One of the big selling points of the meshie I bought is the leather that its got on the shoulders and forearms for a little extra protection.

Helmet

Scorpion EXO 400 Tsnuami
Suomy Ventura

Jackets

Shift M1 Leather Jacket
Cortech FSX Textile

Gloves

Shift Barrier Gloves
ICON Tarmac V.3 Gloves.

Getting Denim Riding Pants Over the Winter and Looking for a Two peice Leather Suit Over the Winter as well. And Some Boots

Keep an eye on the WERA forum...insane deals on suits over there.

Thanks Buddy :)

Yeah, mine does too, it's actually one of the nicest mesh jackets I've ever seen. It's a Cortech GX-Air.

I have the Cortech FSX and I wear that thing More than My leather...I Love it.

I used to think Cortech was kinda entry level crap, but I bought a pair of boots from a friend of mine, and he had a GX-Air which he sold me for $50. I could wear that thing 12 months a year, and it offers amazing protection. It's the best mesh jacket I've ever seen, and I have worked in a couple different shops and owned four or five different mesh jackets.

I did as well until I tried on a buddies FSX then I went out and bought one...Lol

I really Like there Gear.

Cortech is a lower price than the competition, but their quality is certainly top notch. And while they may not have the best style, their comfort and protection is right up there with high end gear. My GX sport is a very nice jacket for the price and it came standard with CE armor and double back padding (a removable pad inside the jacket and non removable padding sewn right into the outer shell). 360 and 8 in zipper included. I feel safe whenever I have it on and never fear going down and getting rashed. I did however purchase a high end leather jacket recently. :idk: You can never have to much gear and can always use a spare jacket.

[QUOTE=neebelung;426]So now that we know what we all pine for, what do you already have? What items do you love, and which ones do you regret buying?

Jacket - Leather: Teknic Armored
Jacket - Textile: Olympia Armored
Jacket - Mesh:
Pants - Leather:
Pants - Textile: Tourmaster Vantage w/ zip out insulated liner armored in knees and hips
Pants - Mesh:
Pants - Denim/Kevlar: three pair Sliders kevlar jeans
Helmet: one yellow HJC CL-12 , one green HJC CL-14
Gloves - Leather: Olympia Terminator & ICON Super Duty
Gloves - Mesh:
Gloves - Weather/Winter: Olympia Gore-Tex all weather & a pair of leather cheapo's
Boots:8" all leather lace up work boots & Alpine Star S-MX5
One-piece suit - Leather:
Two-piece suit - Leather:
One-piece suit - Touring/Textile:
Two-piece suit - Touring/Textile:
Armour (i.e. Icon, Bohn, Alpinestars):

I got a killer deal on my Teknic jacket, I really like that and the Olympia is very comfortable for warmer weather. For cold weather I wear the liner out of the Olmpia jacket with the linered Teknic jacket.

Both the Terminators and super dutys are comfortable but I'd pick the terminators first.

The Tourmaster insulated pants are very comfortable and easy to put on even over my big feet ( with my riding boots 11-1/2 EEEE )

The only thing so far which wasn't money well spent was my cheapo leather thinsulate gloves. They're good to 40* but were also only $20 so no big loss.

Jeff

I stopped at Blackman Cycle today and they were running a sale on all in stock merchandise, anywhere from 10%-50% off.

They had about 15 pair of Alpine Star boots in the 50% off area and one pair in my size.

I purchased $109.95 Ridge for $54.98 :dthumb:

Jeff

Tis the season for great deals on gear.:dthumb:

Finally got a chance to wear the Ridge boots today when I rode to work. The short boot ( 8" )pressed against my shin and was extremely uncomfortable.

I took them back to Blackmans and upgraded to AlpineStar S-MX5 for an additional $47 :dthumb:

These come up higher and are more plyable.

Jeff

helmets: Arai, Shark, HJC, dead shoeis
jackets: Icon team terc textile, Fieldsheer mesh,Joe rocket mesh, Tecknic perf. chicane leather
Pants: Dainese leather pants, tecknic leather pants, Joe rocket textile
Leathers: a 2 piece tecknic and a 1 piece power ranger suit
Boots: Icon super duty's and Sidi's
gloves: Icon pursuits, Joe rocket trixie? leather gloves, and alpinestars GP
also an Icon vest for my squidish days

My gear's old for various reasons:

Jacket - Leather: Teknic Chicane (from 2000)
Jacket - Mesh: Fieldsheer Mach 4
Helmet: Shoei RF800
Gloves - Leather: Teknic... somethings. Lightweight, good feel. Icon... something elses. A little thicker, decent padding, shit construction.
Boots: Icon Superduty. Falling apart, more garbage (never again with Icon)

Ended up tossing my RX7RR Colin Edwards rep when the trim pieces fell off, and gave my Icon Mainframe away because I hated it. Also gave away some Icon TiMax gloves to my friend because I wasn't too thrilled with them, just lost my bike, and he had absolutely no gear except a helmet.

Next bike gets a mandatory upgrade in my gear.

ya know, if the trim fell off, you could have sent it to Arai, and they would have fixed it for you, free of charge.

The helmet was also from '99. As much as I loved that thing, replacing the trim pieces on a '99 helmet in 2007 only solves the superficial stuff. The helmet served me well for almost a decade. I couldn't have asked for more.


Ok, maybe I could have asked for the helmet to not be $600. Half that woulda been nice.

