Boots and helmet??

[Little Miss Trouble]

As a newbie I've been asking everyone I come accross all sorts of questions, sorry to the guy I kinda ambushed in the supermarket the other day!
One of the opinions I've heard a few times is, if you cant afford the best of everything, go higher quality in your boots and helmet, obviously jacket and pants need to of reasonable quality to protect you but that you can put up with them not being quite as good.
What do you all think of that theory? Can anyone suggest what I should be after?
Grant at Spectrum here on the North Shore was going to set me up with an HJC helmet(XS), Spool jacket and pants, boots we hadn't gotten to yet, I take about a 42 i think (tried on some really comfy Dainese boots at Motomail)

[Devil]

To start with, if you can spread the money around so you have everything (Helmet, jacket, pants, boots, gloves) you'll be ok.
Along the way when you can afford it, upgrade your gear. Wont take too long before you've collected some good stuff.

PS: What part of the shore are you on? If you need any help with picking out gear or the bike/learning give me a yell. Am in Glenfield.

[NZsarge]

To start with, if you can spread the money around so you have everything (Helmet, jacket, pants, boots, gloves) you'll be ok.
Along the way when you can afford it, upgrade your gear. Wont take too long before you've collected some good stuff.

PS: What part of the shore are you on? If you need any help with picking out gear or the bike/learning give me a yell. Am in Glenfield.

Yeah this sounds pretty fair I reckon.... when you get around to upgrading, look at a top of the line helmet first, may i suggest Arai or Shoei is a good place to start. It's all budget dependant ofcourse but i've always felt spending money on a good helmet is never a waste of money. You can get into Arai/Shoei's for around $650-750ish.

[dnos]

damn mornings, i was a bit confused at first cos i thought your title said BOOBS and helmet.
Need coffee.

Anyway that seems like good advice, because while it is important that you can get all the gear you need, a helmet and boots would really be the best place to spend your money.
The good thing is that a helmet and a pair of boots will both last you a long time. Just don't drop your helmet Unless of course your head or feet get bigger - then your buggered.
So if you can afford it there is no reason not to get a real nice helmet - just make sure you get one that fits really well. Figure out your budget and then see what you can get for it.

And then you will be all kitted up for when your nice shiny bike arrives!! Wicked. Enjoy.

[Big Dave]

Motomail will do inteterst free terms on a kit to suit you. Did you ask about that

[Crisis management]

While I advocate getting the best gear you can afford, the size of your budget has to be accounted for.

Sooooooo, I would initially put my cash on the bits that are going to save me the most damage. IMHO, the bits that get hit the hardest are your feet, hands, shoulders and hips, all the bits that hit the ground first. The bits you need to protect most (cause they're most useful) are your hands and feet so get reasonable gloves and boots, next a decent jacket, then a helmet and lastly some trou.
Helmets protect your head but don't often get damaged as they aren't usually the first thing to hit the ground, so buy a reasonable helmet (i'm talking $300 here) and HJC is good value.
Of course if you have a spare couple of grand to spend, then spend it!

The gear you mentioned, HJC and Spool is good quality so that salesman is giving you good advice, use him if you want to.

My recomendation for advice would be go to Motomail in College Hill, I've always been impressed with their service.

[Devil]

Bought my last set of jacket/pants from Motomail. Good service, gave a discount and threw in a pair of gloves as well. Plus it's a comfortable place to go try everything on.

As Big Dave said. Nothing wrong with Interest Free deals as well if you happen to find something you really really like

[Little Miss Trouble]

damn mornings, i was a bit confused at first cos i thought your title said BOOBS and helmet.
Need coffee.

I understand entirely! nobody bothers talking to me in the morning anymore til I've had my first coffee.

[Little Miss Trouble]

PS: What part of the shore are you on? If you need any help with picking out gear or the bike/learning give me a yell. Am in Glenfield.

Im is Sunnynook.
Will definatly give ya a shout if I need help, Haha we may have already crossed pathes, I'm in I.T. too lol

[Little Miss Trouble]

My recomendation for advice would be go to Motomail in College Hill, I've always been impressed with their service.

I was in there yesterday, managed to leave my sunnies behind after trying on helmets too

[avgas]

I buy good helmets as i seem to always hit things head on.
But then again if i had knee braces, leggings and good boots i would have 2 unscar'd legs as well.
But then again, i need my head.

[peasea]

Im is Sunnynook.
Will definatly give ya a shout if I need help, Haha we may have already crossed pathes, I'm in I.T. too lol

We're in Sunnynook too, I dunno, those bikers are everywhere! I can recall reading (might have been in Bike Rider Magazine) an article comparing jackets etc. The bottom line was...Gortex and stuff like that is warm and lightweight etc, but the best protection against road tats was leather. I got a good leather jacket from Motomail and while it's a tad heavy it's good at keeping out the cold and I'm confident that if the excrement hit the air handler I'd be as well off as could be expected. As for helmets, you can get some good deals for a few hundy, upgrade as you can afford it but watch the weight. A heavy helmet is a pain in the neck on long trips. Most modern lids are good but there are differences. Like everything else, shop around and you've done the right thing asking on KB. There is a wealth of information here.

[The Lone Rider]

To start with, if you can spread the money around so you have everything (Helmet, jacket, pants, boots, gloves) you'll be ok.

I agree with that. Well.. if it was summer maybe not the jacket. My summer riding gear is blue denim jeans, a black tshirt, and a blue denim cut off sleeve jacket. But now I'm singing Black Leather.

Oh, and my riding boots are a pair of british combat boots or my steel caps I wear for work.

[Hitcher]

Buy something really cheap, preferably second-hand, that's two sizes too small.

[stelartia]

if you know someone who rides their likely to have some gear you can borrow till you can afford your own.
just hopefully your the same size...!