Ever just thrown part of your gear away?

[P.]

Today the M20 got a lovely present, a set of Oxford Bone Dry muffs.

Fuck Oxford, they have cheap shit stuff... The muffs, put on with their actual directions...caused my killswitch to get flicked about 5 times, then they rubbed my light switch and turned those off at 70 in the outside lane... then proceeded to flick my full beam on and off.

Eventually pulled over, undid them and threw them on the floor. Then fucked off home.

I have cold hands, but I couldn't give a shit.

Anything else piss you off so much you decided to just get rid.

[Polarbear]

My first wife. However you certainly couldn't call her cheap. (shit, yes but not cheap!)
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[stonesie]

Strangely, a pair of Oxford bone dry gloves they were no more dry than my very lightweight HG summer gloves so I continued home in those and went to buy some HG Pantheons the next day... Those have never let a drop through.


Also My first textile jacket was a Oxford bone dry... which leaked like a sieve and was replaced with a HG one, which has never let a drop through. That didnt get left at the side of the road though




sensing a slight theme here

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[kawakid]

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[Fifteen15]

[nowhere.elysium]

No, but I've gotten pretty damn close. I'm currently struggling to get my new Foggy mask to stop my glasses and lid from steaming up. I think I'm just going to have to shell out for a pinlock at the bike show.

In a related question; my glasses have got polycarbonate lenses. D'you reckon that Hein Gericke's anti-misting treatment will be safe on them?
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[kawakid]

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[CarlosCBR]

My Oxford Bone dry trousers got binned a week after buying them as they were about as waterproof as a pile of flour and the seams in the crotch split wide open (this probably made them MORE waterproof).

Anyone had a pair of the boots? Then we can have a complete set of shit waterproof kit
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[Dean-J]

Cant believe people are getting shitty because you threw a set of muffs away instead of taking them home.

Get a grip people!

He was simply leaving them there to make nice warm coats for hedgehogs!

[Mrjoolz]

Where abouts are they paddy, and I will collect on the way home and try them on my bike.
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[Mrjoolz]

haha, only joking, I wont be finding those in the dark

Would like to try some though, to see if they do improve riding in on my bike.

Do you mean just before the start of Wrotham hill ?
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[P.]

Around there yes, heading back to Maidstone

[Dazbo666]

My vote goes to those "Foggy" breath guard inserts..
https://www.earnshaws.net/prodimages/foggy001a.jpg
Not exactly thrown away, but I'd tried a number of test fits into my previous lid while at home, and I couldn't find any way for it to be comfortable once the lid was on, so it never even made its way outdoors
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[Glenben92]

Sorry to steal the thread, but I've had my fingers almost fucking fall off on the commute to work the past few days. I set off at 5am as I have early starts, so it's been around the -2 sorta temps. I want to invest in something to keep my digits from falling off, but I'm not sure whether to go for heated grips or bar muffs... opinions?
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[fatpies]

One of those stupid helmet skirts which is supposed to stay on from friction on the neoprene bit.

Stayed on for about 20 minutes before comming off.

When it did stay on it was very quiet. Except it would cause the visor to fog up. Which meant you had to open the visor to see. Which defeated the whole point of the helmet skirt!

One long bike trek to Langar.... I put it on but then had to go inside to get some stuff and it came off. Cue ten minutes trying to get it back on.

Then riding down to get some petrol it came off when I took the helmet off. Then down the A1 it came off three times.

I stuffed it into a pocket and it has never seen the light of day since.
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[stinkwheel]

My first pinlock insert got jettisoned somewhere on the inside lane of the A1 for being steamed up and for having gotten water under it about half an hour after leaving (having been fitted by the guy I bought it off at the arai service centre before you say it was fitted wrong).

Several sets of those "mini" indicators with the tiny little 21W bulbs have been kicked/snapped/ripped off the bike and thrown a goodly distance.

The "Waterproof, breatheable glove lining" from a set of Richa waterproof gloves which became none of the three the first time it rained and impossable to put back on again.

Two of those v-wipe things for being useless (came in a pack of two).

The left hand mirror on my 125 superdream for persistantly refusing to stay done up and swinging itself across in my way. This one was also disposed of "on the fly".

An oxford and an Akito rainsuit have both been dumped in a roadside bin for being worse than nothing.

Oh. And the "waterproof" covers from my oxford panniers although I let the bike ditch these itself by winding the throttle open until they exploded into a million bits. I took the remains of the elastic off once I got home.
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[bassmastergen...]

An LG mobile phone, which I class as riding gear because riding is the only time I carry one. Thrown high and far and then subjected to an old-school punk rock pogoing attack when it failed leaving me with a three mile walk to a pub in order to summon Carole Nash breakdown...

I replaced it with a Nokia one from Asda for £10 which was much better.

[jimbothe]

I left a Virago on the side of the road for six days when I ran out of fuel.


I only went back for it because it sold on ebay.
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[Noxious89123]

HG Pathan 3 fingered gloves, thrown away on the Fosse Way. If anyone finds them, I want them back! Bloody bag came open whilst riding and lost them. (Got another pair now though).
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