$220 they cost me... which in English pounds is about £80-£90. They're about the same over here.

Top-spec winter gloves from Dainese, featuring thermoformed Techno armour inserts, a breathable and waterproof Goretex membrane, and thermal Primaloft padding.

They also have a new zip-fastening cuff, Lorica palm reinforcement, and a waterproof double cuff.

Yamaha FZS 600 Fazer ... in gold! 

Ride safe, and look out for the Rainbow of Death!

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^{Roses are red, Violets are Blue, I'm a schizophrenic ..... and so am I!}

^{Take pity on the man who invented the drawing board, when he screwed up, he had nothing to fall back on.}

^{Stuff everything, I've always got my bike.}

BD, what was your first riding gear? I struggle to believe how rubbish mine was.

Centurion full face helmet, polycarb, non fitting, £35 new, quickly ditched for battered and aged black pisspot (which in hindsight was all it was good for), cowboy boots, fashion leather jacket, (very thin) gardening gloves and a special scarf knitted by my Nan. Waterproofs were for Nancy's. I used to get very wet and very cold, but hey I was 16 and indestructible at the time. The choice of bike gear around in the early eighties was diabolical, Frank Thomas gear or not alot else if you were a poverty stricken teenager rebelling against the world astride a mighty Yamaha FS1-E

Sideways through time

When I eventually got my Norton Atlas (With Palma child/adult sidecar) I bought myself a Lewis Leathers Fringed lightning jacket and a pair of steel plated boots to kick the thing into life with. Studded the back of the jacket with my name and bought Sharon one as well and did the same. The gauntlet gloves were my Dads idea from when he rode his Enfield (A litle after the war when bikes were the norm/ish). Jeans were the order of the day and being  a fairly smart person I used to get my mum to iron a crease in them!

I did not get any better clothes when I traded the Atlas for the Bonnie but did buy myself a fullface lid which was black and sinister!  Was a well known make at the time (70's) but for the life of mr I cannot remember what it was! Every peice of clothing was specifically designed to soak up as much water as possible when it rained!

Don't slide unless you mean too.

Be sure, ride safe and enjoy

This was 1972, remember.  Top to bottom:

Centurion open-face lid (yellow) with bubble visor with scarf (red) wrapped round face bandit-stylee

Black leather Brando-style jacket, old and battered with an eagle sprayed in silver on the back (bought from a friend while drunk, £5), with thick roll-neck jumper beneath, thin jumper beneath that, thermal vest beneath that.

Jeans with long-johns beneath (and, if really cold, a pair of Mum's tights beneath them - don't knock it, they really work).

Ex-fireman's boots bought from Army & Navy Stores, with thick white fisherman's socks underneath.

Fleece-lined mitts with leather on the hand parts and PVC on the wrist parts.

If wet, cheap Army & Navy cagoule over the top, and yellow waterproof PVC trousers on the bottom.  Oh, and Barbour waxed-cotton overmitts, which made any use of the controls almost impossible.

I rode from Leeds to Bangor and back (across the Pennines before they built the M62, winter and summer) several times, and even round Ireland, dressed like that.  Dear God, I wish I had a photo!

And kids today ....

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2003 ST1300 Pan Euro
1995 Yam XT600E
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Nice to remember thing occasionally!

It's an age thing right BD? Acctually I blame everything on that anyway.

Don't slide unless you mean too.

Be sure, ride safe and enjoy