Get yer kit off you pulled!

Knee sliders? Surely for most bikers a needless accessory. Of course in my youth the concept of getting your knee down didn't exist. Racers were beginning to hang off the bike but tyre technology wouldn't permit the lean angles achievable now. In those days if I got my knee down it was rapidly followed by my arse, head and other delicate parts of my anatomy. Which brings me to................


Clothing (biker fashion).
Ok hands up, who wore a waxed jacket back in the day? Did you consider yourself fashionable, trendy, atractive to women? If you thought any of those things I am here to tell you you are delusional. In fact all specialist clothing available to bikers was designed to render the wearer an outcast. Even the now chic leather jacket was subverted by the Hells Angel set, if it wasn't distressed, dirty and pungent it wasn't for the likes of us purist bikers. Most bikers of my vintage rode their bikes in all weathers. The roads were more polluted and infrequently cleaned. Bike maintenance was performed in a 'just in time', 'side of the road' way meaning the jacket performed as an oily rag in times of extremis. My waxed jacket was never, ever cleaned, there was no way of cleaning it that did not threaten to destroy it's meagre water repellant properties. The outcome of this low maintenance regime, resulted in a garment that would provide a very productive archeological dig, it would not however attract women.

Steve proving that even desirable men look shit in biking gear.