I tend to wear protective gear all the time. That is MX boots, core-tex enduro suit, gloves, helmet, and upper body armour. It is kind of calming ritual to wear them and when I hit the road with all that gear I feel smarter than in my younger days when I wore WW2 Finnish FIghter Pilot leather helmet, shorts made of Jeans, moccasins, Nokia mobile phone, light enduro gloves, and tribal necklace.