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why wouldn't you be wearing your helmet and leathers?
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Helmet, sure. Leathers? Only on the track. I've been road racing and flat tracking for about 35 years off and on and I have a couple sets of race leathers, but not for the street. It's normally near 100 degrees down here and I just have a Brosh armored kevlar summer mesh jacket, wear boots, light gloves. Winter, I have a tourmaster heavier armored coat and heavier gloves. I've crashed, I've had road rash. I know what it's like. I don't wanna find out what heat stroke is like and, besides, I ride for transportation, not just pleasure. I ain't going to slip into full race leathers to ride down the street and pay the water bill. :rolleyes:
 
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My wife and I ride seperate bikes. We both always carry. If one breaksdown and has to hitch a ride, the other stays with the bikes. Both of us are then protected. We been luck so far and never had to seperate due to mechanical issues. Hope we never have to, but if we ever do, we're at least prepared and able to defend against any bad guys.
 
Rohrbaugh R9S in a Milt Sparks pocket holster, right front pocket. 07 Street Glide. 98 Road King Classic.
 
My regular daily Colt OACP in my regular every day milt sparks holster. Every day at work I carry on my right hip. Every time I'm out of the house on errands/fun it's on my right hip. Where do you think I'm going to look for it if I need it?

With the quality of mesh jackets available, I always wear a jacket, even on 100 plus degree days. You sweat a lot more if you're sitting still, but that sweat turns into a temporary air conditioner as soon as you start moving. Plus, no sun burn and it has some slight degree of armor and abrasion resistance.

On days when I've worn designated riding pants and not just jeans (should be more frequent than it is) I've had to come up with a solution for riding pants without belt loops. I've started wearing a cheap, thin pair of synthetic shorts under my riding pants and hooking onto that. Double IWB.
 
I typically have a dog or a 12g in the sidecar. Sometimes both. Really works well when I want to carry a few cases of ammo to the range and some long guns.

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I second the comments about needing the handgun on your person rather than the bike. For me I've found the riding jackets I wear have sufficient pockets to carry in one of them. I don't leave my jacket on my bike but wear or carry it into any diner.

One or two folks mentioned carrying in a tank bag. Unless you remove and take it in hand when ever you dismount, I don't think that is wise carry location as tank bags are generally real easy to grab and run with.

Ralph
 
another vote for carrying on your person.

and also another vote for not wearing leathers during texas summers if you ride everyday. i'll take the road rash over the heat. seriously.
 
Bianchi OWB slide and camp shirt. I haven't had any problems, although I ride a Goldwing everyday and can sort of sit on the back of the shirt.
 
I carry when riding as well, and prefer to have it on me. It sits IWB around 4-5 o'clock, covered by my pants and my riding jacket. My gun even survived a nasty spill last winter when I went down on black ice.
 
I typically have a dog or a 12g in the sidecar. Sometimes both. Really works well when I want to carry a few cases of ammo to the range and some long guns.
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That's an awesome picture. I bet he/she just loves riding in the sidecar too. If there's one thing dogs love, it's having the wind blow in their face. You can be going 70mph, and they'll still have their heads hanging out the window if you let 'em.
 
EG mak or my walther PP both fit in my inner pocket of my leather jacket.the PP is just 1 step better than throwing rocks but I like it:D.
pete
 
With the quality of mesh jackets available, I always wear a jacket, even on 100 plus degree days. You sweat a lot more if you're sitting still, but that sweat turns into a temporary air conditioner as soon as you start moving. Plus, no sun burn and it has some slight degree of armor and abrasion resistance.
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Well, with humidity in the 75 to 80 percent, evaporation rates ain't that great. :D However, the Brosh jacket is very thin in the non-crash stress areas and, yet, doesn't allow the sun in. It's very nice on a long ride for keeping the sunburn off me and actually cooler than not wearing it. On long trips if it gets really hot like out in the desert where there IS evaporative cooling, for a brief respite, I'll dump water on the jacket. LOL You get desperate when the thermometer is up in the 110s. Without the jacket, you'd be toasted pretty quick in that dry air, toasted and dehydrated. I learned that the hard way. :D

I pocket carry on or off the bike anymore. Before I started pocket carry, I got a Mitch Rosen Workman tuckable for my Kel Tec, kept the shirt tail from flying or pulling up. For me, pocket carry is the best, though.
 
