Saw yer self page. Cool truck. Cool bike.
I was in a trendy nightclub last night where mostly 20 somethings hang out. I mean the ultra privileged, white, big city suburb type. While trying my best to have a conversation with anyone willing to talk to me and listening to so many braggards talking about where they went to college(I went to grad school for structural engineering but at a no-name school and am not impressed with frat house boys with BA degrees from party schools and am way too old to reminisce about college days anyway), I had an epiphany.
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that grew up in child safety carseats, wear/wore bicycle helmets, knee pads, and have a special outfit for every kind of outdoor activity they engage in...and the rest of us that don't and never did.
"There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that grew up in child safety carseats, wear/wore bicycle helmets, knee pads, and have a special outfit for every kind of outdoor activity they engage in...and the rest of us that don't and never did."I'm 76 years old and have been riding motorcycles since 1948, I've never worn any protective devices outside of helmet's (started in the late 60's,) Levi's, leather jacket and gloves, for street riding.
Two piece Belstaff (oil treated canvas with no padding) suit, Georgia Giant lace up boots, Troston Halman MX gloves (little rubber strips on the back of each finger) and open face helmet with goggles, for dirt riding.
I stopped riding in the dirt in the middle 80's.
Whenever I ride my 18 speed mountain bike, I never wear and have never worn a bicycle helmet, I wear a NRA cap, backwards. >:-}