Standard rewetting drops should be fine, or solution if yours is eyeball safe (some aren’t so check first).

Your first bike is not your last bike. Get something used at first, but don’t get some shitbox that you have to rebuild. Get something used and reliable, in good shape, so you can feel safe and comfortable learning on it.

Most helmets will, if they fit properly. I use a modular helmet so I can just put my helmet on over my glasses, and it’s great for that. If you’re getting crushed, you may want to see if your helmet has different sized liners, and maybe grab a slightly smaller one (to give you more room, maybe it’s a bigger one?…

This looks cool, and I’ll definitely give it a try!

Rad!

I can’t get behind the suggestion to put mineral oil on your body.

My go-to for a non-boozy version is:

Agreed. Amor just knocked it out of the park this time! Everything was awesome.

I wonder how hard it would be to set it up a bit like a Murphy bed, where some of the desktop area swings up and out of the way when you’re not using it.

My current setup is a helmet with a Sena 20s, and some noise-canceling earbuds. It works great; I can still hear things like horns and sirens, but otherwise it’s gloriously quiet even at highway speeds.

I started riding a little over a year and a half ago. I think a lot of my friends and family thought it was a mid-life crisis, and maybe getting my endorsement was, but once I got on a bike and started going during my MSF class, I was hooked.

I owned that rabbit fur coat. It would have been around 1983 or so. It was shorter, though, and probably not as “fashionable” since we were poor.

Ahhh, it’s glorious to know that others are painting their toenails the same color as their vehicles.

If HJC fit you, you could try a Lazer Monaco. I started with an HJC, wasn’t impressed with its loudness, and switched to a Lazer Monaco. They go on sale pretty frequently, have the photochromatic visor, and are modular, so wearing glasses or just being able to flip up the front at the gas station is very easy.

Helmets often come with photochromatic visors (Transitions) now, which are amazingly convenient. You don’t have to switch out visors for light and dark.

I can’t say enough how good of an idea cutting out toxic people from our lives can be. Family, friends, whoever. Allowing these people to stay in your life for reasons like, “But they’re my blood! Blood is thicker than water!” and other completely stupid reasons, is a fool’s game.

I’d also recommend “Last Shift.” It’s pretty new, but it’s legitimately creepy and scary. I was impressed, since a lot of newer horror movies seem to rely on dumb gimmicks “LOL THE INTERNET” or “OMG THIS AMAZING FOUND FOOTAGE” and don’t have any real substance.

Nah, my rednecks are slightly more enlightened than that. We live about 30 miles outside Portland, so it tends to be townies who moved out “to the farmlands!” as some kind of proving grounds for their fortitude who are the worst.

Oh absolutely. I see people do it pretty often during my commute. It’s not legal to split here, but I see people doing it (badly) pretty frequently. One morning it was a guy and his girlfriend, neither wearing any gear besides helmets, and zipping between lanes, but, you know, also just switching lanes whenever…

Agree completely. Unfortunately, especially in rural areas (like where I live), giant trucks piloted by giant nimrods are pretty common.