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CLEAN YOUR LEATHERS LIKE A PRO

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“ON A CRASHED PANEL THE FIRST PORT OF CALL IS TO SAND DOWN THE EXTERIOR.”

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They’re there to save your skin in a literal sense, so it pays to take good care of them, so they can then take good care of you. With this mind we took a set of Dangerous Bruce’s battle-scarred and sweat-ridden RSTs for a winter pamper session down at leather cleaning specialists Drop Your Gear to see if it was possible to revive his stinking, crashed in and generally grotty kit in time for the new season.

The PROcess

Drop Your Gear’s owner and founder Dean Turner-Hennings kindly agreed to give us the lowdown on how the professionals go about turning old, damaged and dodgy suits into much more sparkly, clean and useable examples.

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