Ain't No Pillion

I was looking for motorcycle pants the other day and saw the Rev’It Ultimate Pants on closeout at RevZilla. These are $350 pants on closeout for $220, and by all accounts they’re great pants. They have two separate removable liners: a rain liner and a thermal liner. The abrasion resistance is good, and the armor [...]

Today I got my Joe Rocket Meteor 6.0 jacket. Keep in mind that this is my first motorcycle jacket, so I don’t exactly have a basis for comparison, but my first impressions are definitely favorable! Venting The road will show if it’s really effective, but the Joe Rocket 6.0 Meteor Jacket has a couple of [...]

I was poking around on eBay on Saturday and I saw a Joe Rocket Meteor 6.0 jacket in a size that should fit me – for roughly a quarter of MSRP. I tried on a Joe Rocket jacket a week or two ago in the same size, and it was fine, so I’m hoping this [...]

I’ve been making mental lists about what I need and how much the expenses are going to run, and I figured I might be able to stop thinking about it so much if I write it all down. So. Here’s a list of things I’m trying to budget for, that I, or the bike, will [...]

So of course, now that I’ve decided to do this thing, I was up half the night last night obsessing about it. The gear issue is one that I’m not going to rest easy until I solve. I hate having things pending, if I can help it – I want to get gear *now* so [...]