• JayleneSlide@lemmy.worldEnglish
    79·
    3 months ago
    • Dress for the slide, not for the ride
    • ATGATT
    • Gray-haired riders don’t get that way from luck

    What others did I miss?

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      39·
      3 months ago
      • If your helmet doesn’t have a chin bar (full or modular), you don’t care about your chin, teeth, or nose.
      • wrt ATGATT, most of that gear will reduce or avoid injury. A helmet will prevent your death.
      • If you don’t wear earplugs - even with a helmet on - enjoy your tinnitus and/or hearing loss. This is from wind noise, not engine noise.
      • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        42·
        3 months ago

        A friend of mine crashed her motorbike a few years ago and her face bounced off the road. Her chin bar flexed inwards so much that it broke her nose and chipped a front tooth.

        She was furious that the helmet didn’t protect her properly, until her husband who was riding behind her pointed out that she essentially landed face first at over 60mph, and that without the helmet, her face would have taken the full force of the landing.

        • Nougat@fedia.io
          35·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, that was probably a “anything less than a chin bar and you’d be super dead” incident.

    • clif@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      More motorcycle specific, but here’s a couple

      • What’s a five letter word for road rash?
      answer

      jeans

      • it doesn’t matter how good of a driver you are when there’s so many shitty ones out there.

      I’ve heard that one phrased a lot of ways.

      EDIT: took me five tries to get the spoiler right : D