Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

Weirdly on the gloves thing, I hate them, I can't understand how people wear them I hate the feel of the bars through gloves, I only wear them on the coldest of winter days so I can still move my fingers, even then I resent the fact that I have to wear them.
I would rather shred the skin on my hands to shit (which it would take a pretty gnarly fall to do so), my hands are pretty tough and heavily calloused/not very pretty so its no big deal, i've done it plenty of times, years of crashing constantly on my bmx and lifting weights without those gloves that the wimps use have toughened them up :)
I will be wearing a helmet now though, something i've been thinking about for a while, I used to wear one when I bmxed to, despite it being "cool" not to.

I thought that, but now I rarely ride without gloves on. Fingerless ones though