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Ems (12/09/2007)
 Keep going though, you'll be able to fit into your lady's leathers soon!!!  Thats when you hit the nearest KFC 
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I rekon all clothing for bikers should be bought in the winter just after new year when the waistline is at it's worst. That way you know it's gonna fit right through summer as you loose all that weight on eating salad.
Don't slide unless you mean too.Be sure, ride safe and enjoy 
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Ems (12/09/2007)
Keep going though, you'll be able to fit into your lady's leathers soon!!!
Which is more than she can ...
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| OK peeps, can anyone reccomend a summer jacket and trousers? I am finding that by the time I have put on my Triumph waterproofs, boots and gloves that I am sweating like mad and feeling a little more than uncomfortable! There must be some jackets and trousers out there designed with the armour but without all that weight. I do not own a set of leathers, money prohibts this, so this is not an option saddly. It's that feeling of wanting the wind on the body and not the heat in the clothes that I want and opening the jacket just causes the thing to flap around buffeting. I am even thinking of buying an openface lid just to feel the wind somewhere on me! I must confess to slightly upsetting Randomgirly yesterday when she pointed out that I only had jeans and normal shoes on. "Where is the protection in that dad" I love the sun but I do like a breeze when out on my bike. Thinking of designing a mesh jacket with pockets for armour. Could be made out of Kevlar strands? Well they are making jeans out of Kevlar now but I don't think mesh jeans will catch on.
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| Probably depends how far up towards the waistband the mesh goes! Anyhow, jeans are good - the answer is that the protection is mental. Knowing that you are intrinsically more vulnerable makes you ride more safely. Allegedly, anyway. There is research to support it, just as with so-called safety aids, which make drivers/riders more willing to take risks because they have the extra margin for survival. I used to have a very nice Furygan textile jacket with detachable thermal lining that was thoroughly warm and waterproof in winter and cool and pleasant in summer. Sadly, it wore out and I've never found one as good since. Perhaps you want to be looking for a "three-season" type textile jacket rather than an "all-year": I would definitely recommend Furygan kit as a place to start. Flip-front helmet set to "open" is quite a good compromise. Not strictly legal unless you've got a Roof Boxer, but I've never been stopped for doing it. Not particularly uncomfortable, either. I suspect there's more to dig into the road than with an open-face if you fall off face-first, but it's not something that causes me sleepless nights... Think Wolf might've beaten you to the mesh jacket idea, though. Hoov's probably the best person to ask for a recommendation - he's a man with a lot of experience in the bike clothing field.
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I have a Richa Albatross textile suit. With the waterproof drop liner and the thermal inner, it has kept me warm through the winter. With those removed, the shell (still containing the armour) is pretty light and cool.
I've talked about this suit before, but I reckon it is blindingly good, although not cheap. But if I had to set off to the South of France tomorrow (as if ...) it's what I would take. I went for a quick zoom on the XT this morning wearing my usual leather jacket, and could hardly get it off afterwards, as I had built up so much sweat inside. So I don't think leathers are the answer, unless you can afford a ventilated set as well as the normal ones. But a ventilated set wouldn't get a lot of use in the UK.
Endo is right - Hoov knows more than us all put together on this.
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| I'm a dyed in the wool leathers man, if it rains I ignore it or chuck a one piece skin over the top. The problem I have is that with anything less substantial than my leathers on I feel vulnerable, I'll chuck a textile jacket on for bombing down the town but anything more than that it's leathers all the time. If you go for textile, pay for Cordura outer fabric, preferably Dupont Cordura, it's not cheap, but it's the proper stuff and very hard wearing, then you need a 'drop liner' underneath which is effectively the waterproof liner, again if you can afford it Gore-tex is the way to go, maybe Sympatex, the rest are generally generic derivatives of the originals and it's debatable whether they work as well as the two brand names just mentioned. If its hot you need to breathe, hence the Gore-Tex, the outer jacket will usually have vents for a bit of airflow, nice snug collar, check for additional comfort liner, 'peach Taslan' was always a comfy addition, make sure the jacjet and jeans come with body armour, that fits in the right places, CE approved and if possible with adjustment straps, so that you can tighten the jacket around you, prevents twisting and riding up if summat disatrous happens, big cuffs on the sleeves which can be adjusted to fit snugly around your wrists, this allows gloves on easy and then closure to suit. Same really applies for jeans. Ultimately it's what you feel comfy in and what the money in your pocket can buy. I spent £800 on leathers ten years ago and there must be at least another ten years in them, they seem almost indestructable. Have proofed them several times and in terms of waterproofing they aren't bad for a non waterproof product. I'm a major fan of Furygan, French, excellent quality and build. You get what you paid for. 
Gratuitous pic of me wearing my Furygan leathers, wouldn't be interested in wearing anything else
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My leathers are at least 17 years old (before body armour was heard of outside a race track) and I love 'em. They are my clothing of choice in most circumstances. But waterproof they ain't. I collected the GS500 in a downpour and by the time I got home (20 minutes max) they were doing a good impression of a chamois (the leather, not the quadruped). They took 3 days to dry out. So if it looks like more than just the odd shower, I go for the textile. That makes it roughly 90/10 textile in winter, and 90/10 leathers in summer. I feel more secure in the leathers, but the Cordura is fine, as the armour is in all the right places.
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| Aside from messing about in town or the short commute to work, for which I consider jeans an acceptable risk, it's leathers for me unless it's absolutely belting down. I have a Wolf jacket and Furygan trousers (both sold to me by the esteemed Mr Hoover, as it happens) which do a pretty good job of being cool enough in summer, warm enough in winter and will hold off light showers. If it gets brutally cold (the Wolf has too many stretch panels to be completely insulated), I'll resort to my textile jacket and excessive rain is the cue for the one-piece waterproof oversuit. Interesting, though, that for all the technology and cleverness in textiles these days, it's still leathers that people seem most attached to.
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endemoniada_88 (30/07/2008)
Interesting, though, that for all the technology and cleverness in textiles these days, it's still leathers that people seem most attached to. There's all sorts of reasons for that, and none of them to do with motorcycles or weather.
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