How to gid rid of a nagging pillion...

So go. Put on as much as you feel comfortable wearing, get on the bike,
and ride it. If you feel too exposed, go back and put some more on.

There's always that nagging shredded-skin thought, but if you go fast
enough the wind noise more than drowns it out.

PS. I've never worn full leathers in my life, and have had the grisly
leg injury to show for it. Did it teach me to wear leathers? No. Did
it teach me just how much it hurts when things go wrong when not wearing
leathers? Yes.

Call it an educated risk.

 

Search me.

 

I suspect that if SWMBO saw me with a large-breasted bird on the back
leathers wouldn't help.

 

Well, it looked like a deliberate get-off to me. Obviously she'd realised
that she'd mistakenly hooked up with Crap Wheelie Boy.

 

Always. You'll feel incredibly vulnerable. But it hones the senses and makes
you realise the risks you take when fully protected.

 

That's gotta hurt a tad.
I'd like to know quite how she manages it though. She appears to bottle it,
and launch herself off the back in a most unusual fashion.
I've seen friends lose pillions from acceleration/wheelies, but they've all
landed on their arses or backs.

 

Well, they were large before she wore them away against the tarmac.

 

Getting off like that is a bit rash. ...

 

A bit? I should say it was gravely rash.

 

If you go into an HG shop or Bikestyle near Coleshil they have some new
stuff. Armoured abrasion resistant jackets which have been tea bagged. Not
bad looking either. That and a pair of Hood Jeans should do.

 

Until my off in 2001 I was pro leather, then for some reason I started to
think "**** it" on nice days.

1 mile or 50, makes no odds. I binned the XJR at the bottom of my road in
'99.

 

Hmmm, and how carefully were you riding at the EOSM all those years ago ?

 

Quite. Now then, where's that Blaney geezer. Now, do you understand why
I generally prefer leather to wearing a suit on a bike?

 

Lady Nina wrote:

Me, personally, I'd leather up, even in this weather, for 50 miles. Or
at least Jeans and leather jacket.

For maybe a couple of miles to the pub/shop/mates house, out of rush
hours, then I'd Tshirt and Shorts it, with a pair of gloves.

Blaney will be along shortly to tell you/me that leather doesn't
actually help prevent gravel rash, you/I only think it does.

 

Perhaps, not being acquainted with the physics of wheelies, she reached
the hasty and inaccurate conclusion that the bike was going over
backwards and elected to take the eject option.

Bad call.

 

I did.

Went for full kit. Sulking because *every* twisty I went down has
sprouted road works, over banding, new speed limits, new roundabouts
and the final fucking irony on one of my favourite bits, which I know
is free of all the above, came round the first twisties, starting to
open it up for the long straight before the next bit and there's a
police van bimbling along. <growl>

60 feels hot in full leathers. Now I'm necking water to try and stave
off the dehydration headache that's hovering.

I think I would have compensated in less but wouldn't have enjoyed it
as much.

Indeed. Oh well I can go out again in a bit I suppose. Though I need
to watch Brainiac so I know what evil ideas the kids are picking up.

 

More kit buying is definitely going to happen. But given a choice of
kit or a SOB...

 

I crashed in cords (I've mentioned this before); open face and a
Belstaff. No morphine for me.

In LN's case I'd go the halfway house, not full leathers but jeans and a
jacket - should be fine.

 

Lady Nina wrote

Well. Given a lifetime researching this particular I would suggest the
answer is: It depends which shop you walk into first.

Two sets of gear is A Good Thing. One for winter one for summer.

 

Lady Nina wrote:
[snip]

[snip to leather up or not]

<fx: rummage, furtle, rummage>

Aha! Here we are... I knew it would be around here somewhere.

http://tinyurl.com/55y36

Says it all really.....

Chris
With the scars to prove that surfing tarmac in normal 501 jeans is (OK,
OK, _can_ be) a Very Bad Thing.