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Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:27 pm
by Hot_Air
I’m surprised that a style icon would treat motorcycle fashion with such casual disregard. What kind of sartorial example are you setting the rest of us?

Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:53 pm
by MrLongbeard
Hot_Air wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:27 pm
I’m surprised that a style icon would treat motorcycle fashion with such casual disregard. What kind of sartorial example are you setting the rest of us?
My MD was in the car park when I pulled in earlier this week, apparently I wear to much black to be safe (everything except the sole edging of my trainers and yellow palms on glove is as black as your hat) he got told to jog on an all.
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:28 pm
by Horse
MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:53 pm
My MD was in the car park when I pulled in earlier this week, apparently I wear to much black to be safe (everything except the sole edging of my trainers and yellow palms on glove is as black as your hat) he got told to jog on an all.
Ask him, if there was too much black, how he could see you?

Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:35 pm
by MrLongbeard
Horse wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:28 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:53 pm
My MD was in the car park when I pulled in earlier this week, apparently I wear to much black to be safe (everything except the sole edging of my trainers and yellow palms on glove is as black as your hat) he got told to jog on an all.
Ask him, if there was too much black, how he could see you?
He heard me first, loud pipes save lives init
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2021 6:42 pm
by Hot_Air
Yorick wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 10:06 pm
I want some shorty gloves to let air go up my leathers to cool me.
I have no experience with Five gloves beyond trying on a pair at a bike show. But their
SF1 gloves are CE certified to Level 2 (they're not cheap gloves, mind you).
@MrLongbeard I thought gloves required a long cuff for the CE2 rating, yet the
Five catalogue (p.54) says Level 2.
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2021 6:57 pm
by MrLongbeard
Hot_Air wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 6:42 pm
I have no experience with Five gloves beyond trying on a pair at a bike show. But their
SF1 gloves are CE certified to Level 2 (they're not cheap gloves, mind you).
@MrLongbeard I thought gloves required a long cuff for the CE2 rating, yet the
Five catalogue (p.54) says Level 2.
The standard requires 2" cuffs on level 2 gloves (measured from the assessors wrist line).
One moment please caller, wanders off to look at link.
Ah yes, they probably do have a 2" cuff, just judging by eye the amount of material below the thumb, it's much clearer on the palm view;
Shorties they are not
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:45 pm
by Hot_Air
Thanks, now I can tell my other half that two inches isn’t short

Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:38 pm
by formula400
Finally got round to getting my self a new Shoei.
Just waiting for a dark visor and pinlock to arrive, and get a full red bull logo kit on the way, should be quite fun trying to put that on.
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:55 pm
by Horse
formula400 wrote: Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:38 pm
logo kit on the way, should be quite fun trying to put that on.
Does warming the plastic (and possibly the helmet shell too)?
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 2:26 pm
by Tricky
A pair of trusty SP-8 V3s to replace the disappointingly trashed Furygans...
and some Harley branded

casual(ish) waterproof boots - who'd have thought it eh, me buying Harley stuff!
(just need the bike to go with them now

)
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 4:48 pm
by Skub
Tricky wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 2:26 pm
and some Harley branded

casual(ish) waterproof boots - who'd have thought it eh, me buying Harley stuff!
(just need the bike to go with them now

)
It's the thin end of the wedge,before you realise,it'll be chromed everything and butt plugs with tassels.

Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 4:50 pm
by KungFooBob
He could get tassels retrofitted to his existing butt plugs?
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2021 6:25 pm
by weeksy
The new Richa leathers i bought didn't really fit properly, so i sold them on Ebay.
Picked up this set of BKS cheap.
2021-10-11_03-01-04 by
Steve Weeks, on Flickr
Fit really nicely.
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:43 pm
by Bigyin
Replacement hard rucksack for carrying my stuff to and from work on the Fazer .....last one the zip fell apart after 2 years use so was cheaper to buy a new one than try and replace the zip...... 16 quid plus a fiver postage from Ze Germans
Bargaintastic

Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 8:10 pm
by formula400
Got this to keep me warm under the leathers, absolutely brilliant so far
https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorc ... rev/321645
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 8:13 pm
by formula400
Got this to keep me warm under the leathers, absolutely brilliant so far, keeps me proper warm and toasty
https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorc ... rev/321645
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:51 pm
by formula400
Got this lid a while ago, but finally got the Marquez kit fitted.
Pretty pleased

Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2021 6:19 am
by weeksy
formula400 wrote: Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:51 pm
Got this lid a while ago, but finally got the Marquez kit fitted.
Pretty pleased
On a Yamaha ! You know something we don't ?
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2021 7:10 am
by formula400
weeksy wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 6:19 am
formula400 wrote: Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:51 pm
Got this lid a while ago, but finally got the Marquez kit fitted.
Pretty pleased
On a Yamaha ! You know something we don't ?



Not even sure I’ll wear it much, it’s just a pretty cool to look at, plus I can’t ever see me having a Honda.
Re: New riding kit, what have you bought lately and why?
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:13 pm
by Dodgy69
Hand gaurds for the MT. 2 birds 1 stone.

