At the very least, boots and gloves. I consider gloves the most important after your helmet.
Get at least one with a hard palm slider.



I once mildly fractured my wrist after a very mild low speed tumble after my MTB hit a rut. Took me nearly 3 months to "get back to normal". You can imagine a motorcycle crash will be more serious.

yes, ouch. Left hand summore, and I drive a manual. 5km/h , hit rut, bike endo me, hand to catch fall...koyak. If that is on a bicycle at 5km'h, imagine what happens at 50kmh... and yes, I was wearing padded MTB gloves.

Depends on what type of cycling. MTB will be off road, plenty of tumbles but lower speed. Still may end up with broken bones and lacerations. More serious injuries are rare...there are some of us that do wear protective gear.

Road cycling you need to worry about traffic
But then again, most motorcyclist don't wear any protective gear beyond a helmet and go 100kmh with no sense of self preservation filtering between traffic......no surprises why road fatalities are very high, especially for kapchai riders. Mentality is an issue here, no amount of protective gear will save you from a whack into a tree or a truck at 100...but every  little bit helps for less serious smacks.

I'm in full gear daily, and so many people ask me, not hot meh? Of course I'm hot....but I also like to keep a bit more skin and bones in case some idiot don't see me and cuts me off.

yeah, pinky brace or pinky link

Those are fake alpinestars btw, but got any armor is still better than no armor, imitation or not.

After listening to the advise here, I decided to go to one of Penang biggest motor shop and have a look. the staff recommended me alpinestar jacket and glove

oh shit, din know got fake 1...
RM180

i see, guess i will need go find proper armor padding to replace it 

are there any shop which i can get good padding?

i will go back and check tonight, i din open it up to have a look yet

thanks for the info.
yes i just checked the DC biker shop, the ori alpinestars protection paddings cost around 500+ for elbow, shoulder, and back.
most probably will go visit the shop this weekends and just get the ori paddings to replace the one inside my fake jacket
really did not expect taycon to sell fake stuff considering their huge reputation here in penang

I just took out the paddings from my fake jacket and wow they are literally just normal foam. Really won't provide any protection

Plan to cut some packaging PE foam for back padding.

guys, this might be a stupid question, but how do you normally fill up petrol on your bike?
say you use credit card, card approved, then do you sit on the bike (to let it be upright) or do you just leave it on the side stand and pump manually?

I said pump manually as in hold the pump yourself and not use the auto hold function? idk what's it called.
Cuz I've been driving for 10 years, and usually would just leave the pump handle with the auto hold thing clicked in, wait till it clicks out and stop on its own.

So for a bike, does that auto hold works?
Just asking cuz gonna go for my first refuel soon.. dont want any accident to happen.

thanks for your input.. basically filling it till the bream as much as you can fill..

Does everyone use bike with ABS here for highway usage?
If you aren't, what safety measure do you use?
Also is there a braking technique that is effective like ABS (for bikes that dont have ABS)?

Why do you want ABS for highway?

I think I know a bit a bit. Just asking fellow bikers why they want it specifically on highway.

so guys, back on the refueling topic for awhile
went to pump gas on saturday, I can't really see how much have I pumped into the tank, once the nozzle is in, there's barely any gap left to see the fuel level.
how do you guys gauge? just from experience to know how much you've pumped?

also, 1 thing is when I tilt the nozzle downwards (before putting into the tank) it squirted some leftovers out and onto my bike 

Yeah the Street Triple is a love it or hate it thing. In photos I feel it’s quite unique, in person I can’t get over the bug eyes.