...I decided to write this as I recently became a motorcycle enthusiast. I needed to buy things... I already had a decent helmet, gloves and boots but I needed a more winter orientated jacket. So I went shopping.
High street.
First there are high street motorcycle accessory stores. They tend to be very limited in motorcycle jackets... I wanted leather and not textile and found it difficult to find one. The second store I found was particularly useless as the cheapest jacket (although incredibly stylish) was 299 pounds and quite simply, I don'thave that sort of money.
Motorcycle dealers
Slightly cheaper and much more choice, I found. The bigger and more well known the store the better the range. Although most jackets I found were either two piece or brightly coloured (Not what I was looking for) and again the prices didn't vary...
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Advantages: Solid Protection Disadvantages: Can be bulky
...After 30 Years of riding a motorcycle and after being involved in a few bumps and scrapes I thought I would give you my experience of different clothing available to ensure your safety whilst riding a motorcycle. I myself ride the higher cc motorcycles but these apply to all motorcycles not just the big ones. The correct clothing can and will save your skin and life.
Luckily I have not had any serious accidents and the most serious injury was a broken shoulder, collarbone and a badly gashed leg (I was wearing normal denim jeans at the time). The last mishap happened two years ago whilst I was travelling to work. I commute down some very tight lanes and cannot get up any real speed so was only travelling at 40mph. I usually travel much faster on the open road. As I turned a bend a deer jumped straight out of the hedge in front...
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The good: The Zumo 550 provides text- and voice-guided directions to motorcyclists the unit has a built-in
MP3 player and integrated Bluetooth for hands-free calling (works great with Bluetooth helmet).
The interchangeable faceplates give you some... more
“Diarios De Motocicleta” is quite simply a reproduction of the travelogue kept by the twenty-three year old Ernesto Guevara (played by the rather gorgeous Gael García Bernal) who will one day be nicknamed Che, the Argentinean slang meaning “friend”. ... more
I first read Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance when i was about 14 and have re-read it about three times since then. I'm not sure I still completely understand it, and trying to give a summary isn't easy, but I will try.
It was a massive... more
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