I sit there in me leathers sweating my tits off at every light, every slow section, every interchange, and see these scooterists and many big bikers zipping around with almost no clothes on.
On one hand I’m dehydrated and slightly jealous, on the other I think a bit of sweat is stacks better than a major skin-graft…
R
blimey this is a new topic…
heheheh
ITS VERY SILLY WEARING SHORTS AND A T-SHIRT WHAT IF THERE COME OFF.
Don’t know how true this is, but i was told staff in the A&E department on busy, wrought nights may not bother to adminster anaesthetic when irrigating gravel out of people who’ve had a tumble out riding without protective gear on. as i say, no idea how true this is.
Let them get on with it i say, Its up to the rider what he/she wants to wear!
Although it would hurt a bit. 
I’ve never seen this topic before!:P:D:)
there was a write up actually in magazine lately about this, they were saying that if you take an average 40 something biker, slightly overweight, dropped in leathers and riding on a hot day, they risk of having an accident are greatly increased due to dehydration and lack of concentration. Also mentioned French police who apparently only wear short sleeved shirts when riding in the summer
I think it was in last month’s Bike magazine?
Lazarus would be envious of the lives this subject get. The topic that will not die.
Always an amusing mass-debate ensues though.
I saw a guy in Finchley this morning riding a moped with just a pair of shorts and trainers. Not even a t-shirt (not that it would have made a difference! )… I thought I’d taken a wrong turn and ended up in spain! :w00t:
As has already been said, let them do it. They’ll soon learn when they have their first skin graft! 
Well. I suppose that’s why people have ventilated summer gear, and (hopefully) the sense to stop for drinks breaks, isn’t it?
As for the French…pah!
Sorry for dredging up an done to death topic! :o
Yes consume many lucozades
I saw a rider today wearing nothing more than a condom and an earing, she looked a bit silly, the condom would have been far better on her pillion, which was a dog, not strapped on and free to jump off at the lights. Some people eh ?
I was in Angel today and a courier(somebody that should know better) had no shirt on.
I was coming back home last night down the A1(M) and caught sight of a horrifying vision in my rear view mirror . Some muppet on a Bandit S was filtering at ( very ) high speeds in just a t-shirt , shorts and a pair of feckin’ " espadrils " ( proper '80s retro ) !
To top it all , and what really churned my stomach , was that his pillion ( a small female probably no more than 7 or 8 years old ) was gripped around him wearing a very thin summer dress and flip flops :w00t::w00t:
Bearing in mind he must have come past the inside of me at an excess of 100mph ( do Bandits go THAT fast :ermm: ) and weaving through traffic I would class this twit as a grade one tossa - if not for his own safety gear but for that of his ( probable ) daughter !!!
And he was wearing feckin’ " espadrills " :blink:
Guy above on bandit is obviously a tw*t - it’s his skin though - but putting his kid on the back dressed like that is unforgiveable. Interestingly Bike magazine pointed out last month that French bike cops ‘judge that the hazards of overheating are greater than the benefits of protective kit - choosing in summer to fly round on their FJRs wearing short-sleeved shirt, bri-nylon slacks and a gun’. . .
Yes…Every time the sun shines we get these posts, but…i wonder if the guys with the bare bits, look at us booted and suited people and think…look at THEM tossers?
They don’t and they use a glorified scrubbing brush. Sort of cross between a nail brush and a wire brush and it’s fugging painfull and I had full leathers on. :crying: Sleeve pulled up my arm and the jacket rode up my back. (See avitar for results, 1 ex sprint 955) “We need to know if we got it all out” they told me. “HOW??? does it stop hurting then when it’s all gone?” No comment from them and no it doesn’t. :crying:
I saw a bloke last night on a fazer in a bike jacket, gloves, helmet, leather jeans and his pillion little lad about 7 or 8 in a t-shirt and school trousers, pair of sneakers. At least the lad had on a crash helmet and a pair of gloves. Bloke was doing 80 - 90 in a 50
2 power rangers in shorts, vest no gloves and trainers steam past me on the A41 today while i had all my gear on.
It only takes one mistake to realise that tar mac and skin don`t mix well.
Is Morgawr back already then lol? 
i know it’s boring but…
i had an accident a couple of years back. middle of summer, had been riding in jeans and trainers but with armoured textile jacket and gloves for a few weeks (had been bloody hot). then this one evening i decided to put all my proper gear on for the ride home. coming through oval an oncoming car turned right, should i say swerved, across my path about 20 feet in front of me (no indication etc). i was doing 25-30mph. was never gonna stop in time and had no where to go. needless to say, locked front wheel, down with the bike and into said car. was still on the bike when we impacted. snapped the clip ons clean off, mashed into the side of the car blah blah blah. from my injuries if i hadn’t have been wearing boots i’d be minus a foot or it would’ve been seriously smashed. and if i hadn’t have been wearing proper trousers i would’ve had a skin graft about 20cm[sup]2[/sup] on the side of my ass.
that taught me. NEVER ride without full gear now. just isn’t worth it :ermm:
