What Not To Wear (while riding)


I'm visiting Phoenix AZ this weekend, and I saw a rider on a sport bike in a t-shirt, jeans, sunglasses, and no helmet on the freeway... I later saw a 149cc moped rider- also no helmets... Then saw a motorcycle cop, wearing a helmet but short-sleeved uniform... All went by before I could snap any photos...

Turns out there are no helmet laws in the state of Arizona... Weird huh?
 
Detrich said:
I'm visiting Phoenix AZ this weekend, and I saw a rider on a sport bike in a t-shirt, jeans, sunglasses, and no helmet on the freeway... I later saw a 149cc moped rider- also no helmets... Then saw a motorcycle cop, wearing a helmet but short-sleeved uniform... All went by before I could snap any photos...

Turns out there are no helmet laws in the state of Arizona... Weird huh?
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Arizona is still kind of a "Wild West" state, I think the legislators have decided that we are adults that can make our own decisions, not everything needs to have a law... (kind of, personal choice... personal consequences)

That being said, I always wear full gear, all the time; no matter how hot it gets. If I can quote John Kerr "All the Gear, All the time"
 
Guess so... I saw a lotta bikes, and nearly all of them were way, completely under-dressed for riding... I only saw 1 guy in full gear riding a BMW sport touring bike...
 
Not as many bikes on the road this weekend. Made for a great day of riding yesterday with no traffic at all. I missed the photographers on Palomar yesterday. They showed up after I left. But not one really bad one. HOWEVER, here's a few pictures from Saturday. Lots of calamari out on Saturday on Pally.

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Not too bad on the gear side, but one handing any turn on this road, let alone that turn is not what I would call bright.

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WTF???? :confused: :eek:

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Can't even be bothered to put on a pair of gloves???

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Roaddawg said:
Guess that orange guy didn't get the memo about helmet hawks.:thumbdown:

:squid:
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Yeah...but he did do a good job matching the color to the bike and also the mirrored/chrome screens on his helmet and bike. :rolleyes:
 
I hope these people signed their organ donor cards.
 
It is definitely squid season. All those pics from yesterday are just from Palomar. I was there and gone early in the morning and got to miss all of them. Chuck finally got his pics up though from 94. I could tell riding back home on 94 Sunday that it was quite interesting out there on a warm holiday weekend. ENJOY.

Yet more classy cruiser riders.

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MORON :banghead:

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This has got to be annoying

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Look at this SQUID! :squid: :rof: (Yes that's me ;) )

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This is more of a WTF?!?! :eyebrow:

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Now this one really pisses me off. If you're going to be a squid, don't do it to a kid too.

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I just went through Tail of the Dragon today to see it and every sportbike and touring rider i saw had full leathers and armor with helmet on, it surprised me how many crusiers had it all on, but there were still many that were just a leather vest and skull cap.
 
JonKerr said:
This has got to be annoying

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Honestly, we ride with a couple of cruisers.... as I said, I'm a sit back and relax rider usually... so I hang way back of the pack, when the cruisers are with us we slow way down before the twisties to make sure they have time to get out of our way (I've almost ran into them because they misjudge the turns and almost stop at the apex or just shortly after, right as I'm accelerating)...
If we come up on a dual-sport bike or cruiser and they are slower than the road pace, we'll pull over and take a water break. No need to push them like those three guys are!
 
Those guys are probably just waiting behind him since about 3 turns after this one is a big turn out that guys use to turn around and head back down the hill to the bottom turn out. Guys will run 4,5, even 10 laps up and down the "Playground" or "Smugglers Run" as it's called.

I ride with my family on their Harleys too and it can be very difficult. Not because I always need to ride fast, because I don't. But like you mentioned, there are times they don't accelerate when they should and it kind of makes it difficult. When I end up stuck behind a bike like this with a rider like that, I would hang way the hell back just because I'd be expecting him to hit the ground any time.
 
How hard is it for him to move over to the right side of the lane and wave the others on by?!? Just common courtesy.
 
Roaddawg said:
How hard is it for him to move over to the right side of the lane and wave the others on by?!? Just common courtesy.
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I'd say that from the pictures I've seen, it wouldn't be that easy... and, even if this guy were in front of you and waved you by, in a turn, would you risk it?

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Mind you, it's not him being an @ss for going his pace, it's the guy behind being an @ss for riding so far up on him.

(was that Steven Wright? something about the person in front of you is going too slow, and the person behind is tailgating)
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Never know, he may have waved them by on a straightaway (if there are any of those on that road), just keep in mind a picture is one point in time.
 
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dart1963 said:
I'd say that from the pictures I've seen, it wouldn't be that easy... and, even if this guy were in front of you and waved you by, in a turn, would you risk it?

Mind you, it's not him being an @ss for going his pace, it's the guy behind being an @ss for riding so far up on him. (was that Steven Wright? something about the person in front of you is going to slow, and the person behind is tailgating)


Never know, he may have waved them by on a straightaway (if there are any of those on that road), just keep in mind a picture is one point in time.
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Of course I wouldn't pass nor would I wave someone to pass me on a curve!! :disapprove: I'm not referring to the actual place in time the picture was taken for him to pull over there. Sure, he could have waved them by up the road, but he could have also been riding way too slow for the last 5 miles pissing everyone off...we don't know. We can both make all kinds of assumptions based on this one snapshot.

I don't have a problem with his pace, but if it was me, I'd move over and let those douche-bags riding my a$$ get by...then I could enjoy my ride. :cool: That's all I'm saying.
 
I think we're on the same wavelength... I'd pull over, have pulled over, and waved people by.... matter of fact, I did that on skyline drive for a 'vette that was tailgating my wife (who was behind me)... not even 1 mile up the road, he was being pulled over for speeding... karma...

It is hard to tell a lot from one pic... but it looked to me like those three guys bunched up on him, they could have just came around the last turn and he was right there too... never know.

You quoted me before I went back and added my [\sarcasm] tag.... after I typed that, figured I ought to go back and clarify so ppl would know.;)
 
Most likely they had just come up on him a turn or two before. He may not have even known they were there. But you never know, they could have been riding with the guy. Who knows. I just thought the picture was interesting and something I've dealt with on that road a number of times, in both positions. But mostly on the side of being stuck behind the slow traffic. Passing can be very tough on that road because of the lack of straightaways. There are a handful of turnouts but I can count on one hand how many times I've seen them actually used.

This is one of me from the same day stuck behind a truck. You have to just either back off to let them pull a gap (as long as you don't have traffic behind you) or pull into one of the turn outs and wait. Passing is only an option in a few spots and by then you've missed all the good parts of the road.

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You look so bored in that pic!
 

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