Race Tracks in Sydney

"Zebee Johnstone" wrote

Ditto! I have no desire for armour. My R-Jays jacket came with some
hard plastic bits in the sleeves that made it harder to put on and (I
felt) limited my movement. They're on a shelf in the shed somewhere. I
have never owned any leather pants. I did try a pair on once but I
felt very awkward walking in them and a bit of a ponce. Jeans for me.
In forty years and 400,000 kms of riding I have once come off after
colliding with another vehicle. That was my fault but it happened at
15 km/h and I did not sustain any injuries. My other three offs all
involved fauna. It's hard to predict what an emu is going to do next
when even the emu doesn't know.

Very much like you Zebee, I very rarely find myself in a dangerous or
near miss situation, and then I ask myself how I got there.

YOU, and you alone, are responsible for your safety.

Theo

 

In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:17:25 GMT

There is a difference between normal riding and hooning... In that
deliberately pushing the edge means a higher chance of falling over said
edge.

So someone who is out there with the specific mindset of "I am going to
go fast and push myself and my bike" is going to have a different set of
needs to someone who is not doing that.

However.... Thinking "I can push because I am wearing good gear" is
silly. Better to realise "the good gear will take care of the small
stuff, I have to take care of the big stuff". If you ride over your
limit on public roads, the trees and poles and rocks and stuff that they
remove from racetracks will stop the sliding. By stopping you. With a
thump. If you aren't going that fast to begin with because you scrubbed
off speed when you were able then maybe the thump won't be that hard.

But then again... I broke my arm above the wrist in a getoff at 10kmh or
so, and ain't no armoured leathers in the world would have stopped that
happening.

Sometimes, the price you pay for the joy that is riding a bike is having
to say "hello Nurse..."

Zebee

 

Neither do leathers, so wear what you like.

Al

 

Is that why girls like foreplay?

Hammo

 

<Bad Spanish accent>
"Eventually"
</Bad Spanish accent>

Hammo

Coopers or Cascade?

 

Hey, send me your email, it bounced, re operation....

Hammo

 

I figure that I'm fucked either way if I hit a pole, tree, or car. But I
would like some protection against bitumen and gravel.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:38:59 +1100

Which is what kevlar jeans will give you.

Armoured leathers may cushion a bit more, and will possibly survive for
another go-round.

Zebee

 

On 21/1/04 10:38 PM, in article

Buy a car.

Hammo

 

I, in turn, figure it's a pain thing. If you can handle the
pain associated with being skin-less for the several weeks
that it takes to get a skinfull again, then go for your
life.

Me, I'll take the kevlar jeans. Other stuff, well, when I
grow up, I'll re-look at it all.

G

 

A Volvo even.

Theo