[twodear]

As a minimum, due to the cooler weather where I was brought up, the minimum was jeans, boots, jacket. I only wore a helmet when my pop was looking.

Later, in the military, I wore a helmet of sorts 24/7, only because they forced me to. At this point, gloves were still the only optional thing as I'd grown accustomed to the other bits.

Now, I have difficulty walking up to one of my bikes without ATGATT.

soap box time: I've seen too many bad things happen to good people, fallen off too many times etc, to chance a mobility or life threatening injury merely because some of the gear might be occasionally inconvenient.