Am I a pussy if I wear anything more than a helmet and gloves?

I pointed it at my head. No vital organs were damaged.

Different boots are supportive for different reasons

If you're not investing in your own personal protection then you get what you get

Only people that are afraid of bullets can be hurt by them. I showed the bullets no fear and suffered no injury.

>support boots
Next thing you are going to buy is a dildo for your vagina, am I right? I am always right!

Your just getting boots with motorcycle boots. And a placebo effect.

Hmm lets see...

Wear the proper gear

or

Having all your burnt off skin replaced with baby foreskin skin grafts

hmm wonder which looks cooler?

You can't get road rash if you aren't afraid of it. Come on, even sea creatures know this.

ATGATT4LYFE

Why would having your skin burned off even be a choice? Are you jewish?

He was basically saying in a nice way that you're a retard. Things cost more when the are specialised, but feel free to spend 60% of the price of proper gear on stuff that won't fit the bill.

>if you're gunna spend the money, get the right shit, jew.

what were you wearing?

The only people that put on boots to ride a motorcycle are dorks. It is not like you are climbing anything, or walking through water, what the fuck could you possibly need boots for?

T. someone who has never ridden a motorcycle

A pink teddy and fuzzy slippers.

Non-biker here: What is a squid and where did that name come from?

Not everybody wants to cosplay as a MotoGP racer.

A pair like this.

Lesson learned

It's a term lifted from Japanese adult videos.

I've had 2 friends on bikes fuck their ankles. One cheaper out and bough boots they thought would be good enough (dislocated his ankle in a massive crash and got away almost scot-free), the other wanted to buy a pair of good boots but didn't have the money, and fucked himself up in a minor crash.

it depends OP
are you a cruiser loser?
if so do everyone a favour and ride with no gear

I have ridden plenty. The trick is that you can not fear things going wrong, or they will go wrong. If you are afraid of getting injured, or too weak to stand up to the injury, it will happen.

It is all about confidence. If you are confident in your riding you will never go down. If you are confident in your body it will never fail.

Okay OP here's your serious answer.

Helmet, jacket, globes, trousers. Do not fucking skip on this, it's not about your skill as a rider as much as EVERYONE ELSE ON THE ROAD.

Boots, recommend good boots at all times, biking boots can be on or off, but if you work as in a trade or a warehouse you should have good, sturdy, drop proof (steel caps or just hardened) boots already.
Don't wear sneakers or thongs. That's asking for it.

The one time you drop the ball, is the one time you'll be hit by the car running a red light at 120km/hr

Your friends were pussies and deserved what they got. They were afraid of hurting themselves, and look they got hurt.

Now on the other hand if they had looked at the accidents and thought 'sure, try to hurt me, I know there is nothing you can do" nothing would have happened and they wouldn't be gimps.

You're an idiot.

Things happen that are out of your control.

Yes

Squid it up user.

When it's 85 degrees out, I don't wear a jacket. Why? Because that would be stupid. We, all of us, ride on the street, not the track.

I don't believe you but I like it.

>I am doing something that scares me and I should give it up but I keep doing it to try and prove to other people that I am a big mean man

You should be so confident in your riding ability and your ability to dominate others that you are perfectly at ease riding naked.

Of course things will happen that are out of your control. If you are confident you can rise to the occasion and overcome. Why is this so difficult for you to understand?

If you get hit by a car, which one of only maybe 2 things you aren't in control of, a jacket, boots, leather pants aren't going to save you from injury. They don't make car proof pants.

It's true. Go to javlibrary. Every 8th -10th title is about "squiding".

MotoGP racers are paid professionals that have to stay alive and healthy to go to work

Shit still hurts with gear regardless. Broken bones (incl. neck and spine) are still a possibility if you're not wearing the world's most rigid plate armor. Yes, you get to keep your skin and maybe have a skull that still has a brain in it. It's a little nicer than having absolutely no skin on your broken back, though.

Cool fantasy world

It would be a shame if a speeding civic sideswiped you and you died instead of using the nearest crossover as a ramp to do a 360 to safety

wear your gear. one of my employees has to wear special shoes where the left one has a 2 inch thicker sole than the right because his legs are uneven from an accident. he thinks if he was wearing boots at the time instead of nikes, he'd be alright. he can't walk more than a hundred yards without his legs killing him. does he look like a massive pussy because of this? hell yeah he does.

and its not about you fucking up, its about the soccer mom in her 4 ton SUV fucking around with her cell phone that'll sideswipe you on the freeway. wear your gear.

Poor american who votes republican detected.

You two have to be just baiting at this point.

>I am a master rider nothing will ever hurt me
>shot happens anyway so fuck safety gear #YOLO

lel

They don't make boots that will keep your bones from breaking. Imagine if they did though, and you fell into water above your head. Fuck that noise!

No, but they make boots that significantly reduce the chance of them being broken

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Fuck you, I am Russian.

A speeding civic is like any land animal. If you are afraid of it, it will attack you. If you show confidence it will respect you

A motorcycle is inherently dangerous. I remember seeing a guy in shorts, a muscle shirt, and sandals on a crotch rocket, and thinking he's just waiting for all the pain in the world.

Have fun being scraped off the pavement faggot

Maybe he was just confident enough to not have to wear his gear

riding gear reduces your injuries, it doesn't prevent it. if you're full moto gp'd out and go down on the freeway at 80, it's still going to hurt and you will get fucked up. but having gear on means you have a better chance of recovering sooner rather than later. or never.

I'm going to save this post in my bait.txt

This guy gets it.

>tfw crashed a bike in full gear
>tfw squid all the time now

why

You can be as confident as you want, but it won't change someone changing lanes erratically, and blindsiding you.

