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    Tried Out

    Sep 15, 2018 4 minutes

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     What’s the best way to test out products? Abuse them of course! And our man Boothy is pretty damn good at that. He managed two weeks at the Isle of Man TT on his trusty old 2012 ZX10-R without one crash, but as soon as he got to Cadwell Park, he couldn’t handle the pressure and threw himself over the ‘bars over The Mountain within just a couple of laps. Here’s what our crash test dummy made of some of the kit he was using at the time…

    HELD CUSTOM FULL SPEED RACE SUIT

    TESTED BY: Boothy

    MILES: 7,000

    TIME: 2 years

    PRICE: £2,100

    WEB: www.held-uk.co.uk

    Never in my life had I ever done so many miles in a set of leathers without crashing. Normal

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