Finally reached that stage in life where I can get back on a bike again without either feeling guilty or having to remove my brain and put it in my back pocket.
I have to say that choosing a mount was the easy part....choosing the skin protection however was bloody hard! There is SO much stuff to choose from. I felt like Imelda Marcos trying to select which shoes to wear !
Thanks to this forum I think I made a reasonably informed choice.
I settled on sort of 2 piece leathers from Lifestyle imports. They have a new jacket style in that is really nice...good fit, supple, well made and fits us forty somethings where the six pack stomach has evolved! Their gloves were a no go but the boots were good. Helmet was next up and after a lot of head scratching and tooing and froing I settled on a Caberg Rhyno flip up. The SHARP site gave it a 5 star rating. A fully featured helmet at an excellent price and not too heavy. A set of Strada Testa Corsa gloves finishes it all off.
All going well I should be astride a RF900 before the weekend is out. A toss up between that and a newer GSX750F. The RF is a lot of bike for the $$$$$$.
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! congrats on finding the right gear, its all about looking around really isnt it , and making sure its the right one for you.. im still after my jacket, except all the jackets i want arent in my price range, unfortunately at the moment, i only have $200 to spend on a leather jacket with armor, so i will see how i get on.
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