How much did your riding gear cost you ?

[hornetmike]

Went to meeting today showing us some riding gear we are going to sale, it was high end stuff with some clever techonolgy, but it was around a £1000 a suit. My first 4 bikes didnt cost that.

My gear is mostly RST and cost £200 for suit, just wondering how much others spend.

£100 JAcket RST Razor
£100 Trousers RST Razor
£150 Helmet Shart RSI
£150 Alphinestar smx boots
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[Gerrard]

At a guess about 2,500 quids worth.. it soon addds up.
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[chillyman0]

£100 wolf jacket
£50 lewis trousers
£30 used Puma boots (best boots ive ever owned)
£60 Held 3 finger gloves
£300 Shoei xr1100 helmet

Plus leathers but its about time to put those away for the season
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[whitedevil]

About £1500 and that was sale prices.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Helmet (Caberg V2), £100
Textile jacket, car boot sale, £15
Leather jacket, car boot sale, £35
Textile trousers, NEC show, £45
Summer gloves, long gone bike shop, £10
Winter gloves, long gone bike shop, £10
Waterproof overtrousers, long gone bike shop, £20
Boots, Lidl, £15

So about £250. Need new boots, would like a new leather jacket.
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[N cee thirty]

lid-£70
jacket- £70
textile trousers -£50
gloves-£20


proper boots is next on the list
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[steven_191]

I paid £860 first lot

BKS silverstone two piece
BKS quantum boots
BKS glove that went with the suit
Vemar helmet
BKS base layer

(I was at a BKS stand). This was about 40% less than the shelf price.

£100 for some draggin jeans (twice)

£130 for some new more comfortable alpinestar boots

With the gear saving my life I'm willing to spend a lot. I haggle for the price of the bike though.

[The Artist]

£20 helmet
£20 jacket
£30 gloves

[Quornholio]

£80 Nitro lid - Online
£100 Alpinestars Textile Jacket - Local bike shop in sale
£400 HG Two Piece (Long gone now)
£30 Textile Jeans - Forum
£120 Alpinestars SMX Boots - Hein Gericke 5 years ago
£50 Hein Gericke Summer Gloves (Need new ones, poor stitching)
£30 Spada Winter Gloves - Online

Next on the list is probably a 1 piece.

[Andy J]

£80 helmet...

Rest I'm still borrowing off my mates dad

[pinkyfloyd]

Lid - £90
Leather jacket - £100
Leather trousers - £65
Boots - £70 (but reduced from £189, bargian)
Textile jacket - £50
Textile bottoms - £50
Gloves - £25
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[Benson_JV]

My grandparents bought me about a grands worth of gear to begin with.
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[WannaBeDude]

Hg Gortex Tricky boots 30 quid - used
HG Gortex Gloves 15 quid - used
HG Textile Jacket 17 quid - used
HJC Helmet 2 quid - used !
Caberg Justisimo flip 40 quid - as new
Carberg open face 20 quid - as new
Kevlar jeans 40 quid - new
Funky textile armoured jacket 50 quid - new
Textile winter trousers 40 quid - new
Lidl liver belt and overgloves 10 quid - new
Gortex awesome neck thing 5 quid - new
Leather non biking jacket retro FREE - used

[Moo.]

Helmet - HJC - £150
Jackets - Triumph/Hein Goretex £50/£20
Trousers - Dads old ones
Gloves - Triumph/Hein Goretex £40/£10
Boots - Hein Gericke - £100

Thats for hot and cold climates, wouldnt spend £1000 on stuff though by bike only cost £250...
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[Nope.]

RST Razor Leather Jacket: £180
RST Razor Leather Jeans: £130
RST Trach Tech Gloves: £70
Spada Winter Gloves: £45

Second hand Sidi Touring boots: £30
Alpinestars S-MX R Boots £175

HJC IS-Max Flip Face: £150
Arai Tour X3: £160


All in all: £940
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[Jayy]

RST 2 Piece £300 (Fucked)
HJC Lid £150
Sidi Boots £300

Need some new gloves and was thinking about getting my leathers fixed but for nearly £150 to fix them, I might as well buy a new suit but not probably closer to summer.

[Acemastr]

Helmet - HJC R-Pha 10 - £300
Leathers - RST Tractech - £400
Boots - Sidi Vertex - £60 (second hand)
Gloves - Spada Predator - £55
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[Shaft]

Winter lid, Shoei Raid, about £200
Summer lid, Simpson Bandit, about £450
Gloves, no idea who they're made by, bought them in a rush, £30
Leather jacket, bought on the last day of a show, £70
Waterproof textile jacket, £20
Winter boots, Sidi MX, probably about £200 to replace (mine are 20 odd years old)
Summer boots, hi top style trainer work boots with steel toes, £11
Jeans, whatever I've got at the time.

Did have a set of leathers made in 1987, to my own design, but they don't fit anymore, think they were £300 then.
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[WannaBeDude]

Summer gear, random leather gloves, crocs and Y fronts FTW

[Redoko]

Too much.

But then again. You're worth it.

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[zest]

Yep.
I suppose a good bit of hard earned cash.

I tend to rely on the smaller British manufacturers these days.

I am not easily seduced by the big Brands.
So much big brand stuff made in China these days.
Seems the bigger they get, the cheaper quality mass produced stuff they flood the market with.
And of course the bigger they get the more they can pay the top sports guys to wear their gear. An excellent marketing technique, I think.

I always buy gear made of real cow hide leather. Except for the oversuit.

At a guess total £600.

[Knot600RR]

I really don't want to think about how much I've spent on gear over the years....

[Fairies attack]

No idea:

Helmet: Present - Nitro
Gloves: Present - Nitro
Trousers: Acquired - Akito
Jacket: Present - Spada
Boots: Present - AlpineStars

[WannaBeDude]

[Fifteen15]

RST Razor textile jacket - £105
RST Razor leather trousers - £120
RST Traktech WP gloves - £50
TCX S-Zero boots - £120
Takai BZ-1 helmet - £60 (wish I spent skimp on this)

= £455
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