Loud pipes save lives!!

[ogri48]

Ogri, you just look so right on that thing - can't now picture you in "proper" gear ( :rolleyes ) on an FZ1. Been out on mine in jeans and trainers today  :eek just feels so much more natural to me as that's how I always used to ride. Can't wear all the protection as summer comes around - way too hot for me, plus, old dogs/new tricks an all that.

Amen to that brother, I'm all for the proper gear on a seriously fast ride, but there's summat about just flinging on a jacket and gloves, not just the freedom it feels like your enjoying but the nostalgia of the days when you rode in that gear because it was all you ( and your mates) had.
It's funny how your biking life can go full circle as you get older, you end up riding summat that gives you the same feeling you had when you started messing about on field bikes over the old airfield..if I could only have one, it would be that trumpet, I just don't do the miles or big runs that I used to. As cool as it may have looked spinning up outta the drive and through the paddock, I'm glad none of you saw me coming back, with a carrier bag with two big cartons of craven dales finest hanging off me bars...