#yoloswag that's why

I 100% was making fun of the other guy

Why not I guess, plus I learned to save riding like that for the track.

>plus I learned to save riding like that for the track.
Cause wrecks only happen on race tracks right

lmao try riding a bike ever

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Did you just fucking link a gif on Veeky Forums

it was easily avoidable if I wasn't riding how I was riding.

Most accidents are avoidable. Will I get into an accident when I'm not wearing gear? Maybe, hasn't happened yet, I'm not too concerned.

Quit being a western gay boy.

In Russia there is all kinds of dangerous shit. It is always the people that are afraid of it that get hurt by it. Farm machinery, radiation, meteors, industrial chemicals, Chechens, etc. If you show these things no fear, they do not hurt you.

Look at your western racing hero Ayrton Senna, he talked about the dangers of driving, that it could kill him and look, dead. Pastor Maldonado? That guy wasn't afraid of anything and he probably had more crashes than Senna, not a scratch on him.

:^)

Violated 4mb capacity

try not being butthurt about getting raped by reagans big ronald lmao

Honestly I am just trying to help you overcome your profound weakness, unfortunately you appear to be too much a crybaby to do something about it yourself.

Hopefully you will have a moment of courage and join the military. There they will teach you, and if you don't want to, they will make you.

If only she had been wearing boots!

I'm a gril :^)

its true. Nearly all the motorcyclists I know have been hit by a car atleast once in their life. Not their fault but theres too many shit drivers looking at their phone to be completely safe.

nah bro they just weren't instilling the fear of god into cars. if they had just been staring them down they wouldn't have crashed because magic and false equivalency

trust me on this, I'm a big russian gay boy

>Nearly all the motorcyclists I know have been hit by a car atleast once in their life
It's THEM then. I have been riding for over 3 decades and never been hit by a car. I know over a dozen other friends with bikes that haven't either.

get off my board dad!!!

That's gramps you dumb fuck

Full gear, this isn't even a question outside of the US.

>Been riding for a year
>Still dont have riding pants
I'm fucked

is this a fresh copypasta i see

user my uncle just died because he wasn't wearing any sort of bike gear. Huge biker, been riding for literally 30+ years. Got hit on the road and knocked off his bike, skull fractured, the whole shebang. He was dead five days later. ALWAYS WEAR ALL YOUR GEAR.

This so much. I'm sick of ever retards I meet telling me
>hurr my ____ got killed/hit/lost x appendage so you will too
Half the dumb fucks on motorcycles I know have never even gotten training and don't wear gear. I've been riding for 10 years and I've never even so much as dropped my bike. The closest thing to an accident I ever had was forgetting to put down my kickstand once when I first started riding and almost dropping my bike. If you get hurt on a motorcycle you deserve it for being a dumb fuck who's too lazy to even study up on the most basic of physics behind your bike. Every retarded cager who buys a bike and assumes they can drive it fine because they rode some shitty dirtbike when they were 13 and because they have a regular license deserves to die. Every time I tell another biker that I got training for my bike and that I've never even owned a car acts like I'm speaking a foreign language.

>Friend lowslides at 20kph
>Wearing gloves, helmet and non-motorcycle leather jacket
>Breaks arm, dislocates ankle, bruising and road rash
>I crash at 70kph because of kangaroo in twisties
>Full gear
>Rolled off road, down a hill and hit a tree
>Sprained ankles, minor bruising where I hit tree

I normally don't wear leather pants unless I'm riding hard though.

everyone i know that didn't wear gear started after their first crash.

not even because of mortal danger, but the fact that it hurts a lot worse than you think. during and after the crash. it hurts really fucking bad. its all fun and games until you eat shit and have muscular contusions.

> I've been riding for 10 years and I've never even so much as dropped my bike

then you're not riding very hard. doing wheelies on the highway and waterbugging at high speeds is not riding hard BTW. gonna need a picture of your knee on the ground in a corner if you want me to believe that.

i could see riding without dropping or falling off, but not if you're getting anywhere NEAR the limit of cornering.

How riding pants could have saved him?

He wouldn't have gotten massive gaping wounds down his legs and wouldn't get a ton of infections.

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Do what you want. You're a pussy if you let other people tell you what gear to wear.

Lets say you're wearing jeans instead of real riding pants.
You crash or whatever, slide on the tarmac, the jeans will melt and shit, not good.
Bike pants are made for that shit.

That's false,
I'm completely confident in my abilities. Its not hard to ride
What I don't have confidence in is crazy situations like people clipping my rear tire or hidden potholes bucking me off.
And on those I'm glad I was wearing gear while sliding.
If I didnt I probably would of been maimed awfully.
But, I mean its up to you. Besides most gear isn't that bad to wear and you can easily avoid looking dumb with it.

Just so I don't feel like a pussy while driving my 99 Camry, I line the interior with the lowest grit sandpaper I can find and epoxy fist-sized rocks where the air bags deploy and never wear a seat belt so I can get the rush that bikers who don't wear protective clothing get

If anyone in this thread says anything other than 'wear ALL of your fucking riding gear', they deserve to die in a motorcycle accident.

>telling people the have the freedom to make their own decisions on what they want to wear
>but I deserve to die
Okay, commie bastard

It doesn't matter how skilled you are when a blonde in a huge SUV changes lanes without looking while texting and changing the radio station

kek

I have that jacket in pic OP, saved my back on track crash.

Stop replying; you won't change his mind, and anyway, the world can always use another organ donor.

I mean let's be real. If you go to work by bike would you really sit in your workplace in fucking protection pants and motoboots? Helmet and jacket - those you can just take off.