Originally Posted by cycle7447

Interesting thread - we all do things a little differently.

For me/us, we always wear long pants. If riding around town or to the local dealership in warm weather, we wear tee shirts. On longer trips/highway, we usually wear a long sleeve shirt or mesh jacket. For us, the bare skin in the wind sort of burns us. We just got back from a 1400 mile trip - and it was long pants, jackets and boots all the way.

I will say that we may wear sketchers on a short ride - 10 miles or so; we have a trike with running boards.

As a note - while in Sturgis, we say a guy on his bike - it was hot as heck that day. The lady with him has on a bikini - and she jumped on the back and sat on the FENDER - talk about burning her rear.

Originally Posted by OldManBkr

I could care less if you ride in the nude or wearing a protective bubble. What i care about is that my insurance premiums are based on the masses, you being one of the statistics they take into account to determine my premiums. The fact that you want to ride full monte so when you ditch, you are crayoned all over the road, thus the insurance company has to pay 10's of thousands in skin grafts, and prosthetic limb charges, which means we all as a community pay for your choose to go naked on a motorcycle ride.

Other countries are not like the US. In the US we ride because it is a luxury (in most cases) the majority of the world ride because it is affordable. I have been to part so the world where i have seen several people on a 125 cc motorcycle and on the rider is wearing a helmet. But the risks are not the same. Because everyone rides, drivers are more respectful of the motorcycles, no one cares about lane splitting / filtering because it is allowed. heck i once saw a guy in a car hit a motorcyclist by accident. The car driver was pulled out of his car by a mob and beaten within inches of his life.

to summarize my main point, wear what you want, but i care only because it ultimately costs me money.

Originally Posted by TwiZted Biker

Before they gentrified things and cracked down hard any non PC dress and behavior downtown, there were times the main drag smelled like a fish fry.

Originally Posted by MikeTD3

Then I suggest you go down to your local fast food joint to yell at all the fatties pigging out on junk food and contributing to the heart disease crisis we have in this out of shape nation. Surely that has a bigger impact in healthcare costs to your wallet than MC insurance (such a weak argument). Face it, you just want to tell others what they should do....period.