The squids are out

[Mag7C]

My selfish opinion is: why give a damn they aren't wearing gear? Maybe suggest they put something on, but don't push it. Unless I know and care about someone personally it's none of my business.
And even then I don't harp on my friends for smoking or whatever. They know the risks, they respect my choices, I respect theirs.

[Kal]

I must be in a moderate mood...

Talk to the lads, it may be that they really haven't worked out that they can come off and get badly hurt. People do the most amasingly stupid things because they don't have the facts or have never thought about the facts.

Of course once someone has the facts then it's up to them what they choose to do about it.

I have a friend who rides in fingerless gloves and an open face helmet. I'd never dream of lecturing him or even not riding with him because he has spent as many years as I've been alive riding, spent his formative years riding for a Police sponsered stunt team and has never been off.

By the same token his partner rides with all the gear all the time.

I'd say get to know the lads, its always good to know your local bikers, and find out why they choose not to wear gear but don't go overboard with it.

[Scoutmedic]

Zootech, I'm sorry if I offended you. That "stupid people" line was meant as a joke. I sometimes forget that I'm not speaking with other EMS minded folk.

Again, I apologize for any hard feelings I may have caused. However, the beginning of my post with the TMW suggestion I still stand by.

[Heimdall Einherjar]

I'm serious about the wiggers thing.
Don't give them life-saving advice if they are a couple of wannabe rappers who listen to Ludakris and The Game.

In fact, try and run them off the road when no one's looking...

[Sev]

I'm serious about the wiggers thing.
Don't give them life-saving advice if they are a couple of wannabe rappers who listen to Ludakris and The Game.

In fact, try and run them off the road when no one's looking...

Wiggers are people too.

[Heimdall Einherjar]

So are Bin Laden and Paris Hilton...

[Britjoe]

Im shocked with some of the comments in this thread...

[Apitoxin]

It's not right to walk up to a stranger and tell someone that they HAVE to put on gear.

Striking up a conversation and talking about gears, giving them information, and wishing them luck on acquiring such for their own safety is different.

Cause the day Mr. Squid gets his sandles caught on his foot peg and runs into the back of me on my bike at a stop sign, is the day he dies.

[ZooTech]

Zootech, I'm sorry if I offended you. That "stupid people" line was meant as a joke. I sometimes forget that I'm not speaking with other EMS minded folk.

Again, I apologize for any hard feelings I may have caused. However, the beginning of my post with the TMW suggestion I still stand by.

No hard feelings, Scout. It's just that we, the motorcycling community, are under attack from a number of fronts - and now's not the time to bicker within our own ranks. I'd be willing to bet that more than 90% of the riders who show up at Daytona and Sturgis do so with less than "proper" gear, so it's an argument that will never be won by the safety conscious. Just as motorcyclists are willing to take more risks than full-time cagers, bikers are willing to take a few more risks than are motorcyclists - and both do so in the name of recreation.

[SuperRookie]

The problem is that squidly behavior usually ends up carrying over and hurting other people as well.

No more so than smoking or excessive drinking. You can't save the world so just look out for you and yours and let others be.

I meant that squids are prone to do "squidly" things...so just remember that when some squid passes you on the inside in a curve...