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Several months ago, I don't know how I found it, but I found an article about a young blonde model who was in a motorcycle accident. She was wearing only shorts and sandals and ended up having to have multiple skin graphs (like on her whole backside). I don't know if any of you recall this article? Anyway, it was on a website that had seen her picture somewhere and contacted her wondering what had really happened. It was an eye-opening story and just to show some of those beginners who get cocky and don't want to take the BRC what can happen, I'd like to find the article again, but don't know what the link is.

wtlf101 wrote:Several months ago, I don't know how I found it, but I found an article about a young blonde model who was in a motorcycle accident. She was wearing only shorts and sandals and ended up having to have multiple skin graphs (like on her whole backside). I don't know if any of you recall this article? Anyway, it was on a website that had seen her picture somewhere and contacted her wondering what had really happened. It was an eye-opening story and just to show some of those beginners who get cocky and don't want to take the BRC what can happen, I'd like to find the article again, but don't know what the link is.

http://www.speedfreakinc.com/content/ar ... queen.html

That's going into my bookmarks.

I wish I could tell every woman I see on the back of some guy's bike wearing next to nothing this same story.

But I can't, and it pains me to know that they have no idea just how ignorant they really are.

wow im so glad i read that. new appreciation...

always wear gear

It was rather warm today when I geared up for the commute home from work, on went the heavy black leather jacket, the full leather gauntlets and black full faced helmet. Stuck in traffic waiting to hit the freeway, I was sweating like a stuck pig. Finally on the freeway and at speed (around 120 KPM, or 70 MPH), a kid wearing only a t-shirt, shorts and at least a full faced helmet rips by me....and I think to myself...."What a f'ing fool, not for the speed, but because the silly bastrd was almost completely unprotected in case of a spill.....mined you I think the same thing when I come across those Harley riders wearing nothing but a beanie cap.

Fourteen years ago I learn a first hand lesson in the value of gear, and I'd rather be sweating like a stuck pig geared up then laying in hospital sweating in fear of skin graft operations. Back then, all they had to do was rebuild my shattered leg (no amount of gear is going save you from serious break damage when you get t-boned and your leg get caught between your engine and the front bumper of 1 Ton Pick Up), my helmet protected my face and head, my riding gear saved me from a major case of road rash. Gear and helmet up always.

ceemes wrote:It was rather warm today when I geared up for the commute home from work, on went the heavy black leather jacket, the full leather gauntlets and black full faced helmet. Stuck in traffic waiting to hit the freeway, I was sweating like a stuck pig. Finally on the freeway and at speed (around 120 KPM, or 70 MPH), a kid wearing only a t-shirt, shorts and at least a full faced helmet rips by me....and I think to myself...."What a f'ing fool, not for the speed, but because the silly bastrd was almost completely unprotected in case of a spill.....mined you I think the same thing when I come across those Harley riders wearing nothing but a beanie cap.

Fourteen years ago I learn a first hand lesson in the value of gear, and I'd rather be sweating like a stuck pig geared up then laying in hospital sweating in fear of skin graft operations. Back then, all they had to do was rebuild my shattered leg (no amount of gear is going save you from serious break damage when you get t-boned and your leg get caught between your engine and the front bumper of 1 Ton Pick Up), my helmet protected my face and head, my riding gear saved me from a major case of road rash. Gear and helmet up always.

That's why I have 3 jackets. A mesh one for the warm weather, the leather one for cooler weather and just for going out without a bike, and the First Gear Kilimanjaro to remind me not to buy jackets like that again.

I wear pants whether I'm riding or not so leg sweat isn't too bothersome.

DieMonkeys wrote:I wish I could tell every woman I see on the back of some guy's bike wearing next to nothing this same story.

it's not just limited to women on the back of some guy's bike... check out the guy (or girl) driving the bike - half the time they're clad in next to nothing... i can't count the number of times i've seen some rider out there with a full face helmet protecting their head and almost nothing protecting the rest of their body... gotta protect more than just your head...

Thefamily and I went down to Kansas City from Omaha a couple weeks ago and I can't count the number of riders I seen wearing nothing in the way of gear besides the beanie. We were on Interstate 29 which is 70 MPH now in Iowa and I couldn't believe what I saw. The worst one was a guy and girl, each on their own bike, riding north, both of them were wearing shorts, tank tops and the beanie.

I'm not a praying man, but I said a silent one for them to make it where they were going without incident.

Montymouse wrote:Thefamily and I went down to Kansas City from Omaha a couple weeks ago and I can't count the number of riders I seen wearing nothing in the way of gear besides the beanie. We were on Interstate 29 which is 70 MPH now in Iowa and I couldn't believe what I saw. The worst one was a guy and girl, each on their own bike, riding north, both of them were wearing shorts, tank tops and the beanie.

I'm not a praying man, but I said a silent one for them to make it where they were going without incident.

yea, you see that here all the time. there will always be stupid people. there will always be uninformed people.

nothing you can really do about it but silently laugh in your helmet, or perhaps curse them for being idiots.

Lots of scantily clad riders with only helmets on (helmet law here) out this week (since it is finally quite WARM for a spell). It's all their own personal choice and I just hope they never have to experience an incident where gear would have saved or helped.

It makes me sad when I see a rider who is fully geared up and he has his girl, a girl, or passenger on the bike with no gear on at all just the mandatory helmet...