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echoing Db, my gloves and textiles are halvarssons and have been down the road and not a mark.

Dianese leathers aint good in an off, my old boss came off a gpz 9 about 6 yr ago and they disintergrated.

The only leather ive seen multiple off were berlins race leathers (a/stars) with road rash and 1 small hole in the elbow after 3 big offs

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oh yeah forgot about the A* boots. I have the proper naff looking 'Roam' and 'Ridge II' boots, they say 'water resistant' but flipping heck they pretty much keep a tidal wave out. I've used and abused the Roam ones for a few years now, and they are like a lovely pair of dry slippers. Shame they aren't readily available anymore, as they are really cheap by a lot of folks standards for good quality, reliably waterproof boots.

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I have a Halvarsson leather jacket for the summer, and also some winter gloves of theirs, stumbled across them in a local bike shop - best gear I've ever bought.

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Me too. Don't buy a lot of gear, but their gloves are great.

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I have got a full set of FT leathers. I prefer to use textiles, but the leathers have always been fine for me.

No I don't like dags, and I don't live in a caravan.

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A shame for jobs lost (can't comment on the management!!)- but I'll not bat an eyelid re Frank Thomas kit.

First pair of gloves were FT- fell apart in 3 months. J&S swapped them, even thought they'd normally send them back to get checked first. Only thing I liked with those gloves were the roo-leather palms. Very grippy indeed.

Didn't try any of their other stuff though- was just put off by something simple like, oh....bad stitching? :D

Motrax- well, design theft aside, my local Honda dealer (where I go for accessories so I can avoid J&S) fell out with their rep a couple of years ago. Their shelves are full of Oxford stuff now.

I did get a Motrax bike cover- it's pretty good. Can't really comment on their other stuff. I did used to use Whizzo Wheel cleaner though (Yoshimoto brand- all but disappeared some time ago, I think was owned by Motrax)- that stuff was great. I've since discovered GT85 though- so no biggie!!

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Does this mean BKS will be going down too? as FT own BKS now.

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Just read it, D'oh.

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Yay!! :smt041

and

Boo!! :toss:

So I am now very low down the list of people wanting dollar...

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I heard it was all down to you Davie ;) you single handidly brough them to their knee... they simply couldn't afford to pay you off so went bust...

(or I could have just completely made that up)