If you put on floorboards you get to have the best of both. I often ride with my feet on the back of the boards so I can stand up for bumps and such.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.