motorbike fashion do's and dont's
 

taken from fast bikes magazine june 07-

do not stick stickers all over your bike,

do not wear a sweater or hoodie over your leathers,

do not use a tyre pen on the walls of your tyres,

do not wear a stick on mohicon on your crash helmet,

do not wear your back protector over your leathers,

always fit old sliders to new leathers,

iridium visors were cool in the 90's wear black or silver if you insist,

do not tuck your jeans into your bike boots,

if you've got a yellow bike (hovis) dont wear yellow leathers,

smoke or black screens are ok colours are not,

colour'd engine bolts are a no no, fit stainless or titanium instead,

let a mate scuff your sliders, this is the one bit of bull**** allowed,

dont go out in all brand new kit you'll look a flash tw#t with new sliders,

dont wear sunglasses under a clear visor,

dont fit grips with your bikes name on,

dont fit colour'd tyres to your bike,

race rep helmets are cool but the whole race rep kit isnt.

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how many of you fall foul to the no no's in todays bike fashion.

personally i wear a crescent Suzuki fleece over my leather jacket in winter
and i wear sunglasses in my lid in summer.:)

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I wear a Gap fleece (tsk - I shop in chain stores) over my leathers in winter and sunnies under my clear visor:D

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tut tut tut Ed:thumbdown: you'll have the fashion police after you:)

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i did have a mohicon but some one stole it i was not happy:smt027

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perhaps best stolen ay wideboy:)

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Woohoo i've not done any of those :cool:

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I wear sun glasses under my clear visor.

Sue me!

They don't yet make perscription visors down Vision Express.

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i have you know pink suits me :---)

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+1

but i am sub zero on the cool wall

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I'm innocent on all counts now but did have black and yellow leathers for when I was on the SV.

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i can add one more of my own to that list-

do not use fake carbon stickon stuff.

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ummmm............ dam im pretty much a fashion reject

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guilty as charged....crimes to sunglasses with clear visors early morning and evening as the sun comes up/goes down!!!

crimes to add.....

wearing addidas trackies,mckenzie hoodies and trainers when riding

riding a ped? (with or without L plates)

coloured headlight covers (black or smoke acceptable?!?!?)

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i had yellow and black leathers to go with my bike at the time (yellow curvy)but im allright now ,,its black all the way baby (except my helmet ,multi coloured ):cool:

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I wear the jumper over my leathers (as i can't fit it under lol and i'm a wuss when it comes to the cold).

I stopped wearing sunnies under my clear visor when i got my black visor.

Other than that i'm not a bad bike fasion reject lol

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None.............. although i have yellow black & white leathers?

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no mention of rim tape? ;-)

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some good extra's there by wooly, dont know what to think about rim tape?
some looks good then some looks naff.

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I got one...

Just because you ride a naked bike...

Doesn't mean you go naked too!

:D

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rim tape is not a crime?!?!?

i put red rim tape on me red bike, it looks nice and subtle, where as if i'd done it in day glo yellow maybe a crime?!?!? bit of a split decision on this maybe?

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Ha Ha I am not guilty of any apart from this one, my Suzuki top yoke protector, tank cap cover and tank protector....all fake carbon, looks good though IMHO

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I think I've finally found somewhere that I'm fashionable! :clown:

My one piece leathers have small yellow flashes on them but the rest of my gear is all black :cool:

What about a hoody under leathers with the hood flapping out? :smt048

I do have some fake carbon fibre though (top yoke protector and petrol cap cover) :oops:

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So 1 don't and 2 do's mistakes then, plus I have a fake carbon SV tank protector

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do not stick stickers all over your bike,

do not wear a sweater or hoodie over your leathers,

smoke or black screens are ok colours are not,
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guilty of the above lol

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Guilty - of the sunnies

In mittigation mila'd tis only so that I can see where I is goin!

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Tyre pen here... Are FB now the arbiters of taste? :) On their list of "DOs" does it say "Fit trackday tyres to your commuter" and "Never ride in the rain"?

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Sunny's under my clear visor, not got around to getting a tinted visor yet!!!

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Lucky for me, I'm too poor to buy anything flashy that makes you look like some sort of racer boy. Actually I'd still be safe even if I did have more cash.

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well except maybe for some fake carbon fiber accents

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I'm too cool for school.

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:thumbsup: Only because he didn't take any spares to silverstone and it just so happened i was in the right place at the right time :oops:

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I've not done any of those. Worst I've done is worn sunglasses with an open face lid (still don't reckon this is anywhere near as bad as under a full face one's visor). I've also tucked my denim jeans inside my boots.

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For the ultimate in how to be cool please see Treacle. . . . . . . . . or as he is more commonly know, the Oracale Of Cool

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Yep, they ran out of space for the article. the next one was 'Don't be Hovis", but the editor decided it was too obvious to most of the population :clown:

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Nuts to 'em. I like hiding leather's under a sweatshirt, I think my gold iridium rocks & sunglasses under a clear Visor are easier to take off when it gets dark.
:cool:

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dont go out in all brand new kit you'll look a flash tw#t with new sliders,

I see, and what exactly am I suppose to do? Hang the leathers in the garage for few years to mature? :confused:

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I'd like to see that sometime. I think rim tape can look good, but I had doubts about doing it to a red bike.

As for crimes - I wear my boots over my leathers - so I think that makes me a fashion criminal. Not sure I could wear them the otherway round even if I wanted to.

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Not guilty of any of those... I mus be a fashion god!

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you'll have to arrange to ty up with me sometime as you're only down the road to see what it looks like, i dont think it looks bad at all,but each to their own......


as for leathers over the boots.....check out half the field at various GP/BSB/WSB rounds, i've noticed a few of them do this, so could be cool???