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Posted by Thumper on July 20, 2007, 12:37 pm
>
>> On hot summer days I like to dress in shorts and sandals
>> and go riding and feel the cool breeze on my skin.
>>
>> There, I said it.
>>
>> Now I am well aware of the hard, abrasive black stuff
>> going by at 60 mph just inches under my feet and
>> a few other potential hazards, so I'm careful.
>>
> EVERYBODY likes the feel of wind on their skin.
>
> When I was 18 I had long hair and used to love the feel of riding in
> shorts and a t-shirt without a helmet (no helmet law back then) with wet
> hair as it whipped the back of my neck. I figure I've used up 8 of my 9
> lives and now, although I don't often wear protective pants in the summer
> on short rides, I DO wear my armored jacket.
>
> Every time.
>
> The consequences are just not worth it...
>
> Oh, and BTW, it really doesn't matter if you're careful. But then deep
> down you know that already. Bottom line: it's your skin.
>
> Dave S.
Yesss, the good thing about protective gear is that wearing it will allow
you to have an open casket. I was talking to an Angeles Forest ranger a few
weeks ago. he told me it made little difference what the canyon racers wear
up there. The outcome was always the same. Death, or compound fractures,
discovered when the "protective gear" was cut off the unconscious biker.
The protective gear may help in the first one or two bounces, but, unless
you are trained in falling, that's about it.
I must say, however, in the several crashes I've had, in the last 30 years,
I've always been grateful that I was wearing a DOT approved helmet. I have
20 years of them, ruined, hanging in my garage as a reminder.
I did ride without a helmet, when it was cool (temperature wise), in Utah
and Arizona.
Thumper
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