Highway robbery

I just got an email ad from Bike Bandit .com

One of the products on e first part of the page is a helmet for $809.00 !!!!!
That is $20. away from the price of a NASCAR pro helmet with head restraints and communications.

I think that they got e sport bike riders pegged as rich guys.

 

What you get with some of those pricy helmets is maybe somebody will mistake you for some famous fast guy so you can make up shit, unless of course, you are riding a step through with a milk crate strapped on with wire ties. Sometimes even then, you can BS a four year old or some bimbo. After that be prepared to make a quick and graceful exit.

If memory serves, some of those NASCAR lids are set up for AC too.

 

I paid the most for my latest lid. I kept having to say to myself that it was worth it. Kinda double what all my other Arais' cost. Money is kinda like an ephemiral thing, like conceptual. I can wear and look at that wicked evil helmet and its tangible. 600 bux for a lid, I would pay for it again. But then again, I did pay 200bux for some kangaroo skin gloves so you cant go by me. So in the end, buy what you can afford and what you wont hate looking at/enough dribble, cheers and keep the rubber side down.

 

You can get Tillman 24 CL pigskin gloves sewn together with kevlar at the welding store for $13. But they do not have the knuckle protectors.

 

Dah Tillman 24 CL sounds like something I would till my garden with. I bet you can't pick a dime of the table wit dem gloves on though. Everything is subjective you know. Anyway, if I bought an 800 dollar lid I would hope it would come with some sort of hot chicks phone number or at the very least some sort of way of busting my nut. Cheers and keep the shiny side up.

 

Actually the Tillman gloves are the best TIG gloves. Standard of the industry and you CAN pick up a dime with them.
If you didn't buy the $800 dollar helmet you would have at least $500.00 to get in trouble with.

 

Six hundred is a little short of the $800.00+. Now I'm wondering if your arithmetic is bad or you really like the cheap stuff and this is a coverup. Best to look around for those Held gloves with the kangaroo palms they are usually on sale at the bike shows they attend or even online for less that two hundred unless you are getting screwed for shipping and handling maybe even by the dudes who are moving Chinese made helmets on us.

Maybe you can get one of our OZ members to send you a kangaroo coin purse to match those gloves for the less ephemiral coin of the realm.

So do you know anyone really who doesn't keep the rubber side down on a bike? We should address this IMO, before the tire makers start in with shit like, "Keep the Dunlop side down."

 

Crash test them for us and then get back with the results.

I think what it really comes down to is if you feel your hide is worth something to you, you spend the cash to protect it, if you don't think you are worth a shit, then buy your gear at a welding store. Can't wait to see you sporting that welding mask as a helmet, priceless. As for Badbilly, you don't even need a helmet.

 

I do not like to spend that kind of money on gear, but I do. Most is worth it. I have been raped like a fresh prison inmate by Arai over the years , never happy aboot it , but it is what makes me all warm and fuzzy inside when I am worried aboot my life. Been in a bad crash or two over the years and quality gear is worth its weight in gold if your gonna kiss the asphalt. That is a stone cold fact.

 

All that safety shit is out the window. I am going for fashion. Just ordered one of these from the local Tillman dudes.

John Tillman Co. Products

Just call me Aluminum Man!


If Norcal dude knew half as much as the thought he did he would have looked on the Tillman site and found that they also make several levels of driving gloves. He ain't gonna do this but thier premium gloves are deerskin which again, if ya just look, have some interesting characteristics.

Moi? last couple of helmets have been AVG's. The last one was not made in Italy.

 

Hey Bad...Was just maybe saying that 600 was my comfort threshhold for spending mo-lah on a brain bucket, thats all. 800 is an arse raping in my opinion unless the helmet comes with one of them umbrella girls dressed up in the latest latex kink fashion. As far as buying them Held gloves goes, my first pair I bought at a mc show in the Javits center in NYC about 15 years ago. They served me very well while I road raced in sout FL, crashing and re-using them. I wanted a certain pair of gloves by them and bought them for what I thought was a decent price. My deerskin Lee Park gloves are starting to show their age ande I will be checking out the Tillman sight fer sure. Keeping the rubber side down? hmmmm. dont know where it originated kinda just like a salutation from the ghetto nation maybe....Cheers and keep the shiny side up. NO shamless plugs for Dunlop or Tombstone either.

 

The problem with this set-up is that the model sporting the aluminum doesn't have toe-sliders on his boots. Although it appears as if the model is wearing the right stuff to perhaps fashion a set. Throw in Speilberg style alien and a geiger counter and I'm sold.

 

For a few bucks more the outfit can be ordered with a flameproof price tag and a set of rabbit ears tuned to VFR World AM/FM playing."The Ballad of Evel Knevel" 24/7.

 

My Schuberth was over $700 I beleive, and that was for just basic black no fancy paint job even. I wanted the carbon version, at around $1400, but it wasn't imported into the US.

 

Does anybody think that this stuff is for real,


Helmet Performance: Blowing the Lid Off - Motorcyclist magazine


, or is the illusion of an apparently better protected head, for $200, $300 or $400 more worth the fashion statement, or even the gamble?

 

Some of the harleydoods in my hood would say the guy who wrote the article is gay for not mentioning those WWII lookalike Wermacht helmets that are chrome. Then again, how does one chrome plate plastic?

 

there have been tests that I have seen on gloves, but a few years back. THey tested expensive ones, cheap ones, all the way down to a pair of $10.00 cow hide work/garden gloves. The cow hide ones, more suitable for work, held up just as well as the expensive ones, and for a whole leot less. They may not have the padding, the cool metal armor, the venting, but for $10.00 I'm guessing some would suffer. SOmething is better than nothing.