# Wear your gear! Sumo vs deer

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [April 7, 2012, 10:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wear-your-gear-sumo-vs-deer/263315 "2012-04-07T10:51:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wear-your-gear-sumo-vs-deer/263315/54 "2012-04-12T10:12:55Z")

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> [@FiosTV in Town of Tonawanda...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fiostv-in-town-of-tonawanda/49108/16):
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> Not going to hijack OP’s thread with a vid I just saw on the tube, rider was wearing helmet, riding jacket, but with normal pants and sneakers mostly due to he didn’t plan on crashing that day; but he did. Ankle mangled and pants ripped on contact.
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> It puzzles me even more than people who rides with absolutely no gear, as if they are telling themselves that they kind of care about the body but legs? meh, not so much.

I think it’s do to image and ignorance. I’ve been made fun of a few times buy local riders who only wear a helmet because I look like “buz light year” or “the blue ranger” to them. Movies perpetuates the image that bad asses ride motorcycles and don’t need gear. So the general populous see’s a full leather suit as stupid or over kill.

Examples:  
[ame][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzIQg6Ly\_Rw[/ame]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzIQg6Ly_Rw%5B/ame%5D)  
[ame][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF9AC2Ce2ow[/ame]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF9AC2Ce2ow%5B/ame%5D)  
[ame][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0VFSyQKu6k&feature=related[/ame]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0VFSyQKu6k&feature=related%5B/ame%5D)  
[ame][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfeHjGw7fk&feature=related[/ame]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfeHjGw7fk&feature=related%5B/ame%5D)  
[ame][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOQh\_NwrBTc[/ame]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOQh_NwrBTc%5B/ame%5D)

Now for the factor of Ignorance much like death most people tend to think a motorcycle crash wont happen to them till it is upon them. The whole I’m invincible mind set that is well rooted in most riders/ peoples Ego’s is hard to knock out of an ignorant persons head.

But as Oscar Wilde said “Common sense isn’t very common.” :Idiots

> [@touch screen blackberry what?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/touch-screen-blackberry-what/48606/72):
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> “Jeans = protection” that is the advice people toss around. “Squids wear shorts and flip-flops but real riders wear sneakers and jeans”…
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> But in a crash on pavement above 20 mph jeans offer basically the same protection as shorts. And sneakers offer the same amount of protection as flip flops. In almost every accident I have seen the first thing that comes off are the sneakers.

Exactly. When anyone go’s down with out the proper gear I don’t feel bad for them really. It’s like sex without a condom, you knock up a girl you don’t like because you don’t want to protect yourself now you have to live with the life changing out come.

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