in case you get T-boned by an arctic.
Haha not sure any amount of kit would help in that situation! 
so hows not wearing leather gonna stop some pratt pulling out on you from a junction or similar?
so if that happens and your not stopping just cos he’s not got leathers on put a sign on yourself so they all know not to help you if it happens to you.
you should help anyone because you would want them to help you if poss whether they have right gear on or not.
I used to wear casual gear riding the bike to work until I met a bloke who had popped down the shops on his bike and hadn’t put his riding gear on as it was just a short ride. He was doing 20mph when he was hit by a car. It had happened a couple of years previously and he had had a few ops on his leg to repair the damage but it had not worked and he’d just found out that the leg would have to be amputated. The operations had included transplanting muscle from his arm to try to save the leg, leaving him with a partially disabled arm. The hospital told him that had he been wearing boots his leg wouldn’t have received anywhere near the amount of muscle damage that had occurred, the accident had pretty much destroyed his calf.
If you’re riding at 2mph, why bother with the bike? You’d be better off walking.
I always wear a minimum of short boots, kevlar jeans & a proper bike jacket when I’m commuting on the motorbike but at the weekend I go out on my pushbike in shorts & t-shirt and probably get up to higher speeds than I do on the motorbike midweek so I’m not exactly taking the moral high ground here.
My wife used to be a nurse, doing a mix of theatres, recovery, HDU and ITU. On numerous occasions she had scrubbed for people who had come off their bike with no protection and needed a general aesthetic, just so they could cope with the pain of nurses scrubbing the grit out of the remains of their skin down one side of their body. Yeeooouch!
i have had road rash and the fluffiest of towels feels like a wire brush
If you travel at a speed in which you can safely stop on your own side of the road, you will generally avoid a head on collision. Hence why on the approach to a blind bend we slow down! 
Tom we need to get you on a bikesafe course or similar, then you would enjoy riding a whole more especially in Wales.
Daws, I’m sure you wouldn’t do that. You’d probably stop. You’re just worried about these people.
But I agree with you, I have noticed a lot of men in suits riding motorbikes and also scooters, and sometimes they have girlfriends as pillion with summer dress, bare legs and flip flops and it makes me scared for them…I always wear everything: jacket, boots, trousers, gloves, hig vis vest, but that’s because I’m a newbie and feel I can’t take any risk whatsoever. It’s a personal choice in the end, I guess.
I always wear the minimum of Helmet, gloves, jacket and boots. Statistically, you are more likely to damage your feet in an accident than any other part of your body.
Oh God, not this whole ‘other people should wear all the gear’ thread coming out again (sorry but having been on here 5 years, it pops up every month 
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People take risks in life. Some people smoke too much, some people drink too much, some people eat far too much, some people go out in winter without a coat, some people ride push bikes in bikinis, some people dance in high heels, some people go snowboarding down mountainsides, some people go to dangerous countries, some people ride motorbikes in jeans…
If we rationed health care only to those that ate organic food, went to bed at 10 pm every night, drank ginger tea and only rode in full leathers, A&E would be empty.
I am currently in Nepal and people are riding motorbikes without lids in flip flops, with entire families going pillion, in bad traffic on potholed roads - so it’s all relative:D
A fellow biker is a fellow biker - even if they are riding a Triumph Tiger in a swimming costume in November - I would stop to help. (Especially if it was Rixxy in his mankini :D:D )
No one said ‘office knobbers’ are all men. You got to stop a sweetie chick if she crashes in her bikini 
I don’t mind this but I do mind the suggestion that because banker bonuses are to be capped apparently (yeah right) that this somehow means that the rest of us are going to have to pay to use cash machines.:crazy:
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