Motorcycle Deaths
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- Nathan_Adams0
It's this kind of stuff that makes me completely amazed at the people who wear next to no safety gear whilst riding. The number of scooter riders I see wearing shorts, t-shirt, flip-flops, no gloves, and a token open face helmet is unbelievable.
When I bought my Vespa, I was lucky enough to have a salesperson that was very keen to drill in to me the safety message, and outright insisted I buy a full face helmet (he even showed me his old one, which had the chin guard smashed to pieces from a crash). Lucky, because I eventually wrote it off when the scooter slipped out from under me when I hit a patch of oil going round a bend. Had I been wearing what those idiots wear, I'd still be feeling it, but instead I was leathered up and thankfully came out of it with nothing more than a bruised ego and an insurance cheque.