90% of the time i wear a leather jacket with separate leather trousers and during very wet irish trips i wear this jacket on top
http://www.infinitym.....nlined Jacket along with the matching trousers, not one droplet has ever got in, always use alpine stars leather goretex gloves both summer ones and winter ones, nothings ever got through the winter ones and it takes a lot of rainy riding for the summer ones to become damp, the package is completed with daytona voyager boots and again on long rainy days riding through europe not a droplet has got in, now that i've got my lidl thermals i reckon i'm ready for another british summer!!
Frank Thomas, *waterproofs*
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#41
tony_tony
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Posted 03 April 2008 - 10:35 pm
It can't rain all the time!
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Geordie Guy
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Posted 05 April 2008 - 08:18 am
I had a pair of Frank Thomas trousers, they were OK in lite rain but when I used them
in a full rain storm which lasted a few hours, I was sat in a puddle of water....
Found this out when I was going round Europe last year........
So I changed them for SPARDA and I've never had any problems.
cheers, Ivan
in a full rain storm which lasted a few hours, I was sat in a puddle of water....
Found this out when I was going round Europe last year........
So I changed them for SPARDA and I've never had any problems.
cheers, Ivan
I'm a TDM SNOB !!!! "Adventure before Dementia"
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Kawasaki GT550, XJ900 Diversion, 2002 TDM 900 , 2008 TDM 900a, 2010 TDM 900a.
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Posted 07 April 2008 - 05:29 pm
i tink Flank Tomatoes 'waterproof gear' is shoite, the only decent bit of kit i had off them wassa pair of Aqua Boots i perchased in 1991 and they were waterproof but their Aqua Packs were ferever leaking and i exchanged a few of them inna bid to keep the damp out.
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#44
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Posted 07 April 2008 - 06:15 pm
Bought a pair of Aqua Gloves towards the end of last winter and they are now falling apart.. Looks like the stiching is pulling through the material
Just glad I haven't binned it with these on
Won't be buying Frank's gear again
My Super Modded TDM has gone to a new home 
I'm now a carbon whore!
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