why ride with knee pucks on full leathers?

[achtung6]

if you fall in your leathers with no pucks on you might screw up your velcro to the point that a knee puck won't stick to it.

Or screw up your knee that the otherwise "annoying" puck would have saved. You'll feel great knowing that you messed up your knee but damn, at least your weren't squidding it with a puck that you never drug on the ground, right?

While you're at it, take those mirrors and signals off your bike 'cause damn, they serve no purpose either.

The things we worry about. Just get out there and ride. If you don't like kneepucks, wear textile.

 

[busapassion]

LOL

 

[ntula]

u know, i thought about taking them off when i don't use them and having a velcro leather patch made at johnsons to put in place to protect the velcro.. but having them on probably saved me a knee injury when i went off the side of a mountain once... i had just bought a new pair of dainese leathers and was pretty much the first time i wore them on a long ride. there is nothing like that tight fit of new leathers and of course that feeling made me feel invincible in them and i of course went too fast for the road conditions and went off the side of a mountain.. ... ...nyway... when i came to, and gathered myself up from the blur, i could see the scuffs they put on the tank, the bars, and the wind shield mounts and the pucks had all sorts of abrasions from impacts... my knees were perfectly fine.

as far as feeling like a dork wearing them on the street, i just don't give a fuck about such things.. i only thought about taking them off because of the weight... and besides.. if you go to a goth/techno/industrial club in them.. they are quite fashionable.. yar sez the dark power ranger..

lesson... new leathers do not make you invincible and the pucks give your knees and leathers extra protection.

 

[Ogg]

My pucks are worn down but my leathers are pretty pristine. Does that mean everyone thinks I bought poser pucks? Damn. I so want respect and recognition from the general riding public...

I feel like a big shot when I wear them.

lolz to both

Thread starting to accumulate win

 

[canyonrat]

I think Triumph The Insult Dog would say, "get a life you ubber nerds!" LOL

Just one thing about comfort. If your knee hurts when wearing your leathers you can try taking the puck off, sitting on the bike, feet on pegs, then re-affix the puck.

 

[Gixxergirl1000]

There's always an asshole who thinks their thinking is the only way of thinking. Mind your own business if you don't have anything nice to say. P.s Quit breathing MY air while you're at it. You should concentrate on the deficiencies of your life and reach those goals instead of HATING on others. Did you buy a house yet? Save some money for your children's education? Or better yet, Have you moved out of your mothers house yet?

Hating on others = inability to buy a house?
Dunno, maybe take some of your own advice... read your first sentence, then make it work with the advice in your second sentence...

 

[Burning1]

Busapassion,

If you don't like to hear what other people have to say, I suggest you stick your fingers in your ears and say 'LALALALALALALALALA' for the rest of your life.

 

[EastBayDave]

...my leathers have a huge hard armor pad underneath where the pucks go. I don't worry about the above ^^^.

 

[sea bass]

you guys care too much about other people

 

[jraice]

what he said lol nothin bugs me more than the raven special edition that doesnt exist lol

I used to refer to my 05 as a Raven...

But I know its just paint. How is it any different than saying red or blue R6?

Hell the new LE is only new paint anyways, you going to hate on that as well?

And I ride on the street with the pucks. As of April I have touched them down a few times on the track but they still look practically brand new. I just don't use the knee, bikes tall its tough to drag. And I have actually tried to remove them a few times for random reasons, but they are REALLY stuck on there.

And as to the aero hump... I need mine .

 

[Ogg]

What hump?

 

[KazMan]

This thread is so full of road puckey!

But if I may dare to

I wonder what the OP is going to think of me. My pucks are so old, they are leather. And the ones before that were duct tape, and more duct tape. Heck it was a ritual before a ride/race, to carefully add more layers of duct tape in the proper manner.

So if he thinks these beautiful new fangled plastic knee pucks with cool designs are terrible to look at, what's he gonna think of me. But I was in good company of those who did the same thing...lol

oh oh, and for those of you who are just knicking your pucks...do what this n00b did and order these pucks

sorry, but I like anyone who rides 2 wheels...except for....lol

 

[fast4d]

platform knee pucks?

 

[Just J]

If you're annoyed by people wearing knee pucks for the street, I would hate to know what else you're annoyed at

"I get annoyed at my gf when she doesn't open the door for me"
"I get annoyed at my mom when she doesn't make me dinner"

 

[Brown81]

This thread is so full of road puckey!

But if I may dare to

I wonder what the OP is going to think of me. My pucks are so old, they are leather. And the ones before that were duct tape, and more duct tape. Heck it was a ritual before a ride/race, to carefully add more layers of duct tape in the proper manner.

So if he thinks these beautiful new fangled plastic knee pucks with cool designs are terrible to look at, what's he gonna think of me. But I was in good company of those who did the same thing...lol

oh oh, and for those of you who are just knicking your pucks...do what this n00b did and order these pucks

sorry, but I like anyone who rides 2 wheels...except for....lol

Epic pics!!

 

[Gixxergirl1000]

Where'd the OP go? I think you guys scared him!

 

[weak_link]

Interesting. In another thread the OP was complaining about people complaining and now he's made a thread complaing on the Internet.

 

[S4Alex]

I tried to take off my pucks once.. it took me squatting and two other guys to get it off. And that was just to get it off to reposition it. Those things are on there with some super velco sometimes.

 

[roadant]

I put new pucks on every time I go out for a street "session"..so you probably saw me before I got warmed up!

 

[Ogg]

Interesting. In another thread the OP was complaining about people complaining and now he's made a thread complaing on the Internet.

I hate people who do that.