First squid of the year.

Who gives a shit.

I did 170mph on a single-carriageway A road this afternoon. I was
wearing lid, gloves,leather jacket, jeans and trainers.

 

Safety nazi, you were overdressed!

 

I just rode my bike in shorts, T-shirt and sandals - admittedly I was
just moving it from my driveway to my garage.

In Malta this week I saw a guy wearing the same sort of things get off
a 2008 ZX10R and remove his 500 quid Arai - not a difficult thing to do
as he'd cut the straps out of it. Two minutes earlier me and my cousin
had watched from a distance as he howled up a bit of dual carriageway
at well over a ton.

 

Before or after use ?

Yours or someone elses ?

Paul.

 

I only did 150, and I was wearing full leathers - but I'm at least 50% more
incompetent than you, so that makes me tougher.

Or something.

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

The biggest cause of injury in motorcycle accidents isn't lack of
protective clothing. Its motorcycle accidents.

Once you start being a safety nazI and saying people shouldn't ride
bikes without a,b,c or d then its far more logical to say they
shouldn't ride bikes in the first place.

 

Probably in A&E or in x-ray.

 

The biggest cause of divorce is marriage, and the biggest cause of death is
birth, taking that logic one or two steps further.

 

Nah, they should make crashing bikes a capital offence. If you stack it and
can't leg it before the 'ambulance' crew get there then you get pretty much
the same treatment as a racehorse with a broken leg.

No strain on the NHS there, Darwin in action and just think of the money
saved on paramedic training ...

"Can you use a bolt gun?
"Yeah, guess so"
"Great - here's your ambulance"

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Did I criticize him?

 

http://www.gethan.org/images/thewaragainstboredom/2007/Spring2007/socks.jpg

 

Sorry, I didn't realise the term "squid" refered to an actual
cephalopod.

Although what a marine invertebrate chooses to ride a bike in is his
own business.

 

Hope you're wearing a helmet while back-pedaling at that sort of speed.

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

So fucking what?

 

I've done 160 in shorts and tshirt numerous times.

On a bike with D207s fitted.

I even crashed in shorts and tshirt. And hit a brick wall. Hurt a bit,
that.

I'm dead now, mind.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ogden

Well, that explains the smell.

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I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

As one of a few folk who can state, pretty much uncategorically, that
their lives were saved by wearing protective clothing[1] I certainly
can't disagree with that. But if anyone had ever tried to force me to
wear leathers, proper boots, gloves and back protector every time I
wanted to ride I'd have told them to shove it up their arse.

I still don't agree with the helmet and seatbelt laws, although it's
very rare that I'd choose to ride/drive without them. But in principle
the choice must be mine.


[1]
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/11afc71ee4c1ec01

 

And just so you bunch of cunts know, a 'first swallow of the summer' post
doesn't mean I think that swallows should be banned.

I'm pretty sure that risk compensation applies and, for example, someone in
shorts is less likely to get his knee down.

 

Oh, I can beat that:

Yesterday afternoon, on the A10 near Bush Hill Park:

blue/white R1, shorts, t-shirt, trainers *no* helmet.

 

The "bi" in "bike" means it has 2 wheels. "Quad" means it has 4 wheels,
so not a bike at all.