Few people REALLY enjoy wearing FULL LEATHERS when riding. At first. It's really just like learning to walk from crawling.
First you are able to move around on all fours. Seems to work fine. [This is like not wearing leathers.] You get the job done, real basic does what it needs to do - you get there but slowly and not too many options available to you - you can't reach stuff up high, and speed is restricted to how hard you bang your knees on the ground. [Without leathers, the wind beats you up and bugs plaster you and it hurts so you don't go too fast and it gets the job done.]
The you start to walk. YUCK! Why is THIS so hard? ? Do we REALLY NEED to walk? Crawling was just fine, it got the job done... but oh hey... walking looks pretty cool, and it seems to impress bigger people. AND I can reach the cookies.... almost. You hike up on your legs and waddle around and fall down and slowly get used to it [in leathers, at first they are annoyingly restrictive and expensive, but then you see how cool they look, and they add some comfort in knowing you are protected, so you start to wear them a little more and kinda get used to it.]
NOW you are walking with the best of them. You control your speed, regulate your balance and can strut, stride, run, jog, dance, all these cool things you could never do while you were JUST crawling. Other people are walking too, and all cool people walk... people in the know... people who have "arrived". [after a while in leathers, you are so used to them that you never look back or want to go back to crawling without them, that would feel so backwards, so unsafe, actually uncomfortable. Now you can go fast, do trackdays, look like Rossi, and feel protected incase of an accident.]
Who would ever decide to go back to crawling? You can still do it, but it seems and feels so silly, so yesterday, so immature. Why bother?
Who would ever decide to go back to riding leatherless? You can still do it, but it seems and feels so silly, so yesterday, so immature. Why bother?
Stop crawling - learn to walk.
Leather. It does a body good.
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First you are able to move around on all fours. Seems to work fine. [This is like not wearing leathers.] You get the job done, real basic does what it needs to do - you get there but slowly and not too many options available to you - you can't reach stuff up high, and speed is restricted to how hard you bang your knees on the ground. [Without leathers, the wind beats you up and bugs plaster you and it hurts so you don't go too fast and it gets the job done.]
The you start to walk. YUCK! Why is THIS so hard? ? Do we REALLY NEED to walk? Crawling was just fine, it got the job done... but oh hey... walking looks pretty cool, and it seems to impress bigger people. AND I can reach the cookies.... almost. You hike up on your legs and waddle around and fall down and slowly get used to it [in leathers, at first they are annoyingly restrictive and expensive, but then you see how cool they look, and they add some comfort in knowing you are protected, so you start to wear them a little more and kinda get used to it.]
NOW you are walking with the best of them. You control your speed, regulate your balance and can strut, stride, run, jog, dance, all these cool things you could never do while you were JUST crawling. Other people are walking too, and all cool people walk... people in the know... people who have "arrived". [after a while in leathers, you are so used to them that you never look back or want to go back to crawling without them, that would feel so backwards, so unsafe, actually uncomfortable. Now you can go fast, do trackdays, look like Rossi, and feel protected incase of an accident.]
Who would ever decide to go back to crawling? You can still do it, but it seems and feels so silly, so yesterday, so immature. Why bother?
Who would ever decide to go back to riding leatherless? You can still do it, but it seems and feels so silly, so yesterday, so immature. Why bother?
Stop crawling - learn to walk.
Leather. It does a body good.
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