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To be fair to r/harley, r/motorcycles used to have an extremely vocal ATGATT crowd, which was turning a lot of people off the subreddit, hence the creation of r/calamariraceteam (think about it), and some of these anti-ATGATT rules popping up in other moto reddits.
Personally, I'm a full-blown ATGATT nutjob, but I can understand why people might not want to be made to feel guilty about their life choices.
On the flipside, I'm pretty sure that most of the people who aren't actually ATGATT don't properly understand the risks that they're taking on. Many people say they understand the risks, but in my experience, most people believe, deep down, that they're special, and that it couldn't happen to them. I've seen too many "if only I had been wearing gear" threads to ever get on my motorcycle without full head-to-toe protection. But of course I'd say that, since I'm a crazy ATGATT nutjob.
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