....or safety conscious motorcyclist?
I need a new jacket to wear on the bike.
So, should I stick with the mean, moody and black, James Dean look or maybe go with the "textile but protectively armoured in all the right places", safety first idea? Does style really matter? Am I too concerned over how I will look off the bike rather than my comfort and safety on it?
The jacket I'm currently wearing is a classic styled patrol jacket. It's ten years old and has no armour. Though to be fair to it, it did protect me from at least one tumble and the resulting argument with a bus. It even has the scuffs and tears to show for it.
I'm really unsure about which way to go. Thinking about it, the question about armour is really an irrelevant one as whichever style I go for will have protection at shoulders and elbows.
I guess I can always buy a leather waistcoat for the patches and pins I'm inadvertently collecting. (Seems as though this is yet another Harley-owners trait which comes with the marque!). Then I'd still have the leather look, although it may well serve to emphasise the middle-aged tag in my blog title.
Buying all these accessories is taking up precious cash which I could be using to buy bits for the bike itself. That list is getting longer and longer.
Each time I come across another harley I pick up ideas about how I want MY bike to look. The joys of owning the most-customised bike make ever!
I need a new jacket to wear on the bike.
So, should I stick with the mean, moody and black, James Dean look or maybe go with the "textile but protectively armoured in all the right places", safety first idea? Does style really matter? Am I too concerned over how I will look off the bike rather than my comfort and safety on it?
The jacket I'm currently wearing is a classic styled patrol jacket. It's ten years old and has no armour. Though to be fair to it, it did protect me from at least one tumble and the resulting argument with a bus. It even has the scuffs and tears to show for it.
I'm really unsure about which way to go. Thinking about it, the question about armour is really an irrelevant one as whichever style I go for will have protection at shoulders and elbows.
I guess I can always buy a leather waistcoat for the patches and pins I'm inadvertently collecting. (Seems as though this is yet another Harley-owners trait which comes with the marque!). Then I'd still have the leather look, although it may well serve to emphasise the middle-aged tag in my blog title.
Buying all these accessories is taking up precious cash which I could be using to buy bits for the bike itself. That list is getting longer and longer.
Each time I come across another harley I pick up ideas about how I want MY bike to look. The joys of owning the most-customised bike make ever!
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