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I have had great success with the Puig Sport Fairing on my Sport City which I have mentioned quite a few times. After I went down this spring at about 45 mph after hitting some sugar sand that blew across the road I only had to buff out the Puig with a headlight kit to restore it as it survived the impact remarkably well.

The Super Bike Toy Store in Stuart Florida had the best prices around when I purchased mine. Even if they do not list one for your bike a phone call or email will get you the correct one. They might now have an expanded section just for scooters now too.

Watch out - Honda is working on some of that.


Ducati is taking a different approach:


However people who choose to be SQUIDS riding without any gear are basically doing nothing but sucking down on everyone elses already diminishing finances.

Here is a guy who got off easy in a simple test ride around the parking lot at 20 mph and he is not a SQUID just took a chance on checking out his recent adjustments with a spin around his apartments parking lot without his gear:


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Where I live it costs about that to insure the scooter and have liability however because of all the gearless riders it adds $2,000 to $4,000 per year to the policy if you want Personal Injury Protection. Health insurance companies are reacting by listing riding as an extreme activity that is not covered while health insurance that covers riding if you do wear the mandatory riding gear is more expensive now. Because of a few free thinkers mouthing off about peoples rights to decide for themselves whether they should wear safety gear when they ride it has become so that that vocal few has decided for the silent majority that everyone now has to pay extra for Personal Injury Protection Insurance when they ride.

I would not mind if the anti-gear bigmouths paid for their poor choice on their own dime however they in effect have put their hands in every riders pocket to pay for their poor choice.

Those that get Darwin awards still drive our costs up since someone has to pay to retrieve the bodies and clean up the mess they make of things in their final moments.

I would prefer if the insurance companies just all lowered the rates as if everyone wore their gear and then universally denied personal injury protection coverage and death benefits to any rider who gets injured or dies riding without helmet, gloves, riding jacket, long pants and riding boots. The downside is that those folks that are determined to ride unprotected would become wards of the State with the burden paid for by our taxes. I took care of HUD Handicapped Housing and way too many of the handicapped residents were gearless riders that ended up disabled due to injuries in motorcycle accidents from lack of head or back protection. The dead still cost us for the evac and interment while the rest who had either no insurance or were denied insurance coverage for the lack of wearing gear in effect become wards of the state so we end up paying for their rent, groceries, clothes, daily meds, visiting nurses, home care aids, etc, etc.

Most really do not realize what people who throw caution to the wind cost us when we end up paying for the treatment of their preventable injuries. It would be hard to even calculate that accurately unless all police and medical responders accurately recorded each incident following set criteria and put these folks into a nationally accessible database.

I feel the wind through my mesh without the heat. Choose wisely and it adds to the fun and helps keep all our insurance rates down. People who ride without the proper gear on are driving insurance rates to insane levels for PIP and causing more and more insurance companies to put in coverage restrictions with some denying coverage if you do not wear a helmet, jacket, gloves, long pants and over the ankle boots while other health insurance companies now classify riding a motorcycle or scooter a uncovered high risk activity denying coverage regardless of what your wearing. Gearless riders are greatly responsible for the $2,000 per year rates some folks get charged if they want to add PIP to their motorcycle insurance policy.

Where I ride here in Tampa Bay there are very few places with 5 mph roads where you might get by riding in shorts with the majority of streets being 45+ mph so its all the gear all the time or take a chance on getting dumped on a searing 120 degree chip road at 50 mph. Wearing shorts and tees a chip road can strip you naked and then to the bone in very short order.

I am a Sicilian with heavy Phoenician and Moorish decent and really can only empathize with people who get sunburn however that does not make us immune to skin cancer. Its really miserable when they cut a flap off someones thigh to replace a scalp lost to skin cancer. The scars will give you the willies.

Don't understand the aversion to wearing gear that keeps the cancer rays off of you and makes your ride more comfortable. I ride year round almost every day and the mesh armored jacket, perforated gloves, long pants with armor and over the ankle boots on the 100+ degree roadways here in Tampa Bay make riding in the heat much more tolerable. Don't really need the police to encourage me to ride with my gear on.

On one fine summer day with roadway temps closing in on 118 degrees not that long ago I had a typical Harley rider in his vest with no shirt on and a bandanna instead of a helmet telling me it was too hot to be wearing a helmet as he was sitting there red roasted and dripping sweat looking like a chicken in a rotisserie while I was cool and dry protected from the sun in my armored mesh gear. I didn't need to change a thing to go out to a dinner party afterwards while he needed to hit the showers and get hydrated.

Choose the right gear for the climate you ride in and you will be more comfortable than going without and you will be safe too. With the money you save on the first few tickets you can buy the right gear and then the rest is money back in your pocket.

The Bullet was a better fit for me. I was playing Goldilocks and wish I had more time since the Indian Dealership said I met their criteria to be allowed test rides. 60 year old rider with over 40 years riding experience, a current MSF Riders Cert and no tickets.

The bike I really want to get ahold of is the Aprilia Mana 850 GT but they stopped bringing them into the USA unfortunately. They are very comfortable with a good seat height for me and now that they have the errors in the service manual corrected (bad translation from Italian to English turned a statement on the need to lubricate the CVT actuator into the opposite causing problems for some). Probably one of the nicest Sport Touring bikes made with the emphasis on Touring and totally under appreciated so we only see this engine in the USA in John Deer's high performance Gator: