Shorts and Harleys--Wrong At Many Levels
Tourer
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Mississauga, Ontario
I know riding a motorcycle in shorts is stupid, but yesterday, due to various reasons, I took off on the EGC in shorts, (95+ degrees). Wow what a mistake. Even with the heat shields, my legs roasted, especially in traffic and when stopped. Could not believe the heat that engine pumps out!
1HarleyGuy1
Road Captain
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: JAX Florida
I see guys all the time here (Florida) wearing nothing but a pair of shorts and flip-flops going down the road. I am short, so not an option for me. But even if I were tall, I don't think I would ever ride with shorts and flip-flops. I feel naked if I don't have pants, boots, and a helmet on. Some guys are either fearless, clueless, stupid, or all of the above. To each his own I guess!
it aint rocket science afer all.
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Joined: Mar 2011
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Found out very quickly this is my 1st touring bike with the crotch rocket rode in shorts all the time. I installed a quick up center stand and tried to get the bike straight and my leg hit the clutch cover 
great big burn hurts like hell 
will not be riding in shorts any more.
great big burn hurts like hell will not be riding in shorts any more.
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Joined: Apr 2011
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From: sun valley ca.usa
I've had this conversation many times .. with people who have never been down on a bike ...I have several times ..spent time in hospitals etc.etc. why I've down doesn't matter.......While I was lieing on a hospital table with the surgeon picking pieces of stone and road crap out of my side and leg ...HE ..told me that the worst thing you could wear on a motorcycle was ..jeans .. he said that the cotton in jeans starts to rot immediately on contact with blood ..and as that would cause sepsis (gangreene spelling? ) to the tissue ...it ALL had to be removed which meant hours of using tweezers and a magnifiying glass to pick out the strands from the hamburger of a leg ..OR even worse he said was listening to the screams as the nurses washed the area with stiff brushes to get ALL the little bits out ,,,whereas road dirt and stones can be left in with just an anticeptic washing ...I have several bits of gravel in my legs some of which worked thier way out years later .....So in his words he would rather see people ride naked or in full leathers ...not nylon either as it melts into the skin as you slide here in SoCal I wear shorts all year to work construcion and I ride all my bikes in shorts ...the beemer ..the triumph.. the harley ultra ..with my work boots ....
I'm totally with firedog341 I don't care what you ride in and if you don't like what I wear then you are more interested in being a poser than a rider ...and we got alot of them in SoCal
I'm totally with firedog341 I don't care what you ride in and if you don't like what I wear then you are more interested in being a poser than a rider ...and we got alot of them in SoCal
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Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Milton, Delaware
A couple of years ago we went to Aruba. I rented a RK for a day and my wife and I wandered around on it. The only time I have ever worn shorts on a bike, and I won't be doing it again.
I ended up with 4" round burn on my leg and the tops of my legs badly sunburned. Other than that, the thought of my bare skin sliding on asphalt just gives me the *******.
I ended up with 4" round burn on my leg and the tops of my legs badly sunburned. Other than that, the thought of my bare skin sliding on asphalt just gives me the *******.