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#1
06-09-2004, 04:27 PM
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Question about gear.
I've been looking around at extra gear. I already have an Icon Neodaytona jacket, which I am happy with so far. At a stop it gets hot, but once you're moving again it's fine. I have been reading some forums, and keep reading that even for normal street driving, jeans are not enough. Thinking about looking into riding pants, but wasn't sure what would be a good investment. If anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it. I figure, a lot of tools around here will laugh at me for being in riding pants on a 250, but better safe than sorry, and on a 250 I can still go down at 70+.
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06-09-2004, 04:51 PM
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Re: Question about gear.
2 of my friends went down this past weekend... one was in full leathers, the other was in a mesh jacket and jeans. Granted,the 2 accidents were not identical, but the guy in the full leathers is just a little stiff. He rode the bike home with a borrowed brake lever. The guy in jeans had a concussion, some road rash where his jeans didn't give way, and scrapes where the jeans did give way. He was taken to the hospital. He's currently on Tylenol 3's for the pain b/c he didn't want vics or percs.
Basically, if you have a jacket you like, try to find a set of pants that will zip into the jacket. If you stick to leather, then you can use them for street or track.
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#3
06-09-2004, 04:57 PM
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Thanks Saturn. After reading every post in this forum, I've seen you to be quite helpful. I've been looking at the Icon pants too. Gonna be going to my local shop this weekend to see what they can do for me. They've been real good about kissing my ass price-wise since I bought all my stuff from them, bike included. I guess I was also wondering if Icon is decent gear. Jacket feels nice n heavy, seams seem sturdy too. And of course it has all the padding in the forearms, shoulders and back. Thanks for the quick reply.
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06-09-2004, 05:41 PM
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Re: Question about gear.
Try to find perforated leather pants, otherwise they tend to get a little hot.
Jeans will save your skin if you are going under 40mph, however they tend to get torn after that very easily. My friend went down in sandals, shorts, and a shirt, he has roadrash all over his body, VERY painful. And he only went down at about 30mph.
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......or if your a loser who drives a Civic with a type R sticker, racing stripes, blasting really bad rap music through your suburban area with your pretentious "I’m 21 but I’m still in high school girlfriend" while driving with your hand up on the top of the steering wheel exposing your underdeveloped pasty white vitamin deficient arm and wearing your backwards BS upside down visor hat while feeling the tacky as a "Florida vacation" single diamond earring in your ear, If you are this person...with any luck the sun in its precise celestial positioning as you putter on by...will reflect its scorching rays into your earring, bouncing intensely in your rearview, and finally making contact with your eyes through the thin cheap lense of $5 gas station Oakley rip off glasses.. then burning your retnal cones into smoldering melting gobs of ocular material as you are blinded by the purest form of energy in our known universe, and as you scream no one can help or hear you because they don’t know what’s going on since the weed whacker sound of your shitty tiny little muffler which makes the Civic sound like a 747 rages on underneath making everyone turn at disgust and comment to thier husbands or wives how much of a dickweed you are by attaching that automotive abnormality to your stock economical daily driver engineered by Japanese Automotive specialists to fit the needs for entry level business workers in their early 30's, however your pathetic looking $11,000 car which you want to look like a friggin spaceship with redundant ground effects is now out of control since you are blinded, and as your car plunges off the side of a cliff while you scream in the purest form of terror while knowing you have lived a horrid excuse for a life, by doing the bare minimum in every facet of existence, while getting fired from one pathetic job to another, the majority of your time spent slacking smoking dope, getting kicked out of school, polishing your "game" on sweet innocent underage girls you eventually 'de flower' through exhaustive yet succesful attempts to get the date rapist drugs you have stashed in the glove compartment, into your poor victims drinks while offering them to take the "Pepsi Challenge" while making your mother hate you, and your poor father who wishes he had a daughter instead of your pathetic ass, since a girl would be more of a man than you ever were, like the occasion when you were hit in the arm by a wild pitch in little league, then you cried like a fat kid who dropped his ice cream cone, I'm already envisioning you impacting the rocks below, in a spectacular fireball ignited from the residue hairspray from your girlfriend plastered in the fabric passenger seat, blinded by your earring, deafened by the loud "Bling Blingin", and I will smile and roll around on the ground in orgasmic delight while you are consumed by flames whose intense heat and fury will liquefy your bone marrow that I will use to make jelly beans out of and eat them happily at your funeral as midgets dressed like Alex 6005321 from "A Clockwork Orange" dance around your coffin to loud industrial style techno music and strobe lights, and I will sleep soundly at night knowing another successful conquest of Darwinism has been attained.
