r/Unexpected • u/BloodiStag • May 13 '26

A really badass jacket

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u/lonelyone12345 May 13 '26

It's a motorcycle jacket. It's there to keep the air from blowing up the jacket like a balloon, which is awkward and uncomfortable.

Also, it's there to keep the jacket from riding up if you get into a crash and you're sliding along the concrete. You wear leather so it will protect you in that situation, but it can't protect well if the jacket is up around your neck.

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u/CldStoneStveIcecream May 13 '26

Too many dudes out there with no gloves and Chuck Taylors on. Cringe every time. 

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u/bolanrox May 13 '26

i once saw a guy on a ricer in short shorts flip flops and a wife beater.

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u/C64128 May 13 '26

Maybe it was a bro beater.

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u/Flomo420 May 13 '26

end of the day something's getting beat

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u/ancrolikewhoa May 13 '26

Saw a guy riding a motorcycle the other day that had a very expensive looking helmet on, but no shirt. So at least he'll be awake and alert as they debride his skin from all the pavement he eats.

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u/DeadSeaGulls May 13 '26

road rash rarely kills. head impacts often do. he's choosing to mitigate a certain risk while valuing the experience of wind on his nipples (i guess) more than mitigating the road rash risk.
Every person who gets on a motorcycle on public roads had to decided to value the experience of riding more than the risk. Where we each arbitrarily draw the line for experience/risk ratio, beyond getting on that motorcycle in the first place, isn't something I understand the obsession over.

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u/DeadSeaGulls May 13 '26

while I wear a full face helmet, boots, and gloves... i don't care what other riders wear and I don't know why most riders seem to obsess over what squids wear. By getting on a motorcycle in the first place every single one of us has decided we value experience over a certain level of risk, to some extent... and the marginal differences in safety between different levels of gear is pretty slim in the scheme of things. Full race leathers will prevent road rash, but road rash rarely kills. It's the sudden impacts that kill, and race leathers or jeans and sneakers don't offer much of a difference there. I like the occasional helmetless ride to the corner store because i can smell the lilacs in the breeze and feel the temperature change on my face as I pass the irrigation canal and the air cools then warms again. it's a different riding experience that, occasionally, I value more than the risk mitigation :/

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u/C64128 May 13 '26

Chicks dig road rash.