Bike Gear - Work Clothes - Meetings

[Aaron_newrider]

Hey All,

Well I work corporate, at the moment use my Sales Managers car to get to meetings. Hard to organise and frustrating.

My Mission - to get to a meeting on my bike, wearing full gear, then walk in the meeting with nothing but my keys and work clothes.

1) Does anyone know any leather pants that have small enough knee sliders that will fit under work pants? (Quazi/1tonne you think yours will?)

2)Buy one of these (http://www.millets.co.uk/rucksacks/r...ct/090469.html)

3) Put my work shoes in my backpack, along with my suit jacket.

4) Get to the meeting, in the carpark/carpark 20sec drive down the road, put helmet/gloves/boots/jacket into the bag,put on my work shoes and jacket.

5) Put bag into this mesh wire thing (see above) and padlock to my bike for security both for my bike and the gear.

What do you guys think? Any idea where I could get the mesh wire thing?
Think someone would still try steal the bag? Would be in a different place each time so no planned thefts.

Cheers!

aaron

[hospitalfood]

hard luggage on a tourer would be the ultimate.
any hard luggage would do the job of holding a change.

when i was working in the city i just used my bike jacket over tidy dress

[Aaron_newrider]

hard luggage on a tourer would be the ultimate.
any hard luggage would do the job of holding a change.

when i was working in the city i just used my bike jacket over tidy dress

Buying a hyosung GT250R so hard luggage not an option lol. It won't just be in the city all over auckland and as far as Hamilton.

Cheers though.

Aaron

[xwhatsit]

Buying a hyosung GT250R so hard luggage not an option lol. It won't just be in the city all over auckland and as far as Hamilton.

You can get lockable top-boxes. There's quite a few models big enough to steal away a helmet inside; gloves etc. inside the helmet of course. Dunno about boots? Mebbe drill through the top of the toe sliders so you can fit a thin steel cable through and lock it to your bike. Of course, Jim2 will tell you some degenerate will come along and piss or take a shit in your boots, but I'm not sure Aucklanders (mebbe Hamiltonians) do that kind of thing.

[SPP]

A luggage rack and top box would be the ticket. I think Ventura does one for your Hyo or try korider.com

You could perhaps carry a pack and leave it with the receptionist, might even lift your office cred

Don't know about using sliders under your trou though, could get ugly.

[p.dath]

Ditch the work jacket and just wear a shirt and tie. Cordura can be warn over the top. I got leather boots that I also wear during the day. Not as dressy as proper dress shoes, but hey, I think of it as a fashion statement. When I arrive at clients I just take the Cordura off at reception and carry it with me, and then usually leave it in the corner of the room where I am having the meeting.

[Luckylegs]

...Does anyone know any leather pants that have small enough knee sliders that will fit under work pants? (Quazi/1tonne you think yours will?)...

Knee sliders are generally removable (attached with Velcro), so this shouldnt be a problem.

I was gonna suggest that sitting around in leather pants under your work pants would be awful, except it occured to me theres actually nothing more "comfy" than a pair of nice fiting leather pants. I have been known to sit for up to an hour in the morning before I go and get changed into something more work friendly (Corporate Office Attire)... But I digress, as you were.

[Zapf]

or buy a set of nice BMW leathers. They look quite respectable.

And clients would be hard pressed to skoff at BMW gear would they.

[pritch]

Knee sliders at the office? That seems a bit over the top.

I wear a riding jacket of one sort or another over the office attire.
Just wear normal trousers.

If the weather is really crap I wear bike boots and change into shoes at work.
I also have dress boots that will do a turn if the weathers OK...

This doesn't quite meet the requirements of ATGATT but you'd need a BMW K1200LT or something similar to do that.

[MaxCannon]

Why do you need Knee sliders for riding on the road ?

[1tonne]

Hey All,

1) Does anyone know any leather pants that have small enough knee sliders that will fit under work pants? (Quazi/1tonne you think yours will?)
aaron

Hi Aaron.

All our knee sliders are removable. If you did not want to remove them, there is a good chance they would fit under your pants but they would be noticable. (best to remove them).
Check out
http://www.1tonne.co.nz/index.php?pa...=&categoryid=3
http://www.1tonne.co.nz/index.php?pa...=&categoryid=3
Cheers
Nathan

[Reido]

wear work pants under bike pants?? then ditch it all into a bag and lock to bike..

or just take it all into the meeting with you and chuck it in the corner.. just remember to turn up late, be obnoxious and loud, and dont apologise

[Aaron_newrider]

Why do you need Knee sliders for riding on the road ?

Why not? When I fall off, and hit my knee on the ground, I would like to have them. If you weren't wearing them and screwed your knee... you would be thinking "why didnt i wear sliders...."

[justsomeguy]

Drive.

If you're in sales first impressions are very important.

[justsomeguy]

Why not? When I fall off, and hit my knee on the ground, I would like to have them. If you weren't wearing them and screwed your knee... you would be thinking "why didnt i wear sliders...."

Hehehe - Hence "newrider" huh?

Knee sliders are not for crash protection. They're there to allow you to measure your lean angle and slabilise your bike in a higher speed corner should it start sliding.