Non-motorcycle owner, here.
Hey, did you know...?
Nah, I figure y'all know the odds of painful personal kersplat increase when you remove the 3000+lbs of steel from around your body while at speed and go al fresco on the road. And considering I take a Fred-powered bicycle on the road, I really have no kickstand to prop up yet another "motorcycles be dangerous" harangue.
What I would like to comment on is that I have been seeing a lot more riders dressed in what looks like modern-day armor on motorcycles. Helmet looks like they always did. But some rather obvious plates/padding on chest/back/arms, as well as some sort of stiffeners in the pants. Heavy boots and gloves, too. Definitely not the crotch-rocket uniform of t-shirt, shorts, and flip-flips I recall seeing many times in high school.
Is that the "ATGAT" that I see bandied about? Looks....hot. As in, "sweating your nads off" hot.
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For my own part, wife & I have cut out the riskiest pastimes until after the kids are 18YO or out of college. SCUBA, sky diving, motorcycles are just a few things on the "Wait until dependents gone" list. Of course, our youngest's graduation present (to ourselves) is likely to be "His & Hers" what I think are called dual purpose motorcycles for the missus & myself. A girlfriend in college had one and it seemed like it was made from concentrated fun. Powerful enough to tote my bulk (at the time) real fast but went anywhere we wanted to go, road or no road.