Re: where gear is optional, why do so few choose to wear it, and why do people limit themselves to a "look"?

 

I think this is a totally sincere posts. Still... pretty amazing. To
give the guy a break, I have read similar posts from Ducati riding
cookoos that think it's perfectly okay to blow by multiple other
vehicles, crossing double yellows, because "they can"... and they need
to "ride their own ride".

...pretty good bait though..

 
  I think the gear question is important because the general
perception, among those that do not ride, is that motorcycles are very
dangerous and stupid.  When some folks find out I ride, they invariably
give me horror stories of somebody, somewhere, they knew that was
hurt/killed riding a motorcycle.  Invariably if you were to ask these
folks "was he wearing a helmet?", the answer would likely be no.
Invariably the story is about some young speed crazed maniac who
crashed in a single-vehicle roadside collision.

  Now, it's true when somebody looks at wearing alot of gear, they
might conclude that a person wearing alot of gear is a speed freak.  I
think it's much more likely, though, that a non-rider looking at
somebody not wearing gear riding a motorcycle, would conclude that
person is stupid or reckless.

  Personally, I'd rather be judged a speed freak and prove others wrong
than wear nothing and prove others right.  Ironicly of course now we
are talking about creating a perception for others, something I said
earlier I believe that alot of the "biker" look is about.  OTOH, you
can go the opposite and use a personal commitment to minimizing risk as
a public statement.  If a person cares about riding on two wheels as a
socially acceptable, wouldn't a person want to project a positive image
to people that don't ride?    I would think if you think motorcycling
is good for yourself, it's good for alot of other people too, and
you'ld want more people to ride, right?  Even people that might not be
so commited your own personal beliefs, preferences, and ideologies.
Let's face it, the number of people welcomming road rash and bumped
heads is probably pretty darn low.

 wrote:

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BWAHAHAHAHA!   Yeah.  You are so intelligent that you cannot conceive
of people having a different opinion than you.

 ls650@sbcglobal.net (Paladin) wrote in news:45749200.635890921
@news.la.sbcglobal.net:


Don't worry...  I'm sure he has "alot" more to tell us...


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...and drunk driving was a socially acceptible, if not encouraged,
practice.

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