February 9, 2009 at 6:32 am
#16377
SantaCruzRider
Participant
I started out riding in Hawaii, were helmets were optional. Mostly rode in jeans, t-shirt and doo-rag. But a couple years in, I realized that the odds were stacking up against me. Since then, I ride only with armored leather jacket, helmet, leather gloves and boots, and armored overpants. So far, I’ve yet to use any of it on a crash, so I guess I’ve wasted several hundred dollars. But I’d rather lose $500 than a pound of skin, use of a limb, brain cells, etc…