Everyone's always talking ATGATT

[Knifemaker]

Sounds like your HD friend is already paralyzed. From the neck up.

LOL.... Yeah, had a couple HD riders once say "You look like a Power Ranger" and laugh...

I turned and said "Thank you. I'd rather look like a Power Ranger than one of the Village People"

 

[Uncle Hud]

Hudson: I don't provide my opinion unless asked, but I will not ride a second time with folks who are not fully geared up. If bad shit happens, I want my riding partners as protected as possible.

Are you a Nazi Asshole? Maybe; maybe not. Depends on how you deliver your message.

 

[FJRPittsburgh]

Ditto. If suggesting riders to gear up for safety is a bad idea, I'm full of bad ideas.

 

[FJRPittsburgh]

An HD rider passed my son and I on a city street. It was OK though because he had a protective bandana on while saving lives with his loud pipes.

 

[HotRodZilla]

I told all you guys about the time my youngest daughter, who was 5 at the time saw a couple on their bad-ass HD and asked me, "Dad, why is that lady dressed like a pirate?" I almost fell out of my car, I was laughing so hard. It was especially funny because I've never said that in front of them. Haha..

 

[Big Sky]

For Infrared... I PM'd ya too but just in case... I spotted some "new" Klim gear (said to be ultra high quality) in 2XL and 3XL sizes for about 65¢ on the dollar.

https://helena.craigslist.org/mpo/5388280936.html

 

[Big Sky]

Ignore double-post

 

[airboss]

Aw, who needs ATGATT.

And the only rash was the top knuckle of the pinky finger. A spot about the size of a pin head where the asphalt burned though the glove,

 

[Knifemaker]

Aw, who needs ATGATT.


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And the only rash was the top knuckle of the pinky finger. A spot about the size of a pin head where the asphalt burned though the glove,

How'ja get that jacket to stick to the wall like that?

 

[hppants]

Enjoying lurking on this thread. My contribution - please don't forget the details:

1. If you wear separate pants and jacket, zip them together. On my latest slide down the belt sander, I'm convinced that saved my jacket from riding up and getting rash on my back. The severity of the rash on the back of the jacket was very impressive.

2. Make sure the arms and waist on the jacket are cinched tight. Unfortunately, the "Velcro-only" cuff and sleeve adjustments on my jacket during my last off was not enough to keep the sleeve from sliding up my arm. I now have a 2" x 6" scar on my left forearm to remind me of the importance of this for the rest of my life. Never again - ONLY a zippered sleeve cuff and SNAPS for adjustment for Pants.

 

[airboss]

you throw it against the wall while the nylon is still hot and sticky from sliding down the road.

 

[Big Sky]

Aw, who needs ATGATT.

And the only rash was the top knuckle of the pinky finger. A spot about the size of a pin head where the asphalt burned though the glove,

When my uncle crashed in Idaho awhile back he, too, sustained road rash...on just one joint of his pinky finger. His gear was destroyed, especially the helmet, while he had a broken collar bone, broken ribs and a punctured lung. Nothing a five-day hospital stay and gobs of morphine didn't fix. Had he not been geared? Dead...or at least one very ugly individual where he would have had his face scraped off. And he might be pretty stupid, too, considering the likelihood of severe brain damage.

 

[bigjohnsd]

https://www.motorcyclegear.com/customerscloset/textile_jackets/

 

[Niehart]

bigjohnsd, that's a heck of a good deal on the new FirstGear TPG Rainier Jacket.

https://www.motorcyclegear.com/customerscloset/textile_jackets/90663_first_gear_tpg_rainier_jacket_.html

And Fred would like it because it's a short jacket in front with a long back. It also has the good armor, even in the back.

 

[csi]

3 (?) years ago, myself and a few others from the Midwest met up on NW Arkansas for a weekend of riding. Me and another guy from the same town I live in then ran up to Springfield to visit a friend, have dinner, etc.....we spent the night, and hit the road for home the next morning.

It was probably 80 when we hit the road at 9 am.....I was on my WIng, he and his wife were on their Ultra Classic. We left Springfield, and took all secondary roads to Pineville, Mo. When we hit the road, I was wearing a modular helmet, blue jeans, boots and a polo shirt. They of course were in jeans, sleeveless shirts and novelty helmets.

By noon or so, the temps had hit 95, and were continuing to climb. I ditched the polo shirt, for a LS shirt, which I doused in water before putting my mesh jacket over the top of that.......my two riding companions looked at me like I had suddenly sprouted a second head.....I tried to explain evaporative cooling to them, only to be met with cries of "That can't possibly work".....

2 hours later, we were sitting at a gas station, with her head sticking in the freezer......she is beet red.......dizzy.......how close to an E/R Trip, I don't know......but when we left the gas station an hour later, she was wearing a l/s shirt, which she kept dousing in water.

 

[bigjohnsd]

I was simply amazed last summer riding across Many ntana and Oregon in 100f plus heat how effective my Long Distance Comfort shirt was when wet under my Klim Latitude Misano Jacket. I wet the whole shirt, closed all the vents on the Jacket, opened up the wrist to let air flow in, if the wrists were open all the wsybi was almost too cold, worked better with them open about half and the shirt stayed damp about 3.5 hours. I also used the same techniques in hot and humid Indiana in mid July with equal effectiveness. I have a first gear mesh jacket and tried the wet shirt under that as well. It also works, but, the evaporation takes place much faster and I didn't feel any cooler, had to rewet every hour.

Fricking auto correct

 

[puppychow]

There is Freedom,

...and then there is Free-Dumb.

 

[Bill Lumberg]

I don't wear a jacket when it's super hot. Sue me. I'm thinking about picking up a mesh jacket to replace the icon I passed to my son. But I'm not sure it'd get much use.

 

[BobCo]

I don't wear a jacket when it's super hot. Sue me Skin graft me. I'm thinking about picking up a mesh jacket to replace the icon I passed to my son. But I'm not sure it'd get much use.

Couldn't help myself. Of course it's your decision. No harm intended. Picking up a mesh jacket is a great idea - I just got one for a trip east this late spring/early summer.

 

[Bill Lumberg]

I had one I liked about 60K miles ago but the zipper kept falling apart, and another I bought and passed on as mentioned above. I might pick up another just to see if it appeals to me. I don't know what's good and what's not in meshville.