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Originally Posted by TriumphTengu
Well to each their own, but I've been seeing too much of the "shorts' and "deck shoe" riders. I got used to it with the sport bike motorheads, but then I started seeing Goldwing and Harley riders, and now I'm even seeing "dudes" on BMW's with shorts and flip flops.
Is nothing sacred. BMW hippies.
Or maybe "motorcycle slackers".
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It is all well and good for some to say "whatever" to this, but every time cagers and others see someone behaving badly on a bike, or under-dressed like this, it sets us all back about 30 years. Behaviour such as this just provides more ammo for the fun police and lawmakers to slap new restrictions on ALL riders.
Liberal types roll their eyes, swish their wrists and say "They have a right to wear whatever they like, and ride however they like." But the rest of us pay big time in higher insurance premiums for costs of scraping their carcases off the street, more $$ for more forced safety gizmos on our new bikes, and having to put up with the inevitable remarks at family and social gatherings.
"Isn't riding dangerous and foolhardy?"
"Aren't you scared of crashing?"
"Did you read about the biker who...", and so on.
Refuse to associate with, or ride with these poser types, maybe they'll get the picture.
