Hah my ghetto riding gear's not so cool? My old boots had been worn out to death and were pointless to use for protection so I used work boots and jeans instead of my riding pants and boots and I didn't worry about my jersey either. Since then I got some new boots (Thor Quadrants, they are great except the buckles are kinda chintzy, but the rest of the boots are very comfortable and protective, just crappy buckles, I already broke two) and two new jerseys from munnracing.com for 20 bucks shipped and I'm using my old ass riding pants still. Mix and match. The pants are from when I used to ride a cherry red '72 Kawasaki 175 2-stroke (man I miss that bike), but I don't really care about how the stuff looks, just how it works.
What you can't tell in the photo with my foot way off the peg is that I was doing these ridiculous karate kicks off that baby 6' jump but my gf couldn't get a photo of me doing them at full extension. It was pretty hilarious though I thought. Couldn't find any bigger jumps and I felt like screwing around in the air so it had to do. I didn't crash at all that trip, so yes, I did ride it out no problem.
I'm still getting used to the bike although I am now pretty comfortable on it. It's just still a little weird because it feels like the rear end has like 4" more suspension travel than even the new 450's from Japan and the forks are about the same as the Jap bikes. At least that's how it feels to me, it's probably about the same or maybe 2" max in reality. I have yet to bottom out the suspension, but I think I will when I get this beast on an MX track.
Now I'm going to masochistically torture myself as I ride up to LA from SD on this bike because my streetbike has the belt showing on the rear tire and I don't have the money just now to replace it and I can't afford the gas to drive my Suburban up there and back. It's nice that this bike is plated, but It definitely was not designed for the highway. Wish me luck because I think my ass is probably going to fall off of my body somewhere in Orange County this thing vibrates so much.