Atgatt

[Elevener]

So how many do and why or why not?

I used to be a cut off tshirt and no helmet type of guy. Always wore boots and jeans though. ( yeah I was a harley rider )

Now back when I first got a license at 15 I even rode without shoes and have the scars to prove it!

Now its full face helmet (flip up), kevlar jeans, jacket, motorcycle boots and gloves. I ride to memphis and back almost every other weekend, hasnt really been unbearably hot. I thought it would be.

While I know atgatt isnt magic it will sure help in the smaller wrecks, hell it will even help in the bigger ones. I dont really think its an older thing cause Im still pretty stupid. I just dont want to scrub road rash.

[kjohnson]

I've always worn the boots, jacket, helmet and jeans. after the first big bumblebee to the knuckles at 100kph, gloves got added to the list.

[CatatonicBug]

As far as I'm concerned, a modular (flip-up) helmet does not constitute a full-face. This picture was enough to convice me that I will never wear anything but a true full-face helmet. WAY too much chance of hitting the chin, and that's the weakest part of a modular helmet.



I always wear my armored textile jacket, zipped all the way up (I have a mesh one for summer, and a non-mesh one with a removable liner for winter) and gloves (also mesh for summer, insulated for winter), no matter how far I am going. I ride to work, so I do wear my dress shoes and slacks for my 1.3-mile commute, but casual Fridays or weekend rides will see me in my jeans and boots. If I am going on a longer ride, I also have a pair of armored mesh pants for wearing over my jeans (I have also worn shorts under them).

[Smash]

Me: GMAX full faced helmet (68S), 3/4 length armored textile jacket, armored pants (mesh or winter insulated), boots (not armored, this is my chink), armored full fingered gloves. EVERY RIDE.

Karla, my girlfriend: Scorpion full faced helmet (EX400), 3/4 length armored textile jacket, armored pants (mesh or winter insulated), boots (not armored, this is her chink), full fingered gloves (will get armored ones when she starts riding). EVERY RIDE.

My jacket is high viz. she wears a high viz vest of her jacket.

Get the idea?

[CatatonicBug]

GMAX full faced helmet (68S)

I've got the same helmet. I get stopped at lights or at the gas station by cagers telling me they like the blinky lights on the back! I hear, "where did you get that?" a lot.

I wear all black though. Matches the MNS motif.

[Smash]

I do like the helmet, although you can put flashing LEDs on the back of any helmet, we'll be doing it to Karla's soon.

I don't tend to get into conversations about ATGATT, will just post what I wear. People say I'm "too hardcore" about being safe, and being seen.

Karla and I:



My ST:

(note the hyperlights, I love those)






More reflective stuff on the side of the fairing and the saddlebag, which you can see in the first pic.


To me, riding is a way of life, and I hope to continue it well into old age!

[DGXSER]

I always wear/wore jeans (articles have been posted about how well they hold up in a slide on blacktop) Boots that cover the ankles, gloves that cover the hands and a full face helmet.

As to the helmet, when I had my accident, I had a scratch about 1/8" deep right down the face shield a the same location as my right eye. The helmet was also scratched and scraped and full of mud on the right side. No doubt in my mind that without that helmet on my head my brains would be with the missing piece of my tibia. Without the full face, I'd be blind in my right eye and or missing half my face and teeth.

I had a heavy winter coat on, plenty of padding really. Did nothing to protect my ribs and collar bone though.

With that experience to go from, should I ride again, I will no doubt continue to wear all the items I had and possibly think about the Kevlar jacket.

[motoman]

Going down at 50+ on my ST two years ago wearing no gear or helmet locally here on the business loop avoiding a T-bone cured me.....ATGATT! Very fortunate to be here after 40+yrs. of riding! Again, welcome Smash, know you from the ST site and believe I rode with you last year over the GrandMesa.....not positive, but pretty sure. All be watchful out there and ride DEFENSIVELY!

[Smash]

Don't think that was me out in Grand Mesa, I haven't ridden much out there. Nice ST! Glad you're alright from your wreck. Gear really isn't that expensive or uncomfortable given the alternatives.

[Ken Talbot]

Lots of discussion on this topic here and here and here and here.

[Elevener]

Lots of discussion on this topic here and here and here and here.

Maybe we should just lock the forum and only use search??

Everything has been covered before but some of us are new and the topic was rocking on till a.....wait moderater stepped in.

[Ken Talbot]

By all means, this thread should continue to rock on. I hadn't meant to squelch the discussion, only meant to save some of us from having to remember what they wrote last time and type it all over again. There's already a bunch of stuff in this new thread that even I haven't seen before.

Rock on folks!

[fredintoon]

Hi Guys,
remember that I'm a special case, a timid old man riding a sidecar outfit and sidecar rigs are far safer than solo bikes because they can't fall over. Younger bolder solo riders should wear more kit than I do.
Modular helmet because it will go on over my glasses and I got a total deal on it.
Leather gloves, light or heavy depending on the weather.
Jean jacket or Belstaff jacket or Heine Gerick Safari jacket, again, depending on the weather.
Jeans and Gorilla boots.
I carry a rainsuit for when I get caught in the wet.
I will admit to riding one time with no gloves, a half-helmet, a tee shirt, jeans & sneakers but that was in the middle of July on a back road at 105ºF.