Motorcycle Gear Guides & Reviews

So this is our third video about the kind of casual riding gear you can get for a given sum of money. The idea originally came out of a series of videos we did about commuting outfits, and so we’ve taken the same thinking and applied it to what one might term cool outfits.

A large contributor to riding safely is being comfortable on the bike. That means not shivering from the cold, not feeling distracted by large wet patches and streams of rain running down your back, and not overheating.

The Coronavirus will impact on the lives of so many people in so many ways. Indeed, it has done already. Which may explain why, in recent weeks, we have had so many requests from people about commuting; people who often haven’t commuted before. And this makes sense if you want to go into work without using public transport. Recently, we’ve created a series of videos where we have recommended different commuting outfits at different price points.

As we did with commuting outfits, we’ve put together what one might term ‘cool’ outfits for a given amount of money. Now, we’ve already gone down this road once with a budget of £1,000; and that bought us a Halvarssons leather jacket, some Spidi jeans.

Now, this video is going out on the afternoon of Sunday, 14th. June. And tomorrow, Monday, we’ll be opening our doors to customers again after a break of some 12 weeks. Now that might seem like a cause for celebration, and in some ways it is. We are genuinely looking forward to meeting up with some of our old friends. And to making new ones.

This is the fourth in our series about the kind of commuting/touring outfit you can get for a given budget. Kicked off by requests from people who thought they might want to commute on a motorcycle after Lockdown, our first video worked on a budget of £1000. We then upped the ante to £1500. For the third video, we raised the budget to £2500 and, for this particular video, however, there is literally no budget; the sky’s the limit.

There is no such thing as the perfect motorcycle glove, and every experienced motorcyclist eventually comes to realise that they’re going to need different gloves for different times of the year and for different types of riding.

Even though we haven’t sent out the final review yet, we recently put together a series of videos outlining what kind of commuting outfit you could get for a given amount of money. We started off with a thousand pounds, then moved up to £1,500, then £2500. The final in the series shows what you can get if you’ve got ‘loadsa money’.

Now this is the third in our series of video reviews of outfits that can be put together for a certain budget. The idea came from people contacting us, suggesting that they might want to commute into work on a motorcycle after the Lockdown.

Now, a week or so ago, we put together an outfit for a thousand pounds, in response to requests from potential customers who were contemplating commuting into work after the Lockdown, in order to avoid using public transport.

We actually made this video a couple of years ago for a bit of fun. We made it to a particular sound track; namely Linda Lyndell’s classic soul track ‘What a Man‘. It worked really well, but the music rights cost so much that we had to stop using the video after six months.

We recently released a video review of the latest EN17092 CE regulations. The detail of the legislation is pretty dull, but the new law has implications for bikers, and so we felt it was important to tell people a wee bit about it.

The Coronavirus will impact on the lives of so many people in so many ways. Indeed, it has done already. Which may explain why, in recent weeks, we have had so many requests from people about commuting; people who often haven’t commuted before.

In this video, Chris takes us on a quick tour of Motolegends HQ to show everybody how we are operating during the Lockdown.

For many motorcyclists these days, the go-to option when it comes to a riding trouser is a pair of denim-style, protective jeans. They’ve got that all-important McQueen/ Brando/ Dean factor.

Not everybody washes their motorcycle gear. And quite a few of those who do, don’t know how to do it properly. Which is why Chris has put together this short video showing how it should be done.

Not that many weeks ago we did a review of summer gloves. But that was a review of what we would term proper summer gloves; that is to say the kind of gloves you would wear on the very warmest, and totally dry, days.

Now everybody has heard about base-layers and layering, but most bikers think that they only really apply to mountaineers or to those who ride huge mileages in extreme conditions. Most don’t realise that when they wear a technical outfit with a membrane they prevent it from functioning as it’s supposed to when they fail to wear the correct gear beneath it.

Okay, the first thing we have to do is apologise for the length of this review; it’s a bit of a monster. In fact, Alfred Hitchcock released more than one film that was shorter than our review. He once stated that a film’s length should be no more than the endurance of the audience’s bladder, so if you’re interested in summer bike jackets, you should perhaps pop to the loo now.

The Belstaff Trialmaster is one of the most famous of all motorcycle jacket styles. Perhaps only the Schott Perfecto has a longer history. The full-length, four-pocket, wax cotton jacket was introduced only after the war and, in all likelihood, it was Barbour who actually invented the style.