Anyone ride with bandanas?
02-25-06 | 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by rvabiker
...check your local laws. In a lot of places it is illeagle to wear a mask or cover your face in public and a bandana looks suspicous...just saying.
02-25-06 | 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Aeroplane
Word. Last halloween nearly 400 children were arrested in my town.
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02-25-06 | 06:50 PM
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Were you wearing a bandana AND concealing a dangerous weapon?
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02-25-06 | 06:53 PM
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I wear the cut-off neck of a turtleneck shirt as a neck warmer and pull it over my nose when it gets real cold. When its stupidly cold I've worn my ski mask. Cops saw me and never did **** about it. In a lot of places it is alright to wear a mask but not alright to enter a buisness with the mask still on (obviously).
02-25-06 | 07:17 PM
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I have one on me all the time for assorted things, so I love them as masks. I work in a cabinet shop for 4 hrs a day then head to work. Most of the time when I come home and it's dark, the temp drops about 15 or so degrees. Around the mouth and nose and over the ears keeps them from getting cold from the wind. I do notice that after about 10 mins of riding that you create a little 'atmosphere' in the area around your mouth. For the ride I take, it's fine for. However, in a longer haul I can imagine that it the moisture would get quite cold. At that point I would use my ski mask.
While I've gotten strange looks from cops, I have yet to be stopped. I've wondered the same thing myself though.
While we are on the topic of face wraps, does anyone else have trouble with breathing through scarves? Do I just have a wierd allergy, or do scraves just make it difficult to breathe?
While I've gotten strange looks from cops, I have yet to be stopped. I've wondered the same thing myself though.
While we are on the topic of face wraps, does anyone else have trouble with breathing through scarves? Do I just have a wierd allergy, or do scraves just make it difficult to breathe?
02-25-06 | 07:34 PM
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Can we stop calling them balaclavas and refer to them as what they really are....Ninja Masks!
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02-25-06 | 08:39 PM
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Umm, all those bikes that I can see have gears.
02-25-06 | 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by williamw
that girl is totally in the bloods.
maybe they're going to rip those gears off once they finish their sparks. booze often leads to breaking things.
maybe they're going to rip those gears off once they finish their sparks. booze often leads to breaking things.
02-26-06 | 01:14 AM
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i wear a balaclava sometimes. i know a retired nypd cop and he told me just the other that- in nyc at least- it's actually a crime to wear one if you're in a group of 3 or more with everyone wearing them.
02-26-06 | 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by screamingveg
I rock the bandana for clean air, not warmth. Cars suck for breathing.
Oh ****, you have one of those microfiltering bandanas from the future? Kickass!
02-26-06 | 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by rvabiker
In CT it is a "class D" felony to commit assualt while wearing a mask or hood...which would give them probable cause to stop you and question you.
yeah... if an assault had just occurred and the assailant had been reported as having left the scene with a bandana on his face.
otherwise it's without probable cause and is just harassment.