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FZ6If you’re looking for one bike to perform a multitude of missions, look no further.
Take it from Cycle World* Magazine - “For a more advanced rider looking for a bike to do it all, there is no other choice.”
You might as well tape Kleenex to your fingers. I wear short leather gloves in the summer, and I'm pretty sure Florida gets hotter than Connecticut. I've never had problems with heat. They do make vented gloves...
oh i know it gets way hotter down there. I lived down south for 2 summers and oh you guys have it worse.. but there are times where i dont want to where my gauntlet gloves and just want a lighter pair. those white a* arnt bad.. possibly a different color though
I met a guy who worked at the Honda dealership. I noticed his palms looked horrible, almost like he had received 3rd degree burns.
He told me he looped his R1 about a year ago wearing only “work out gloves” and a helmet. He landed face forward palms out and by the time his brain registered the pain, pulled his hands in and tucked, his hands were thoroughly exfoliated to the subcutaneous tissue.
But just one short year later his hands work fine (other then these huge blochy white spots on the palms). So I guess we can conclude gloves are not really “necessary”… Now if his hands had been amputated then I would say gloves are “definitely necessary”…
sometimes i ride the 3/4mi. from my office to the lunch spot, and if it's a hot day, i won't wear my jacket. short sleeve shirt, helmet.. and ALWAYS my gloves. I feel the most unprotected with no gloves on.... I don't want hairy palms.
Gloves are essential. Back when I was younger I was driving a go-ped going like 25mph and I fell and slid all across the pavement. I was wearing some Franklin baseball gloves, they ripped up. My hands were fine. If I wasn't wearing gloves my hands would have been f'd up.
Nah, but everytime I crash that's what I land in. Dog poo, cow poo, turkey poo, chinchilla poo, pig poo, bambi poo,... you name it.
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As the cars roar into Pennsylvania, the cradle of liberty, it seems apparent that our citizens are staying off the streets, which may make scoring particularly difficult, even with this year's rule changes. To recap those revisions: women are still worth 10 points more than men in all age brackets, but teenagers now rack up 40 points, and toddlers under 12 now rate a big 70 points. The big score: anyone, any sex, over 75 years old has been upped to 100 points.
2007 FZ6 (red) * Shogun frame sliders * K&N air filter * Puig racing windscreen * Pazzo shorty levers * Vizi-Tec smart brake light modulator * fender eliminator * FIAMM Freeway Blaster (low tone) * ProGrips gel grips * Grip Puppies * blacked-out radiator guards * BD43 Dual Headlight Mod * Racetech .95kg fork springs * 10wt fork oil 
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