In Las Vegas here, or out of town...ambient temps can be fairly Hot at times.


I've sat at a light watching fumes roiling out of other people's Gas Tanks, where their Gasolene was literally 'boiling' in the Tanks from Engine Heat in already 118 or more degree ambience.


Mine never did ('boil')...for which I was grateful.


But, even when Hot out, I always wore Heavy higher-than-Ankle Boots, Heavy cloth Pants, a heavy Horsehide Leather Jacket...and good Leather Gloves.

I'd leave my Jacket unzipped, open, and that always seemed confortable-enough.


Getting to a destination, might mean shucking the Jacket, so, 'Pocket Carry' made the most sense to me as a routine...as well as a routine the rest of the time, when usually, a light shirt or T-Shirt and Levis was the dress-de-jur.
 
About a month ago I spotted a guy on sportbike wearing medical scrubs. His concealed carry 1911 in a small-of the-back (SOB) holster was no longer concealed due to the reach to the handlebars.
 
Ok, Mcgunner, I concede that I live in a very low humidity area, so my comments may not hold true where you live. Where I'm at, once I get to a speed of around 30 mph, my jacket doesn't make much of a difference. I guess if the sweat from the last towns traffic lights never really dried off once I got moving again the issue might be different. I can see where I could be incorrect on that.
 
I used to carry when I rode. OWB, about 4 oclock position. Then I took a fall and skidded down the road a few feet. I came down on the gun, which left a pretty good bruise and ground the holster and gun up a bit.

After that the gun went in the topcase.

YMMV.
 
Anyone who carries anything in the small of the back on a m/cycle is asking to join a wheel chair club?????? Heres an example ! A friend of mine in the uk runs a wheel chair basket ball team. his star player is a young guy 23/24 yrs old ex bike rider ! he put a can of coca cola in a waist bag then moved it round into the small of his back ! car pulled out he hit the tarmac ????? Gun or a can of coke it will do the same damage [ cajunbass! your a lucky man ]
 
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One advantage I've got over a lot of guys, I have plenty of experience crashing. ROFL So long as I ain't goin' over the high side, I know what to expect. I've been over the high side twice and can't really remember much about the rest of the day. Concussions are a weird experience.
 
didn't go through all the other posts, but I carry a 638 snub in a tuckable single clipped nylon IWB right at 1 oclock. cant it over to fit just right and it carrys GREAT, especially when riding the moto.
 
Carry in my tank bag while riding. Slip it into my jacket, inner pocket when I park. In my state it is a good idea to have a CCW permit to carry in anyway (except open) on a motorcycle. On ATV's and snowmobiles, for some reason, it is illegal to carry concealed, even with a permit.
 
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Helmet, sure. Leathers? Only on the track. I've been road racing and flat tracking for about 35 years off and on and I have a couple sets of race leathers, but not for the street. It's normally near 100 degrees down here and I just have a Brosh armored kevlar summer mesh jacket, wear boots, light gloves. Winter, I have a tourmaster heavier armored coat and heavier gloves. I've crashed, I've had road rash. I know what it's like. I don't wanna find out what heat stroke is like and, besides, I ride for transportation, not just pleasure. I ain't going to slip into full race leathers to ride down the street and pay the water bill. :rolleyes:
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Grew up flat tracking , still roadracing at past fifty. And I wear full gear no matter how hot it is , no mesh, 2 piece Alpinestars or one piece Bates and yes it does get hot here , but I'd rather sweat than bleed.

Can't carry while riding here but in other locales would carry a 3 inch model 24 in .44 special in a left side shoulder rig , even practiced left handed , I'm not about to put a throttle lock on the Gsxr or the Hondas , the BMW has one but I never use it.

It's slow to get access to it because you have to unzip your leathers and get to it , gloves are a problem too. but at least with a shoulder holster it's tacked away if you bin it so you don't land your hip on the sidearm or get your back broken as you might with small of the back carry.

All in all tankbag carry seems a more viable option.
 
I carry using a IWB holster or shoulder holster and carry everything from a Kel-Tec P3AT to a 1911 while I ride. I was using a IWB with a PA63 stuffed in it when I went down back in March and no problems since it was on my hip. I don't think I would want to use OC or IWB with it in front or back. The way I landed, if the pistol would have been in front or back, I would have gotten worse injuries.
 
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