Re: JACKETS AND ARMOUR

Jim Stewart <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:37:31 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.recreation.motorcycles.svrider.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Beth wrote:
> On 3/8/06, Vince Lok <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> So, aside from crashes and weather protection, good
>> full body gear protects you from "random crap flying off
>> a pickup, or kicked up by spinning tires" as well!
>
> Especially if you ride behind somebody who has cut off all of his rear fender!
>

Heh.  Last weekend I would sometimes look in my mirror and there was Beth, a
tiny speck in the distance.  "Hmmm - is she having trouble?"  I wondered.

Sort of.  She was hanging back to keep from being peppered with the rain and
grit flung off my rear wheel - with no clunky fender I put out a pretty good
spray to the rear when the weather is nasty.

-js

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Jim Stewart
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