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Farkles, Gear & Accessories => Farkles and Gear General Section => Topic started by: tj189 on March 17, 2012, 07:50:28 AM
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I noticed Brock mention in another thread about a need shortly for some wet weather Gear. Sooo here we go to start the ball rolling.
This is what I am currently using:
http://www.froggtoggs.com/#outerwear/motorcycle/FT63132/ (http://www.froggtoggs.com/#outerwear/motorcycle/FT63132/) in the Hi Vis colour
http://www.froggtoggs.com/#outerwear/motorcycle/NTH85105/ (http://www.froggtoggs.com/#outerwear/motorcycle/NTH85105/)
Having been through a whole range of "waterproof" gear, I have found these to have been the most suitable for me. Would I get these again, yes.
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They look good :thumb does the top fit over your mc jacket?
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Do you carry a good wet weather over pant sort of thing, its the sort of thing I need every year, havent found anything yet that doesnt leak at the crotch.
Brock, I've been using the Naxsax wet weather pants for the last 12 months or thereabouts, and find them excellent. They zip down the sides and look a bit like a big nappy, and are very water proof.
Check 'em out - they're located over your way too.
http://www.naxsax.com.au/ (http://www.naxsax.com.au/)
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sure does, the trousers appear to be quiet big but if I had purchased smaller ones thy would have been a pain the the butt to put on. Two concerns are; there is a hood on the jacket that fits into the collar and it may be of concern to some if the helmet sits onto the collar, secondly the arms are not overly long so you would need to have gauntlet gloves.
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Thanks for the heads up mate :hatwave
I’ll have to check them out next time I upgrade my wet weather gear :thumb
Cheers
Shiney
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Been through heaps opf the stuff???????
Best bet :thumbsup get yourself off to one of them safety houses that have all the safety gear. Get yourself a pair of yellow safety pants 10 times too big and a jacket 10 times too big and it will probably set you back $30.00. And get the jacket that has a hood, that way you put the hood over the head and then the helmet on, and no bloody rain drops down the back of the neck :runyay
The reason you get the stuff 10 times too big, is its really easy and quick to get on over you bike gear with your jacket and boots still on :thumbs
Next stop off at one of them real cheap shops that has all the stuff and get your self one of them plastic tarps a few meters by a few meters and one of them collapsable umbrellas.
When its pissin down and you have to put your wet weather gear on. you do it under the tarp, and the umbrellas their to keep you dry while your sorting your gear out. My Tarp and little umbrella are in my tank bag and the bike always has wet weather gear in a pannier
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That’s some good ideas Terry :thumbs
I normally just get the wet weather pants and use my leather jacket but I have been thinking of getting the wet weather top too :thumb
I replace the pants from time to time as I always seem to rip them on something or (on other bikes I've had) melt them on the exhaust :fp
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Terry I agree. Probably the best set of wet weather gear I have ever owned was purchased from one of those places. Still have it in the pannier after three years. Gets a bit of work in the tropics and still doing well.
Got a quote to get a set of the stuff we get issued at work and it was $350 for the vortex stuff. The safety deal does a better job.
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I too use the el-cheapo safety plastic pants.
Never thought about getting the matching hoody :thumb
Unfortunately the last set of pants got melted on the exhaust of the Blackbird,
when I pushed down on the centre stand my shin brushed against the catalytic converters :cuss
That's the downside to plastic I guess.
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We bought two sets of an older version of this about 22 years ago when I had a CX500 Turbo. I think we paid about $15 to $20 a set and I still use the pants. The jacket is still ok but no longer needed.
I also have a yellow set supplied by a previous employer for working out side, never used them and not exactly my favourite colour.
http://www.rainbirdclothing.com.au/index.html?Action=Commerce2.Product&ID=19936569 (http://www.rainbirdclothing.com.au/index.html?Action=Commerce2.Product&ID=19936569)
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Having hopped around on one foot today with alternate boots off, climbing into my Dririder pants, I feel the urge to get a pair of those.
Pity they don't make a big enough waist for Brock!
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Bit wet today?
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Bit wet today?
Not too much, but hissing down now I'm home and dry :)
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:well :well :well :well
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Bit wet today?
Not too much, but hissing down now I'm home and dry :)
NOT MUCH !!!! Which way did you go home? Man we got hammered.
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I still use some old PVC pants that I bought back in the late 70s. Have some orange and black ones, elastic gone in the waist but an ocky strap holds them up. They keep on working, whereas some padded modern ones leakeafter a full day out in the rian.
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Bit wet today?
Not too much, but hissing down now I'm home and dry :)
NOT MUCH !!!! Which way did you go home? Man we got hammered.
Diesel and I went straight out to the highway, not being familiar with the Postman's Road. I went straight down the Warrego when I could see it was looking black towards Esk, so I can understand you guys getting a bit damp around the gills.
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I still use some old PVC pants that I bought back in the late 70s. Have some orange and black ones, elastic gone in the waist but an ocky strap holds them up. They keep on working, whereas some padded modern ones leakeafter a full day out in the rian.
