Steel Toed boots!  - pretty sure they saved my foot!

FF helmet... 100%...

Heavy leather will survive pavement...

"Armor"...(not really armor, just foam and plastic pads)... can help a little if you hit an immovable object...
It can also cause more damage than it helps, if it don't fit right... fit has to be tight so that pads are immobile
Textile, even Kevlar, will shred on pavement...

I wear boots with ankle covered, but one's that don't restrict ankle movement... if you restrict ankle movement, all pressures will be transferred to knees and hips...(rather have a broken ankle)...

Jeans don't slide, but what else you gonna' wear?...

Some gloves of course... I wear fingerless mostly... less protection, but palms and knuckles are most important...

That said,... my most serious crash, I was wearing a t-shirt,
with boots, gloves, and FF....
Sometimes it's just too hot.... ...

I was wearin a khaki welders shirt from TRactor supply when I went a slidin,, I guess I made about 50 feet or so before I landed on the bike in the ditch,, the spinning wheel cooked parts of a circle on it..It was slightly frayed in a coupla places, I still wear it. I had leather chaps on the legs.
Ive totaled 3 bikes, 2, no helmet, first one, IF Id been wearing a helmet, I woulda died from a busted neck. Second one, I didnt hit my head, 3rd one, I slammed face first into the cab corner of a pickup & bent it pretty good.. I suspect had I not been wearing a FF helmet I woulda, at best, lost my teeth & needed facial reconstructive surgery.
All that said, I owuldnt get on a bike w/o leather gloves, cuz you go down, youre usin those hands,,& a full co\verage helmet,, Lookm up the Hurt report, I think thats it, shows where most damage gets done,, & man, the face takes a beating on average..

Ragnar444 wrote on 04/19/14 at 13:23:36:


I've looked at those too. Seems like they might be worthwhile, but they are kinda pricey.

Temps go past 110' and I try not to go anywhere, even in a car with air... ...

I use dri rider jacket n trousers,look similar to the jacket in oldNslow's post. On a hot day when ya wear bugger all underneath it,it rubs the hell outta ya when walking around...moral of the story...don't stop or park closer to the door of the bar   (must add here that when on my bike's,it's top shelf raspberry and coke only,alcohol free rider) but the chicks at the bars love the ol savage  

The day the government mandates full face helmets is the day my bikes hit the metal shredder... I still take off my helmet as soon as I hit a freedom of choice state or a rally. Hate wearing the things.

At most, half helmet in the spring-summer-fall and a 3/4 shell in the winter. Some kind of torso leather if it is under 80, over 100 degrees F, I'm likely shirtless. Lace on boots or jackboots. Jeans, sometimes with chaps, sometimes without.

Armored leathers or textile? I don't do track days anymore, sent all that junk to the landfill after other riders took what they could use.

If you show up at my house, on a cruiser, wearing a full face helmet, you're leaving on your own... I will not ride with someone who has that much fear.