So...I assume you also wear full racing leathers @ ALL times because other attire will not offer the same level of protection?
And now, there is a new neck support, designed by a Dr./biker....DON'T RIDE WITHOUT THAT!
And you can add some airbags too...
BTW...nothing can protect you from some types of crashes...life is a compromise.
Remember what happens to folks when they assume, Ogre?
I very clearly asserted
my own choice and the reasoning behind it, but I'll make my decision even more crystal clear for the benefit of yourself or anyone else that might be curious with respect to my motives.
It's a virtual given that we all understand the risky nature of our two-wheeled avocation. Further, most riders would agree that their head is the most important part of the body to protect from the wide array of hazards that threaten us as riders. After all, you can break or injure pretty much any other part of the body and, generally speaking, maintain the probability of having a reasonably high degree of quality of life post-recovery. Injure your head/brain sufficiently and that bet goes out the window.
After 42 years of riding I had a deer run out in front of me and it was impossible to avoid the ensuing, really bad get-off. Had I been wearing any other sort of helmet other than the integral fullface I thankfully wore that day or,
possibly a modular fullface, I would have surely sustained massive head and facial trauma injuries or, more likely, I would have been killed instantly. Since I had done my homework years earlier, having decided that there was a possibility of a modular's locking mechanism or hinges not holding together upon impact, in retrospect, I am grateful to have made the decision about headgear that I did, so grateful in fact that I believe that I owe my life to that decision.
Subsequent to that accident, I became a fulltime, all-the-time, no exceptions adherent to ATGATT, not simply a selective or occasional user of full protective gear. Now, I know that you were being somewhat tongue-in-cheek with regard to your wisecracks about wearing racing leathers and other more advanced or state-of-the-art protective gear, nonetheless, I found your remarks to be both gratuitous and callous.
This thread is about people's choices about protective gear. If we are to take your inconsiderate or unthoughtful commentary to its extreme (something you obviously did not intend), than none of us should ever throw our legs over a motorcycle because its simply too dangerous. Hence, what you did state was really unnecessary, no more, no less.
Surely pretty much all the choices we make in life involve some degree of compromise. Perhaps you could have compromised your criticality a bit more before making such a sardonic post, by simply reasserting the obvious, that the level or degree of caution one takes in this shared passion of ours called motorcycling, is totally up to the individual, other than for when some aspect of our safety is mandated by law.
Oh and Warp 9.9, our resident know-it-all, is right about one thing, but it isn't that folks that meet me would love to provide the head trauma for me.
It's the salt advice that he's spot on about.
