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- KBC lid
- hand-me-down 20yo Walden Miller leather jacket (still good!)
- Draggins
- POS Joe Rocket gloves (I will never recommend Joe Rocket!)
- Daytona boots

I think that's about it. Admittedly did only start a couple of years back.

Bieffe helmet
Levi red tabs
Joggers
And usually my dad or brothers jacket....(too big of course)

Excluding the early years of mot x stuff.
Arai lid with press stud visor, followed by an Arai Wes Cooley replica.
Spyder boots
grab on gloves with metal studs in the palms
Waxed cotton jacket followed by a walden miller TT jacket.
Jeans...

I still have the helmets....

wow....when i started i had...

desert boots (or is it dessert??...i didnt eat em..)

quicksilver snow type jacket over a jumper

$100 AGV lid

Gloves?? what were they?? (later got $60 rivet winter gloves)

umm i didnt like jeans..so trackie's, shorts, or cargo's


and that was us doin maquarie pass runs... not cafe racing...

Ahhh this brings back memories.Only you older types will remember some of this stuff.Helmet,an Arai with press stud visor,it was a pain at traffic lights as the visor didnt swing open.Jacket was a mars leather,they are still around and its seems their styling hasnt changed much,lol.
Gloves where the old red and black fur lined dents,they were the gun glove to have in those days,although they were that thick you had ne feel at all in them.Boots,the old fur lined rossies,another classic.
For touring i had this ex army tank suit,it was warm,reasonably waterproof but weighed a friggen ton,and my 1st road bike was a kawasaki S2.For those that are too young to know,it was a two stroke 350 3 cylinder screamer,son of a mach 3.

Jeezass..... It's hard remembering the 70's.

Shoei Helmet .. bought it used and it looked it .. no safetycrats in the 70s

Brando style leather jacket. .. also pre-owned

Leather gaunlet gloves .. no particular brand

Jeans .. whatever pair was semi - clean

Boots .. RAAF Firies type or the zip up GP boots. (I got em for nuthin)

Used to wear flying gloves inside the leather gloves, trackie dacs under the jeans and a Bulldogs scarf wrapped around the face and tucked into the brando jacket in winter.

I got caught out in Traralgon one winters night and had to nick a newspaper to line my jacket and the front of my jeans to keep off the hypothermia......

AGV Quasor lid (too big but free with bike)
AGV Gloves (also free with bike)
Brando leather jacket (NO armour, better than nothing)
Rivet leather pants $80 secondhand meant for someone much shorter and smaller than me, always a hit with the ladies.
Steel cap boots issued by work.

That was it, thankfully i waited till i had better safety gear before i started crashing bikes.

Shoei XR1000 Helmet - Gloss Black + TINTED visor
DriRider Nordic 4 Jacket
Draggin Jeans
Alpine Star boots
Rjay Leather gloves

varden wrote:.

That was it, thankfully i waited till i had better safety gear before i started crashing bikes.

yea..im glad i took that approach too...

mind u..back 10 years ago, i didnt give a bugger what i wore...

circa 1977, John Frith boots, Levis jeans, levi denim jacket with the sleeves cut off, badges sewn on by me (Oh crap another one's flown off), a bell open face with the liner and polystyrene foam pulled out, I found the helmet at the dump and washed it then painted it with a brush and some black auto body schutz, that stuff is the sticky black crap they used to paint your boot and wheel wells with to protect it, still remember the bike too, a GT550 Waterbottle, totally stuffed suspension, smoke pissing out the back, oil leaks and I bought it for $175 from magnum motorcycles on Main North road Adelaide, came with rego too, man I was a proud 16 year old biker in those days, just grinning from ear to ear.
Les

jeans & jumper

mx gloves

and my old bieffe karting helmet from when i was younger

sandshoes

WAT A CLOWN

only started riding road just over 2 years ago and i still have this gear (although i have retired the jacket to crappy running around town duties and the gloves are dead)

Rjays leather jacket (looks quite second hand lol)
Arai RX7RR4 Doohan replica (fuck yeah, still in good cond has had alot of use tho, around 30+ thousand k's )
Rjays gloves (they fell to pieces after about 15,000k's of use)
umm DC shoe co , skate shoes lol
and Jeans

that about rounds it out

Found this in my old photos.Classic late 70's riding gear.
Flying boots,black jeans,mars jacket and the optional cut off sheepskin.
Note the classic 70's hair style also.

rocketrod wrote:Found this in my old photos.Classic late 70's riding gear.
Flying boots,black jeans,mars jacket and the optional cut off sheepskin.
Note the classic 70's hair style also.

ohhhh ohhhh i got this whole "stone" kinda feeling.....

Yeah prolly was at the time,lol.