Used Leathers

Looking for sub $200 leathers, i dont particularly care what it looks
like, as long as it fits and is cumfy. No piss-stains is a bonus.

1piece, 2piece, jacket/pants only.

Are there any retailers that specialise in cheap used leathers? or am i
best off asking around for individuals getting new suits.

Is it advisable to buy used boots? I think i'll most likely get used
jacket/pants/gloves, new boots, new helmet.

Pants with an inbuilt testicle protector would be fantastic for all those
offers of kicks in the nuts. but i'll take all the threefiddy's you care
to throw my way.

Regards,
Derek

 

you just want to get rid of it cos we said you didn't look sexy in it


anywho, like Zebee said "every pawnshop you can phone"
I visit crimeconvertors (cashconvertors) a bit just for a looksee and
I picked up a pair of Dririder winter gloves for $22, quite common to
have jackets and pants around the $150 mark each.

as for Boots, army disposals GP boots I heard are a good cheap way for
protecting the feet.



--

MH

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lame duck who leeches on society
leeching on taxpayers and leeching on society
Maggot
you useless piece of shit
you lazy fucker
leech!
dull dumdrop
bludger
you dirty piece of scum
Moron

 

In aus.motorcycles on Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:28:23 +1000

heh, says the man who was waxing lyrical about how much *more* impact
damage he might have sustained if he hadn't had armour.

If it's enough of a ssmash to cut your toes off, it's enough of a smash
to pulverise them. Modern surgeons are a lot better at re-attachment
than trying to rebuild jelly-with-bone-bits.

According to the Cambridge research, what you want is a very solid sole
that extends out past all of your foot, to protect against crush, a solid
toecap to protect against impact and abrasion, and padding or even
better armour plus padding on shin and ankle. But the solid inflexible
sole and solid toecap seemed to be the most important.


Zebee

 

Add to that a second exception... one of the guys who works/worked at MCA in
Parramatta... heard that one from far too many and varied sources for it to
be untrue, and the guy does kinda walk funny...

 

Funnier than he would have walked of his foot had been whached
that hard _without_ the steel caps?

I'm still dubious...

big

 

Um - a third exception - when I was a 4th year med student working on an A&E
ward (observation only, naturally) I saw a bloke present with damaged toes
after coming off a bike (an old Triumph I believe). His boots had not
severed his toes, but the cap had bent far enough back to have broken some
of his toe bones (I believe oblique or comminuted fractures to the distal
end of 3 of his proximal phalanges). I don't know what happened to him, he
was wheeled off to surgery pretty fast (he had other injuries). From what I
saw, the steel-caps were the primary cause of these particular injuries, his
feet were otherwise OK. (The rest of him was not in great shape though).

Most well designed motorcycle boots seem to have a reinforced sole to
prevent flexion, and a reinforced area for the toes to prevent
hyperextension. Steel capped boots are designed to protect toes from things
being dropped on them - common on a building site but not on a motorcycle.

My two cents worth.

Manning

 

Hmm, that didn't take long to get pounced on, did it...

Disagree utterly and completely. Workboots protect against concentrated
impact from above and around the foot; removalist dropping washing machine,
demolition worker mistiming a sledgehammer swing, that sort of thing... no
workboot I've ever seen has much in the way of protection against even
gradual overflexion of the toes, which is exactly what would cause the
toecap to pivot back, down and through your foot like pacman. The only way
to achieve that would be to immobilise the sole of the boot, and that's not
an option for a piece of footwear designed to be worn by people who work on
their feet.

Mhm... and a hell of a clean slice it would be with a pair of blunt-edged
domes of steel sheet doing the cutting.

Ultimately, the sort of scenario I envisage is, say, you hitting the deck
and the bike rolling onto your foot, or you slide into a ditch and drive
your foot through a gap between a pair of rocks, which can occur on a longer
timescale than that of tearing flesh and snapping bone. If you're wearing
something solid, but distortible (bleah; how's that for a made-up word?),
like Hi-Tec's Magnum or even just military boots, the boot will follow your
foot as it's bent into an unnatural position and it will shield from any
pinpoint stresses, while a workboot would get bent into exactly the shape
which will bring the rear edge of the toecap down on top of your
metatarsals, and, while it may not actually cut anything off, it will create
exactly the sort of stress localisation which breaks bones and whatnot.

That's why I consider steel toecaps to be a bad idea...

 

Do you know what foot lb rating and impact ratings of the boots were?

Hammo

 

Never mind the steel toecaps, most work boots slip on, and slip off. If your
foot is going to be crushed in an accident enough for a steelcap to damage it,
chances are it's going to be pretty fucked up no matter what you're wearing,
but you're going to be better of if the boot is still on your foot, regardless
what it's caps are made of.

Nev..

 

Nah, I never looked at the boots, only the x-rays. I only knew what kind of
boots they were because I overheard what the radio techs and the attending
said. (In 4th year you do a lot of peering over shoulders and trying to
overhear conversations.)

Manning

 

You have overlooked the fact that workboots means steel capped AND non
steel capped boots , I didn't specifically mention anything about
steelcaps.

BTW , steel caps are good for kicking in car doors to teach some idiots
in cars a few road manners.

 

Must disagree... happened to be walking along the pits at Bathurst back in
'98 or whenever it was they tried to
start it up again, and out the front of one was a pair of blue\white
Alpinestars near new for $75... and they fitted; not with heavy socks but so
what.
Ended up buying my TLR the same colour so that it matched my boots...
Flash Jack (Rockit)

 

The claimed Urban Legend isnt that a steel capped boot will cut your
toes off. Its design and some elementary physics/logic shows pretty
well that thats possible. But that steel cap boots will somehome cut
yer toes off when if you didnt wear them you would be better off..

paulh

 

I reckon steelcaps suck for riding in anyway - they make your foot a heap taller
over the toes and stuff up your ability to change gears properly (it's like sex
with a condom - you can't feel what you're doing properly <grin>)

JL

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sat, 4 Oct 2003 09:54:55 +1000

I have the Bike! reporty on boots, but as it is very much copyright I'm
not putting it up on the net... I'll locate it and show you next time
you manage to make it over :0

Zebee

 

My gearlever actually comes in behind my steel caps, so I can still feel the
lever fine.
--
Al

"Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon. "

Remove *ME* before replying

 

On 3/10/03 10:13 PM, in article

Only two toes. That¹s not bad.

Just need to see how many toes come off with out steel-caps......

Hammo

 

But...but...if you kicked a car door while wearing steelcapped boots,you'd
cut your toes off!


Hangin' Five Pat

 

"John Littler" wrote

Never noticed.

Theo

 

"Hamish Alker-Jones" wrote

Five?

Theo