My gear is:

Helmet KBC freeze. Modular
Jacket A/star Textile all season with removable liner
Pants Icon Recon Black
Boots Icon Field Armor
Gloves A/star

Jacket - Leather: Icon Moto
Jacket - Textile: Cortech and Frank Thomas
Jacket - Mesh:Joe Rocket (2)
Pants - Leather:Joe Rocket
Pants - Textile:AlpineStar & Cortech
Pants - Mesh:Joe Rocket
Pants - Denim/Kevlar:Joe Rocket
Helmet:KBC Modular, HJC Half, Shoei and soon to be a Shark Karma
Gloves - Leather:Yamaha
Gloves - Mesh:Joe Rocket
Gloves - Weather/Winter:Cortech thermal and a pair of heated
Boots:AlpineStar SMX and Stella Torre
Two-piece suit - Leather: Joe Rocket (for race track)

I guess I like Joe Rocket gear?? :idk:
My faves at the moment are my New women's mesh JR jacket, Joe Rocket jeans (Thanks Nee), Shark helmet,Joe Rocket gloves and my AS Stella Torre boots.

too much for a gear closet, more like a gear room

1 Joe Rocket 2 piece leathers
1 AGV 2 piece leathers
1 rain suit
1 teknic leather jacket
1 joe rocket textile jacket
1 first gear textile jacket
2 pairs of boots, Alpinestars supertech, and alpinestars smx plus
3 pairs of gloves, 2-alpinestars, 1 joe rocket
10 Helmets, yeah 10, Shoei x-11, shoei rf 800, shoei rf 1000, AGV corser replica, agv joker, 2 HJC, 1 fulmer, 1 cirrus and another agv

Jackets: Joe Rocket Alter Ego, Joe Rocket Meteor, First Gear Mesh Tex
Pants: Joe Rocket Alter Ego (everything else I had is worn out)
Gloves: Various Joe Rocket (several pairs of Blaster 2.0)
Helmets: HJC CL-MAX, HJC CS-12 (all that I have left there too)
Boots: generic steel toed boots.

Helmet: Arai Corsair CEII replica
Jackets: BMW venting machine- summer
Vansons ??- fall/spring
Dainese Univers- winter (replacing this winter)
Gloves: alpinestars SMX4
Boots: Sidi
Suit: Barnacle Bills

2-piece custom leathers from Barnacle Bill
Scopion exo-700 helmet
Tourmaster Mesh jacket
Tourmaster Transition "winter" textile jacket
Joe Rocket Mesh pants
Cortech textile pants
Vanson leather pants
Joe rocket trixie pants
Fieldsheer leather jacket
Cortech Scarab gloves
Tourmaster winter leather gloves
Alpinestar SMX-3 boots
Sidi Violet boots
Dianese half size backprotector
Dianese Wave backprotector

I know I'm forgeting something

Jacket - Leather: Alpinestars 2 pc full suit (in power ranger red)
Jacket - Textile: Joe Rocket Ballistic
Jacket - Mesh: Tourmaster
Pants - Textile: Joe Rocket Balistic
Pants - Mesh: Tour Master

Helmet: Shoei 900, Shoe 1000
Gloves - Leather: Alpinestars GP-Pro, GP Plus
Boots: Sidi
Armour (i.e. Icon, Bohn, Alpinestars): Icon Back Protector

Helmet: Shoei, AGV, Z1R, and a few more old ones
Jackets: FieldSheer Leather, Nitro mesh
Gloves: Joe Rocket, and a couple of cool weather pairs
Boots: Gaerne & Kushitani
Suit: (2) Syed custom one piece suits
Back Prot: Dainese

My latest acquisitions:
AGV Vi-Tech gloves,
Sidi Typhoon Boots,
Shoei RF-1000 Spectra Shield

Jacket - Leather: First Gear - It's very heavy and hot...but very cheap
Jacket - Textile: n/a
Jacket - Mesh: Joe Rocket Mesh, great super hot jacket, like the perf'd leather on the shoulders and sleeves
Pants - Textile: JR Alter Ego pants. Great overpant, well ventilated and durable
Helmet: HJC - Loud and hot. Shark RSR2 - great ventilation, good anti-fog, visor can be tough to raise
Gloves - Leather: First Gear - decent gloves, minimal hard protection
Gloves - Mesh: Cortech Accelerator - perf'ed gloves with armour on knuckles and fingers, very good glove
Gloves - Weather/Winter: none worth mentioning
Boots: Diadora sport touring - great for day trips when your off the bike some. AGV Sport Boots - review to come
Two-piece suit - Leather: A* Octane

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Noice glad it fit

Jacket - Leather: Kawasaki think it's made by Teknic
Jacket - Textile: Fieldsheer, MotoGP
Jacket - Mesh: Joe Rocket
Pants - Textile: Joe Rocket
Helmet: 2 HJC 1 Shoei
Gloves - Leather: Teknic, MotoGP, Icon
Boots: A*
One-piece suit - Leather: AGV
Armour (i.e. Icon, Bohn, Alpinestars):661 spine protector

Here is what I have:

Helmets: Shoei X-11, Shoei RF-1000
Suit, Leather, One Piece: RS Taichi EVO Viper
Suit, Leather, Two Piece: Joe Rocket Highside
Jacket, Leather: Dianese Laguna Seca
Gloves: Held Phantoms, 2 Pairs of Teknics
Boots, Racing: TCX Competizione RS, Oxtar Evo TCS
Boots, Casual Riding: Icon Super Duty
Back Protector: Knox Contour
Chest Protector: Knox