Most squiden'ist squid

[Mr Sunshine]

Is the hump for aerodynamics, or does it keep the helmet from rocking too far backwards in the event of an accident, like a neck brace?  Or is it for water?

Aerodynamics.  Don't do anything for keeping your helmet rocking too far backwards.

On the aerodynamics side it helps keep your head stabile....at speds over 100mph in a full tuck.

[Mookie]

Plus you can put a water bladder in there. Or one of them fancy cooling fans (which I really want bad!)

[JoelCool]

BTW... I also use my hump as a purse, no need for a tank bag there is a zipper at the top, and the inside is hollow, surrounded by foam.

Oh COOL!!!  Now can we start talking about man purses???  

Great pic, VIVID1 !!!

[jeremy556]

I wear my Syed suit on the street and it has a hump. I bought it for the track, which is where I do almost of my riding, but when I go up to Deal’s Gap that is what I wear.

The hump serves no purpose on the street, but I am not going to shell out $1200+ for another set of leathers to use on the street just so it doesn't have a hump. I use my knee sliders on the street though  

[todao]

Wheel base
Sorry you kind of walked right into this one.  You know the net; either you are for the hump or you are not.

You can certainly find the hump amusing or funny; that's personal taste.

But calling it squidly is actually incorrect.  And in fact it's the opposite of squidly.  That's why others are taking you to task, you don't know the definitions.  Definitions are not a matter of interpretation.  So that rider for the reasons you cite as being squidly are incorrect.  If you had just said you found it odd, funny or downright hysterical, this thread would've never gotten past 5 posts.

[toddrod]

Hey look! It's Frau Blucher!!  (weeeeeehheeehheeeheee)

omg..I am just kidding!  

[evilmedic13]

  Boy did you stick you pecker in a hornets nest w/ this one! Net time you wanna see shit stirred, go to a waste treatment facility .

[toddrod]

shhh...maybe she won't see this!  

[Allan]

The true squid is what I saw a couple weeks back. Tshirt flying up his back, shorts, sandels, helmet on the helmet holder. Going 70MPH on the interstate in a full tuck. Not sure if the full tuck was to feel like he was ricky racer or just to keep the wind off him at 70.

Another note was a guy who was wearing a jacket and helmet. Hanging pratically his whole ass off his bike, while going around a decreaseing radius on ramp. At 25 MPH because the tuna boat in front of us was't going any faster.

[FrontlineAuto]

You mean he wasn't talking on a cell phone and had a helmet straped to the back of the bike but nothing on his head???!!! (while trying to reposition his BIG GULP better between his handlebars and windshield)

[Albie]

I've never seen any street rider with the hump on the back of his suit.  I think wearing the leather suit was smart, but if you can afford a full moto gp suit with the hump, then you should be able to afford one without the hump.  The hump is what I thought made him squidish.

So what you're saying is if you ride on the street and on the track you need to buy 2 sets of leathers? Your logic astounds me.  

[Albie]

Guess you can use the hump to hide your stash!!  

[davop]

Rush To Judgement!! If I take care of my own shit, I don't have so much time to take care of yours.

[jed]

I saw a guy the other day riding an R1 with flip flops, shorts, no shirt, no gloves, full face helmet, and holding a FEDEX box to the tank with his stomach.  Now that was squidly.  

[krautmc]

Hey all, new to the board but saw this thread and thought I'd jump in. A few years ago I was waiting at the top of highway 9 and along comes a guy in full leathers (no hump thus not gay) on an RC51. He wanted to chat and while we were standing there whipped out a Tequiza from his leathers and started pounding it. I had to suppress a laugh because I didn't know they still even made that god awful stuff.    Now that guy...was a squid, no doubt in my mind.

[Scratch33]

 and while we were standing there whipped out a Tequiza from his leathers and started pounding it.

I had to look that up.  That's a little better than what I'd initially thought you was talking about.

[oldenslow]

When he saw the guy in his gear, he says "Squid", if he would have seen you in your gear, he says "I'm in love"        

[meanstrk]

The hump is what I thought made him squidish.

I must be a squid too.......

Hmm..... Whatever.

[Rude_Rydah]

wheelsucker, perhaps the controversy here is in the terminology and not the intent.

I would maybe call this guy a poser (or poseur for the quasi-french among us) instead of a squid.  Here in the flat, straight corner of America that I live in, a guy dressed like that would seem over dressed (in the wrong set of protective gear?) unless he was coming back from a road trip to somewhere that has more real corners than off ramps.

If he was sitting on his bike at the Dariy Queen down at Virginia Beach with that gear on and 2 inch chicken strips, he might be a poser.  And you would be able to differentiate the posers from the squids because the squids would be wearing the mandatory t-shirt, khaki's, skull cap helmet, and sneakers.

What do you think?

Vivid is definitely not a squid, but if she was on the Cherohala just hanging out at a scenic overlook and puttering around with all that gear on, she MIGHT be called a poser (just an example....)

I almost think a poser with ATGATT might be the safer of the two at least to himself.

As always IMHO.

[stefrrr]

What he was wearing isn't the problem.  How was he riding?  Was he doing triple the speed limit and getting knees down on all the corners in traffic, or was he just riding?

The former is being a squid (IMO) regardless of skill.  Yes, you can be skilled yet still be a squid.

Hooray, the Skipper's back!!!