Toyandgadgetguy
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Would you wear shorts playing paintball? (and that's only a little welt.) Imagine sliding into home plate on blacktop with shorts on.
Not worth the risk, in my opinion.
Not worth the risk, in my opinion.
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is it ok to wear shorts driving a can am spyder?
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Peteoz
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Can you expand on that a bit, Gwolf? I assume they were not armoured motorcycle pants?
Pete
Gwolf
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No, not armor pants. Happened way back in 81. Never heard of armor pants back then. I rode bike to work when I was on day shift. Winter time and it was cold. I was wearing long johns and heavy jeans with combat boots. Car hit me from the left side. Slid a long way and broke both legs too. The road rash was not the worse thing I got out of it. Armor pants or even leather would not have helped with the broken bones. Just FYI, I was wearing a Bell Full Face helmet and not much head injury. The chin bar broke a couple teeth off and real sore, but no other head injuries.
SpyderAnn01
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You can do what you want but I feel really sorry for the EMT who has to treat you. And the tow truck driver who has to wash your skin off the roadway.
I don’t plan on getting in an accident when I get behind the wheel of my car but I wear my seatbelt just in case, same goes when I get on the Spyder.
I don’t plan on getting in an accident when I get behind the wheel of my car but I wear my seatbelt just in case, same goes when I get on the Spyder.
007james
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There are only 2 kinds of Motorcycle Riders. Those who have been down, and those who have not been down YET. I also have been down, several times, but never broke any bones.
I went down on my 1982 Yamaha XS-1100 on an off road Trail when I hit a pot hole and got scuffed up pretty bad. I went down with my wife on my BSA 650, but we never got hurt. We both went down on a rented Scooter in The Bahamas when it reared up and dumped us on the hot asphalt. I was wearing Jeans, but my wife was wearing shorts and she got burnt with the exhaust pipes on her leg, plus some road rash.
I never ride my Harley or Spyder with out having all my skin covered, and with Boots on, no matter how hot it gets. I cringe every time I see some Dude riding his Harley Road King wearing shorts, Tee shirt, and Tennis shoes!
007james
I went down on my 1982 Yamaha XS-1100 on an off road Trail when I hit a pot hole and got scuffed up pretty bad. I went down with my wife on my BSA 650, but we never got hurt. We both went down on a rented Scooter in The Bahamas when it reared up and dumped us on the hot asphalt. I was wearing Jeans, but my wife was wearing shorts and she got burnt with the exhaust pipes on her leg, plus some road rash.
I never ride my Harley or Spyder with out having all my skin covered, and with Boots on, no matter how hot it gets. I cringe every time I see some Dude riding his Harley Road King wearing shorts, Tee shirt, and Tennis shoes!
007james
Cobwebs
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Might as well pour hi octane on your cornflakes and finish off with a cigarette if your going to push your luck.:firstplace:
That's 2-wheelers. He's asking about a Spyder. You're not going to 'go down' on a Spyder.
Gwolf
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Get hit by a car or some other accident and come off of a Spyder the road is just as rough as it is when you drop a two wheeler. It won't slide out from under you, but there is not much holding you on it either. If you slide down the road very far, you will lose skin.
I think losing skin will be the least of your worries if you are in a collision which ejects you from the Spyder. There are many, many posts on this forum that attest to the fact that the Spyder will protect the rider very well as long as the rider doesn't get ejected. In which case, as I say, skin abrasion is the least of your worries.
Of course, if the accident has you riding the Spyder into a Florida swamp, there may be other things to worry about (e.g. alligators and pythons), but in either case wearing shorts or full protective gear probably isn't going to make much of a difference! :roflblack:
Gwolf
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That is true, but you can somewhat protect yourself from road rash. You cannot protect yourself from broken bones and worse. I know about them. I have been hit by other vehicles twice and got serious injuries both times.
Gwolf
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007james
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Utah Pete, Doc Humphrey would differ from you. Revisit 3 months of his daily reports after his Wife’s accident while riding with out protective clothing or helmet on her 3 WHEEL SPYDER, and how she FLEW off her Spyder when she hit a deer, and ended up with severe ROAD RASH among other Traumas. If I recall, with out looking back, and digging up unpleasant posts & memories, while we were all praying with Doc., you were too busy complaining about Fellow Spyder Compadres praying with Doc for his Wife’s recovery to notice she WENT DOWN, and OFF a Spyder!
007james
BLUEKNIGHT911
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Actually, have you seen pics of "Bedouins" riding camels in the Sahara desert?? They look like they are dressed for the "Arctic", but the temps are usually way over 100° F They have been doing this for thousands of years, so my guess is that they understand how to protect themselves from "HEAT"... jmho …. Mike
hyea:Actually, have you seen pics of "Bedouins" riding camels in the Sahara desert?? They look like they are dressed for the "Arctic", but the temps are usually way over 100° F They have been doing this for thousands of years, so my guess is that they understand how to protect themselves from "HEAT"... jmho …. Mike
They are acclimated, and don't know what air conditioning is. I sleep with one blanket in the winter with window open. The ink in the printer has frozen. Buff with AC blasting in the summer. Tried riding in the summer while working at White Sands MR - 110° in the shade, 160° rising off the pavement & engine heat. Parked my ride for most of the summer, before mesh gear.
I ride in the summer with tank, shorts, tennies in town - 35mph and under. Mesh riding gear and boots for hwy & fwy rides.
Regards,
Don
cruisinTX
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OK, I've read every response here and agree with most everything except:
Road rash being the least of your worries in a get off. Keep in mind that your skin is the largest organ of the body and when it is damaged, bodily resources can be taxed severely when trying to repair too many things at once. Open skin also sets one up for infections, which further hinder healing of other injuries. The easiest solution to this is to wear protective gear.
Someone mentioned long johns and jeans not being much protection in a slide on the road. Interesting fact - at 70mph, denim jeans will wear through to your skin in 0.3 seconds. After that, it's your skin on the pavement. At 70mph, you are going 102.6 feet per second - I'll let you do the rest of that math.
Also mentioned were nomads of desert climates keeping themselves covered in 100+° heat. They don't do that out of being acclimated to it; they do it because keeping the skin protected from the sun is paramount to survival, as their covering helps retain water loss to sweating. You may feel cooler when sweating with bare skin, but the damage being done is more or less a slow boil, which will eventually lead to heat stress, heat exhaustion, and eventually heat stroke.
Lastly, ask yourself if you would rather sweat than bleed?
Road rash being the least of your worries in a get off. Keep in mind that your skin is the largest organ of the body and when it is damaged, bodily resources can be taxed severely when trying to repair too many things at once. Open skin also sets one up for infections, which further hinder healing of other injuries. The easiest solution to this is to wear protective gear.
Someone mentioned long johns and jeans not being much protection in a slide on the road. Interesting fact - at 70mph, denim jeans will wear through to your skin in 0.3 seconds. After that, it's your skin on the pavement. At 70mph, you are going 102.6 feet per second - I'll let you do the rest of that math.
Also mentioned were nomads of desert climates keeping themselves covered in 100+° heat. They don't do that out of being acclimated to it; they do it because keeping the skin protected from the sun is paramount to survival, as their covering helps retain water loss to sweating. You may feel cooler when sweating with bare skin, but the damage being done is more or less a slow boil, which will eventually lead to heat stress, heat exhaustion, and eventually heat stroke.
Lastly, ask yourself if you would rather sweat than bleed?
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