On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:09:29 GMT, Larry Jaques
vaguely proposed a theory
.......and in reply I say!:
When I laid a Kaw 90 down in the street, I was very glad
to have a heavy jacket on. It spun the sleeve off which
polished about 5 layers of skin off my right forearm. The

Ah! Leathers. Not my tale (I spent my days in an old army greatcoat),
but my mate's uncle and father used to race bikes back when..Vincent
HRD (?)...Indian etc. But They held the state bike speed record for
something like 20-25 years, up until maybe 20 years ago. Something
around 140mph.

....sorry. I knew them both well, and they were great blokes and a bit
of a legend in my young two-wheel days. They rebuilt their own bikes
and used to send argumentative letters to the Vincent factory about
exhaust design etc.

Anyway, these guys would ride races with t-shirt and sandshoes. Then
one day the uncle bought a full set of leathers. He fell off the
_first time_ he wore them, at around 100mph. He lost some skin off his
bum. He was really ****ed off about the new leathers though! G

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