How to adapt motorcycle gear to protect you in a riot

This picture comes from Athens, where continued economic protests erupted into violent rioting this week. News outlets peg the numbers of people involved between 50,000 and 100,000 and there’s reports of deaths, injuries and many arrests. 2011 has been a year marked by protests and rioting from Egypt to Syria to the revolution in Libya and now even the so-far-peaceful Occupy protests in US cities. As demonstrated in this picture, mass protests can turn violent unexpectedly, but you might already have the gear to protect yourself in them waiting in your closet. Your motorcycle closet.

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