All the underdressed bikers out again

Originally Posted by metalangel

I've seen way too many SQUIDs (it can mean many things, but I guess it's Stupidly Quick, Underdressed, Imminently Dead) in the last week or two - guys on nice sports bikes but wearing just a t-shirt and jeans or t-shirt and shorts or whatever. Some are even in sandals, which must hurt when shifting gear!

Yeah, it's hot, but losing your skin isn't going to cool you down either!

Anyone know what posesses someone to be so careless?

do you mean me?

in my cut of combat shorts, boots, lid, trainers and white vest, in cearphilly?

I will admit, when we were in Mallorca and had our rented bike (Dragstar 250) I was in jeans and t-shirt (brought gloves from home) and rented helmet. We'd have used up our entire luggage allowance bringing all our gear so that was the best we could manage. I did one short ride in shorts and burned my shin on the engine (LOL) and felt nervous as hell cos I know what could happen. Jeans back on the next day, felt a bit safer.

So I hold my hands up to being careless once too but I'd never go riding around at the speeds these guys do dressed like that nor would I do it every day.

Originally Posted by metalangel

I've seen way too many SQUIDs (it can mean many things, but I guess it's Stupidly Quick, Underdressed, Imminently Dead) in the last week or two - guys on nice sports bikes but wearing just a t-shirt and jeans or t-shirt and shorts or whatever. Some are even in sandals, which must hurt when shifting gear!

Yeah, it's hot, but losing your skin isn't going to cool you down either!

Anyone know what posesses someone to be so careless?

Who cares, it's their skin they'll destroy. I say it's Darwinism in action, so let it be.

Originally Posted by skeetly

Ooh I wouldn't bet on that.
I've been around long enough to hear 'they'll never ban it...' too many times.

+1

More likely we would see some kind of ban relating to individual roads due to high casualty rates.

Originally Posted by hovis

do you mean me?

in my cut of combat shorts, boots, lid, trainers and white vest, in cearphilly?

I've never eyeballed you unless we've been out riding... so no.

YOU NUTTAH!

[G]

I say let people where what they want, anyone who rides must know the risk and if they dont they they must have no braincells at all.

Only yesterday I was driving home speaking to the girlfriend on the handfree and a lad poulled up in shorts and tshirt, girlfriend on the back wearing some form of summer dress and sandles.......I may have screamed with laughter and said on the phone look at these complete ****s and they may have heard me lol.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by thefallenangel

they should add to the law that a jacket at the very least should be worn which has a CE standard similar to a helmet.

That's 80+% of full racing leathers which would be illegal then.

I think you're talkling bollix. Freedom of choice is something in short supply with todays government, and more expensive, freedom sapping red tape is NOT what we need.

[dizzyblonde]

haha
I just remembered, whilst riding over to Squires on my own on Wednesday night, a Lambretta pulled out of a side road. I laughed at the plop plop of its exhaust. He got in the way a bit, but we pulled to a stop, then a guy on a Bandit appears in my mirror, and nods.
We're all stood there at the lights, I start cooking in my textiles(with all vents open and inside ajcket taken out) and draggins, the bandit guy looks like hes cooking as he was in full leathers. I looked at Mr Lambretta guy with his faded red Tshirt and loud Hawaiin shorts, he looked at me, with his crizzened tanned face peeping out of the white helmet that wasn't done up, then I noticed these



yup he were wearing them alone. He was obviously just nipping to the shop or something, but it made breath in through my teeth!

[yorkie_chris]

Cool kit is out there and isn't too pricey, I've got a jacket made of mesh and armor plates, you look like a bug, but it does flow lots of air. And some "well ventilated" (crashed) draggin jeans.
Vents in lid don't flow enough air though, I keep meaning to get a motoX lid for this time of year.

[Swin]

if your draggin' jeans are "crashed", will they protect you any more?

I haven't got any of these, but following all the recent chat (and they guy on Real Rescues the other night) about how unsafe jeans are, I'm thinking I should get some additional protection