broke a cardinal rule about riding with shorts on...i was just going to the grocery a few miles away for a bottle of wine for the wife and i...came back and backed into the exhaust pipe with my right calf...that was done over a week ago and it's still incredibly painful...zp...

Ouch Zing , that sure does look sore .

Blinking heck Zing.

Next time get your wife to take your trousers off before she irons them!

(I actually think you were just having a little 'branding fun' earlier....)

Duncan

Oooo, I sympathise Zing , done the very same myself.
You must be faster than me though, to heat your exhaust more, your leg looks much worse
Get better soon Zinger

I won't try to teach you to suck eggs Tim, but there's a reason my bikes only got ridden in full leathers and I wince everytime I see someone riding in jeans or shorts or even worse without gloves.

It'll heal up soon enough and it's another cool scar to add to the collection!

i ride in blue jeans exclusively...the only time i use leathers is when it's pretty cold out in the spring and more likely autumn, otherwise they are just way too hot...zp...

I know what you mean about the heat, it was a happy trade off for me as the thought of coming off in normal clothes is frightening.

Never in shorts, mostly in jeans and long runs in leathers. Hope it heals soon Zing, looks like it stung that one.

Ooh shorts and bikes just do not mix mate....

Leathers all the time for me on runs out... you never know what could happen...the thought of getting the knee down without a slider on doesn't bear thinking about...

yeah but you're riding a rocket, i'm in an armchair...no road burn for me knock on wood...i have only ridden on the magna a couple times in my life w/shorts and swore i would never do it again but it was a spur of the moment "just down to the store and back" ruse...i won't say i'll never do it again but it's been 5 years or more since the last time...zp...

Was just a general comment ZP old bean... not aimed at you in particular....besides that it was meant in the past tense anyway as my riding days are unfortunately cut short....

i took no offense believe me...i just didn't want to take the time to change my clothes for a 10 minute ride start to finish and paid the price...and i didn't get burned until i got home and had parked the bike, gone inside and then back into the garage where the bike was...i just got too close to it and "sizzzzzzzzzzt", i lost some skin...stupid is as stupid does a great philosopher once said...zing gump...

I got that the first post zing. Easy done. Any bike that has a hot exhaust near your legs when you ride would just be a plain daft design Done it myself on my cultivator exhaust or gone to pick it up before allowing it time to cool down and quickly let it go!

What's a squimish btw - a cross between a squid and a fish