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From: klmartin@watmath.UUCP (K.L. Martin, Hardware)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Informal Survey on Leather
Message-ID: <14472@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-May-85 10:49:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 15 10:49:26 1985
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I am pleased to say that I have survived for many years on good luck and
sweet leather.  My days of dirt riding in the northland of Quebec convinced
me of one thing ( !!!!! BE PROTECTED !!!!!! ).  Leather on more than one
occasion has literally saved my butt.  I have to admit however that I break
my own rules by zipping out to the grocery store with only my jacket on, or
to work (aprox 5 min. drive) but whenever I am out on the open roads you
will find me glued to them leathers.
  I have mellowed through the years and now I do a lot of touring, I have
an old 1973 bmwr75/5 that I chug arround on.  My wife and I chose not to 
wear black leather as of the reputation it has gotten in the area.  The 
locals automatically assume anyone wearing black is out of an old Clint
Eastwood movie about to pillage their town and put flouride in the water.
We found a nice burgandy leather that fits the bill, now I no longer get
stared at when entering restaurants or given funny looks if we happen to 
stop at a motel for the night (mainly to have a shower).
  With reguard to customized helmets they were all the rage in Quebec about 
8 years ago with deer, moose, elk and car horns implanted, welded and 
otherwise affixed to the beanie, but the best one I saw was a detailed 
painting of a fantasy landscape.  It ran arround the bottom of the helmet 
about 2" high, in that two inches were castles, towns and farms the 
rest of the helmet was a clouded sky.