Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

All That Gear

I wore a corduroy jacket and jeans and those suede desert boots that we all wore. I feel sure I had a helmet and sunglasses and some sort of gloves, but I don’t recall anything about them.

I rode in jeans for years. Would’ve called them Levis. I wore a succession of open-face Bell helmets, 500TXes and Magnums, then full coverage helmets, a Simpson, a Shoei, a couple of flip-front BMW helmets and, more recently, Arais and flip-front Nolans.

For the last 20 years, more or less, I’ve worn armoured jackets and pants. Almost all of them have

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