Bottom of NSW real early 70's, going home on leave, I pulled into a servo, in the middle of the night and had a coffeee with another rider that was probably the age I am now???? When we were heading off and getting our gear on, he put a pair of those thick yellow pants on. I said what are they. He said their the best thing you can have. So when I gets home, I gets a pair off the old man who got em from work and I had em for bloody ages.
Paid the dollars for the so called Motorcycle wet eather gear but have always gone back to te Safety Shop stuff.
"Cause its better and it works" :thumbsup
Oh yeh! the old bloke also said to me where's your gloves. I says I don't wear em. He says your hands are the first thing that hits the ground when you come off :think1 So 9.00am in the morning, I'm in Albury getting my first pair from the bike shop :thumbsup. Never been on a bike without a pair on since :thumb
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It appears that Naxsax only make standard sizes.
nothing over 108cm :|||| need 117cm min.
I wish I was that skinny.
Tipsy
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Tipsy, you can try mine on at Blackheath. I've got the largest size, and I'm no midget :)
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:eek :eek :eek :eek
Peter, Are you really going to let Tipsy into your pants??? :grin :grin :grin
I hope some one takes photos...
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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:eek :eek :eek :eek
Peter, Are you really going to let Tipsy into your pants??? :grin :grin :grin
I hope some one takes photos...
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Amendment #1 "Tipsy, you can try mine on at Blackheath." Without me in 'em at the time
talk about reading between the lines :well :well :grin
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I have a pair of Naxsax but yet to use them in anger. I bought mine direct from the designer, I went to his house in Bunbury WA.
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Yeah, I get all emotional when it rains too; anger, frustration, etc. :crackup
Seriously though, I don't think you'll be disappointed...they're good gear
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For all those guys who have trouble getting their wet-weather pants on over their boots.
An old trick from Blighty:
Store your pants in a plastic bag.
When it rains, take pants out of bag, put bag on foot (over boot) and it slips through the pants like they've been greased.
Remove bag, repeat process on other leg.
I spent many years hopping about getting wet until an ex-UK motorbike cop put me in the know.
They're on in no time and no dreaded 'Sticky boot halfway down leg' dance.
FYI.
Dave R :wht13
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Winston66 :rd13 :hatwave :hatwave :runyay
When I was a kid in NZ, and riding my triumph tiger 500 twin to work every day the winter weather was so cold and wet, and all this fancy wet weather gear was not available, I could not have afforded it anyway, my way out of getting wet and cold was.
I purchased an ex ww2 army greatcoat from the army surplase shop and put it reversed over the seat with the split at the back down to the foot pegs, in use I would just lift it up by the colar, sit on the bike and then just drape it arround me,
the bottom of the coat hung down far enough to cover my shoes ,
They never got wet and during the day if it rained the coat covering the seat kept it perfectly dry.
This system worked for me for 3 or 4 years.
Cheers , winston66
:rd13 :hatwave :runyay :beer
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The plastic bags over your socks works well, and Dave's use of bags over your boots to get into your wet weather pants is a great idea and one I've used in the past too. That was after I put me foot through the side of a pair going to Cooma many years ago. I reckon they'd still be in the long grass beside the road :||||
That was the start of a very wet weekend, and to add insult to injury, I had a spill going down a wet splippery muddy road track to a mates property just out of Bega. Worse than that the bugger was on the other side of the gully laughin his head off :cuss
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+1 for cheap plastic rain gear!
If money was no object I'd like to sport myself some gore-tex riding gear, something from Tiger Angel or Aerostitch would do the trick. You'd save a bit of space by not having to carry your wet weather gear at all.
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Went for a trip down to Naxsax in Bunbury today, met the owner George a bike rider himself. :thumbs
he's off to to the Ulysses AGM in Mildura shortly, so if any of you guys are going there he will have the Naxsax there.
While Marg :-++ And I were enjoying a coffee George made for us we tried the Naxsax on. Marg's :-++ medium size fitted her well,
What she liked was the amount of room for her knees when she sat down, the Naxsax didn't ride up away from her boots at all, a
problem she hates with normal wet weather pants. >:(
I tried on the larger size ( being wellbuilt :eat 6' 105 kg ). They fitted, just' but were a bit tight around my sunken chest.
George said he can get them made larger in the waist, but it costs $40 dollars extra. They sew in a V section in each side of
the waist then heatseal the new seams, takes 3 days longer for the larger orders. So I ordered a large, 36 to 46 instead of the
normal large 32 to 42, he can get them done a lot larger than that if need be.
All in all the Naxsax seemed to be a nice bit of gear, Marg :-++ approved the the workmanship and design enough to get a
pair for herself, and my larger pair should arrive by post next week, well in time for my trip over East where I will surely need them. :grin :grin :grin
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Gents,
I read the various post about Naxsax, and am interested to hear the outcome of Tipsy trying Peter's pair on. I also saw the post from Mitch saying that they can be manufactured bigger. My problem is that I'm 6' 3" tall and have a 125cm waist (yes, I know, BIG!) so getting stuff like this seems to a very tedious business. Can someone let me know the outcome of the experiment, or can the people who make them make them big enough for me?
Cheers
Whizz
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I can get rain gear up to about the 150cm range in hi vis or navy depending on the colour you like through my shop