
20 Feb 2009
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Originally Posted by Matt Cartney
I think this argument mainly boils down to cost. There's a significant proportion of people in the world (and on the HUBB!) who trot out the line "If it saves your life then it's worth it..." Blah, blah, blah. They bang on about never riding with anything less than a three hundred quid lid and the finest body armour money can buy and insinuating that anyone who doesn't is an idiot.
Sure, buy the kit you can afford, but I'm afraid some of us just don't have that much cash lying around. My relatively cheapo £120 Hein Gericke Tuareg was a stretch for me to buy (and its protected me fine in a coupl of offs), I bought my helmet in a sale and my back armour is stuff I bought years ago for snowboarding.
At the end of the day, you can't predict all eventualities and simply going out and spending lots of money won't keep you safe. As well as riding motorbikes I climb mountains, canoe and ski off-piste. If I'd bought all the kit I'd been told was 'essential' and would 'save my life' over the years I'd have an absolute crap load of nice kit but would never have had any money to go places and use it.
Matt 
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I couldn't agree more Matt  . I don't ride a motorbike to be safe.
If I wanted to be safe I'd stay at home.
I don't have any objection to mitigating some of that risk by wearing a helmet, boots gloves and a jacket but you have to draw the line somewhere. The last near miss I had a car did a U-turn in the road in front of me. My front wheel made contact with his drivers door but I managed to stop the bike... just. The ABS kicked in. I wonder if I would have skidded to a straight line stop sooner without the ABS :confused1:. On that occasion the only injury I sustained were some slightly crushed crown jewels  . Do I forever wear a cod piece now for fear that I might bruise my manhood? I don't think so.
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