First squid of the year.

This morning near Bradford.
Full face helmet, T-shirt, shorts, trainers. That's all.
No socks or gloves.

 

Should I have announced that I was riding in sandals on Friday?

 

The usual description of squid is the opposite, no? You've just described
me, and I ain't no squid.

He did have a bike? Only you didn't mention that.

 

Yesterday one in Roydon (Essex) on a twist-n-go; full-face not done-up,
footie shorts, flip-flops.

 

Planet Health, Safety Nazi party.

 

I saw a kid on a scooter yesterday evening - vest, shorts, flip-flops, matt
black open-face lid, shades. I didn't think about what peril he was in,
just how 'tippeek fronsays' he looked.

 

On the East Lancs Road this afternoon, a bloke on a Ducati Monsterish thing.
He was riding alongside the main road in a sort of slip road but it ends at
a set of lights and takes the traffic across the East Lancs.

The lights for the main road were well and truly on green and we were going
through the lights at anywhere between 60 and 90mph. Dickhead on the Duc
decided the lights meant **** all to him and proceeded to just ride through
them and across a 4 lane road that's not much less than a full on motorway.
I actually don't think he ever saw the lights and he certainly never gave a
glance up the main road. My arse REALLY clenched and I missed the fucking
twat by millimetres and not a lot of them either.

Proper boots, but jeans and a T-shirt, open face lid and no gloves. The bike
looked brand spanking too, but he won't last long if he can't see traffic
lights.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Sounds a bit overdressed, IYAM. What's wrong with flip-flops, FFS?

 

Standard equipment for a moped rider.

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Guess so. I expect I'll be seeing a few when I go back on clinical
placement next month.

 

That's rich coming from someone who daren't even lick his own earplugs.
I live in Coventry but I was fettling computers overnight for a travel agent in Nige's fair city.

 

Socks or bare feet? The eternal question with sandals.
Far less angst to avoid them altogether.

 

Good god, they must pay *really* well

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Suzuki GSX-R600 Racebike

 

And? It's his skin.

 

Certainly, but it costs us money to hose the fucker off the road. Good
quality kit does work, as we all know.

But, if they want to look cool, well, as you say....

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Suzuki GSX-R600 Racebike

 

Changing the subject slightly, what is the opinion of the learned
experts on kevlar armoured jeans.
Which ones and are they worth the money ?.

 

Flip-flops are made of contaminating plastig. We carbon-neutral aware Dagos
ride with "alpargatas" made of natural fibers (unbeatable in high
temperatures).

http://www.regalosyeventos.com/alpargatas.php

(scooter beach-going only, I have air vented boots for summer riding)

 

It is your money spent in the NHS.

 

In Spain, mesh trousers are the choice of people.

 

In the skin graft dept or the organ donor?


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19