That's what I do. Bought a bright yellow armored jacket with adjustable air vents and zip out lining. The vents work very well letting in air and letting it exhaust at the back, it is only gets warm when you stop. I wear good quality gloves and heavy 8" boots as I have learned from a friends accident that ankles are difficult to reconstruct. Almost learned the hard way the other day about long boot laces. I have a good Bell full face helmet. The rider safety courses are very popular, no vacancies till August. Lots of O'doul's amber in the fridge.
Very sobering afternoon. I spent several hours riding around on the neighborhood streets and practicing starts and stops along with restarting the bike (kick starter) at the church parking lot. Since I am not ready for busy traffic I went home to get the car to go to the grocery store. A major intersection was blocked off with at least four police cars and an accident investigation van. In the middle of the intersection was a motorcycle on its side, absolutely destroyed. Watched the late news tonight. The rider was killed, a helmet was present at the scene but the police think it was strapped to the bike, he was not wearing it. Preliminary investigation has surmised a car made a left turn in front of the bike, the bike may have been speeding.