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#5
06-09-2004, 06:06 PM
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That sounds pretty ouch to me. I'm glad to hear he's ok. I was actually looking at a pair of Icon mesh pants for summer riding. http://www.onlineparts.com/ICON+Timex+Mesh+Pants+Standard+Lenth+(Black)+(2821 0033).html is actually what I'm considering. Are those worth it, or should I just go all leather. Since I'm also asking about gear, I may as well ask, the Shoei RF-1000 helmet...good one? Right now I have a CKX that I bought so I had something for taking my MSF course. Definitely not ventilated enough, and I know Shoei and Arai are like the best, but Arai is currently way out of my price range.
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06-09-2004, 06:09 PM
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Re: Question about gear.
I also just noticed after double checking my jacket, no zipper at the bottom for zipping into the pants or vice-versa. Is that a serious problem?
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06-10-2004, 04:18 PM
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Not meaning to intrued... but while riding gear is being discussed... if money was not an issue what brand would you go with for leathers, gloves, and boots?
Thanks.
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06-10-2004, 04:34 PM
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Re: Re: Question about gear.
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06-10-2004, 04:55 PM
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I don't know if I plan on doing any track riding. I definitely didn't buy my bike for speed. I just wanted something as fun, but more fuel efficient than my Wrangler. Saturn, did those pants seem ok for normal street riding that would basically just be commuting? You also sound like the type of girl that I need more of around here
 Dark, as far as gear, with money not being an issue, I've heard a lot of people talking, all saying good things about Vanson for leathers. Gloves I hear a lot of people talking about AlpineStars http://www.kneedraggers.com/details/33-ALP-3 are the gloves I have Not much riding time, but when I took my MSF class, I had em on for 6 hrs straight and was comfortable the whole time. Sidi for boots: http://www.newenough.com/sidi_vertebra_2_boots_page.htm seem to be the popular choice. On a final note, my MSF paperwork can't get to me from Albany fast enough. I WANNA RIDE!!!
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06-11-2004, 03:39 AM
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g'day all. don't know if they are available in the states but down here we have jeans purpose built for bikes that are as good as leathers. the are 'draggin jeans' and 'redmax' brands. both have kevlar stitching and full re-inforcement where you need it most.check ou their websites
www.dragginjeans.com.au as for helmets. i think you should spend as much money as you think your head is worth. i go for shoei over arai only for comfort.
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06-12-2004, 06:13 PM
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Re: Question about gear.
We have "Draggin Jeans" as well as a version from... crap.... what's their name? Well, we have 2 companies who offer kevlar-reinfoced patches. But for $80 USD, you may as well shell out an extra $40 or less to get a pair of real riding pants, whether textile or maybe REALLY cheap leathers. At least riding pants offer the chance to put on some knee pucks for a good ole' knee-draggin time!
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06-12-2004, 08:41 PM
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Down here the jeans are $200AUS but cheap leathers with any knee protection are $400+AUS. My Dainese pants with no velcro for knee sliders were $650AUS so for us the jeans offer 'cheap' protection on rides where leathers aren't suitable.
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06-12-2004, 10:35 PM
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Re: Question about gear.
Sounds to me like I should talk to Saturn about riding lessons. That whole knee draggin thing kinda scares me. Having bad knees already, the thought of dragging em along the ground while whippin through a curve at 70 doesn't thrill me. But Saturn seems to be a REAL rider who knows her stuff and how to be safe.
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