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12-29-2009, 10:54 PM
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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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12-30-2009, 08:42 AM
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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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12-30-2009, 09:13 AM
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 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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12-30-2009, 10:21 AM
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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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12-30-2009, 10:23 AM
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Back on xbhp!!!!
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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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12-30-2009, 10:35 AM
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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....
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12-30-2009, 10:40 AM
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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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12-30-2009, 10:47 AM
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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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12-30-2009, 10:51 AM
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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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