06-18-2014, 12:04 PM
In honor of this discussion on my ride tonight I wore my white open face helmet with flat shield, black leather jacket, black deerskin gloves and Hi Viz vest. Rode past my sons house and saw him out feeding the pony so I stopped. He told me he was out riding on his lunch hour with a co worker today and came upon a Harley rider who had just dropped his bike trying to avoid a deer ( this was at 11:30 a.m.) . The guy was wearing fingerless gloves and a half helmet and face planted on the road. Said he had a good case of rash on his face and palms of his hands. Said a full face helmet would have saved his face. Opined that my flat shield " might" have saved mine, he wasn't sure how strong the shield was lol. A safety lecture from my son lol. How ironic.