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Re: Casual Motorcycle Jackets

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I still wear my 2000 Alpinestars Dyno as a day-to-day jacket, this is me last weekend. I do wonder if they're gonna relaunch it as a retro jacket (if they haven't already, I don't really pay attention to these things).

I've been meaning for ages to get it altered to remove the baggyness where the padding used to be.

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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue May 18, 2021 3:51 pm I still wear my 2000 Alpinestars Dyno as a day-to-day jacket, this is me last weekend. I do wonder if they're gonna relaunch it as a retro jacket (if they haven't already, I don't really pay attention to these things).

I've been meaning for ages to get it altered to remove the baggyness where the padding used to be.

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I think you're kidding yourself if you think that needs taking in
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weeksy wrote: Tue May 18, 2021 4:39 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue May 18, 2021 3:51 pm I still wear my 2000 Alpinestars Dyno as a day-to-day jacket, this is me last weekend. I do wonder if they're gonna relaunch it as a retro jacket (if they haven't already, I don't really pay attention to these things).

I've been meaning for ages to get it altered to remove the baggyness where the padding used to be.

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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue May 18, 2021 3:51 pm I still wear my 2000 Alpinestars Dyno as a day-to-day jacket, this is me last weekend. I do wonder if they're gonna relaunch it as a retro jacket (if they haven't already, I don't really pay attention to these things).

I've been meaning for ages to get it altered to remove the baggyness where the padding used to be.

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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue May 18, 2021 4:40 pm I think you're kidding yourself if you think that needs taking in
Ita more the bingo wings I want to get rid of :D Its till got the shoulder armour in cause you can't take it out, but the elbow stuff is long gone.

Even when I was 16 it was snug around the middle, cause I bought it that way.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue May 18, 2021 5:36 pm
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue May 18, 2021 4:40 pm I think you're kidding yourself if you think that needs taking in
Ita more the bingo wings I want to get rid of :D Its till got the shoulder armour in cause you can't take it out, but the elbow stuff is long gone.

Even when I was 16 it was snug around the middle, cause I bought it that way.
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I weighed more when i was 16 than i do now :) So yeah, i'd have been OK.
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I was about 10 stone when I was 16, I'm about 11.5 now. I also still fit the MTM leathers I got when I was 22....they're pretty retro too actually.

IsTR that Alpinestars was the smallest size they had when I bought it and that I looked like I borrowed it from my Dad cause the chest/shoulders were way too big. I rode my moped in it cause I knew I was gonna buy a bike when I was 17.
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You can't beat a lived in leather jacket (not knackered though!). They just rock in a way new ones just can't. And the fact you have to work at it makes it even better.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed May 19, 2021 6:52 am I was about 10 stone when I was 16, I'm about 11.5 now. I also still fit the MTM leathers I got when I was 22....they're pretty retro too actually.

IsTR that Alpinestars was the smallest size they had when I bought it and that I looked like I borrowed it from my Dad cause the chest/shoulders were way too big. I rode my moped in it cause I knew I was gonna buy a bike when I was 17.
I was about 10 stone from about 18 to 37, mostly because I didn't eat much, then we had children and there was more food in the house and I spent more time at home, so I started eating between meals, a habit I can't seem (try hard enough) to get out of.
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Supermofo wrote: Wed May 19, 2021 8:40 am You can't beat a lived in leather jacket (not knackered though!). They just rock in a way new ones just can't. And the fact you have to work at it makes it even better.
There's a certain truth to that.

Years ago, I had Frank Thomas leather jacket - not particularly expensive, but I'd ridden through a 3 hour downpour in it (it didn't leak, amazingly, but DID soak up every drop that hit it), and after that it fitted me absolutely like a glove.

For some unknown reason I gave it away to a uni friend of mine. :crazy:
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