be zipped over) . Of course these are PIPING hot so he slips a newspaper off the counter down the front of the jacket between his T shirt and the food and bids a cheery good bye . He gets on the bike and pulls away and some woman pulls right out into his side , he glances off the car and the front end lets go and he surfs on his front down the road for a few yards and rolls over onto his back . He is laying there thinking "WTF just happened" and he can hear a woman going "Oh god no , Oh GOD NO what have I done ............" Dave then starts to come around a bit more and feels the burning sensation seeping through the newspaper and realises the chow mein and sweet and sour are scorching his chest and stomache , he jumps to his feet and starts yelling , unzips his jacket and noodles and sweet and sour fall to the floor .......... Woman faints and cracks her head open on the road .

Dave manages to get home with burn marks and sore hands from coming off the bike and NO sympathy whatsoever from heavily pregnant Mrs as he has come home with NO FOOD and gets yelled at for it

And the woman that knocked him off ? ...... she fainted because she thought it was his intestines and innards that were flopping to the floor when he hastily opened his jacket as he was yelling . You would be amazed the amount of times I have been told this story from other people who have had it happen to mates .

[Shellywoozle]

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

expensive for what they are tho, i scaved mine off a friend.

Think the friend leant it ya and never got it back LOL ... they forgot abour it now so I believe

wonder who it was i stole it off?

[punyXpress]

Originally Posted by Ed

Someday someone will publish 'Old Wives Tales of Biking' and this will be in there. I've never had a prob with a scarf. Nor with wearing boots with laces, my feet haven't been sliced off by the chain yet.

Not quite biking, but Isadora Duncan, a well known dancer was killed when her scarf caught in the rear wheel of the Bugatti she was a passenger in on 14th September 1927. JUST before my time, but still a warning!