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  • #1

    why do people stare at you when you wear gloves & protective gear

    i have the lot of experience in that while standing in the signal ,people all around you stare when you wear riding gloves ,race jacket ,knee guards .
    and once they have seen you (cab drivers,auto drivers, teens ) all act like crazy and start ripping their bikes in front of you & overtake you rudely.
    i als understand if u have some pretty chick on a scooty & try to show off,
    but have i seen this so many times to us bikers who wear gloves ,guards.
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    Yeah, because we look like aliens or racers or plain idiots for them! They at times even touch me and feel me! Really hate that.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by anirudh fz1 View Post
      i have the lot of experience in that while standing in the signal ,people all around you stare when you wear riding gloves ,race jacket ,knee guards .
      and once they have seen you (cab drivers,auto drivers, teens ) all act like crazy and start ripping their bikes in front of you & overtake you rudely.
      i als understand if u have some pretty chick on a scooty & try to show off,
      but have i seen this so many times to us bikers who wear gloves ,guards.
      +1
      I completely agree with this. You get a billion stares from cabbies and even pedestrians. When college going teenage-posers on p150s see me a p220 with full riding gear, they go berserk and start giving rude stares and deliberately overtaking.

      One helmetless rider on a CT100 who had stopped next to me at a traffic signal even had the audacity to ask me how much the complete riding gear costed me (armoured jacket + gloves + knee guards) and when i said around 15k, he said "What a waste of money!!"
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      • #4
        this happens every time,people stare at ueven when u wear a costly helmet with tinted visor
        but we are hiding under the helmet ,are'nt we? "kya pharak padta hai?"
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        • #5
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          • #6
            ya shit like this happens but now i keep an attitude like...I dont give a rat's a** wat ppl think...the gear is to protect me...not for style...not for ur stares....
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            very very stupid question....

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            • #7
              the other day 2 guys without any helmet started giggling on me... F**K i was so pissed off at that time but then i realised that they are kids they dont know anything bout protection. and i am wearing all this to save my a**, so we shud not bother wat other are thinking .. and just enjoy our rides which are much more safer than theres.... :0

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              • #8
                Originally posted by ken cool View Post
                Yeah, because we look like aliens or racers or plain idiots for them! They at times even touch me and feel me! Really hate that.
                LOL !!
                They touch you

                The day i bought my helmet, office colleagues asked me the price. On hearing it they said "Itne mei toh ek puraana scooter aajaaega "
                Also, get those disapproving stares from people who think i am some kind of freak with lots of money to waste. Now thats true, i would love to waste some money on Joe Rockets

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                • #9
                  When ever i wear my MPA helmet with blue tinted visor the people on the road,auto drivers,even chicks on the scootys watches me strangely like iam alien. i got irritated & now using AGV with plain viosr.
                  & now iam using my MPA helmet only for long rides but not in the city
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                  • #10
                    They think we wear all that for racing, which is obviously not true.
                    The worst comment I received was (translated to English): Why is he showing off wearing all that when he is just riding an R15-by wearing all that it won't look like an R1!
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                    • #11
                      People do stare, but I would also confess to the fact that a few people do appreciate the fact that we, as motorcyclists take full care of our safety; especially a few car drivers have actually said this, which is really good to hear.
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                      • #12
                        Very True said Aryan. What I have seen is that people in cages and out of them, feel offended in God-knows-what ways when they see a rider in a good riding gear. Weird questions are bombarded at traffic intersections, railways crossings but lets not forget that these questions and queries are nothing in comparison to the wounds and damages we might suffer without them.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by dcs View Post
                          We at times spend around 50% of the cost of our steed on our riding gear because we know bruises are not ornaments, nor are they Decoration.
                          Very well put. I totally agree, dcs.
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                          • #14
                            they used to stare because many people don't take elbow guard,bikers jacket,gloves etc as safety gears ...
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                            • #15
                              How true! I ride my R15 wearing a full face helmet (helmets are compulsory here), & a Probiker riding glove.. The helmet doesn't make people stare at me, but the combination of a riding glove & the R15 does. Initially, the stares people gave used to make me concious, but nowadays I don't even look around. People do keep passing comments, especially discussions between bike riders & their pillions.
                              But at the end of the day, we don't wear the riding gear for other road users, but for ourselves & because we understand & try to prepare ourselves for the kind of unforseen situations we as bike riders are prone to. So why bother about their stares or what they have to comment (in hush tones)..

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