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Originally Posted by Munson
So I needed a new hobby, and decided to go with motorcycles!
I signed up for the new rider course next week.
Any recommendations on riding gear I should get, especially for summer time?
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If it's anything like the course I took when I started they wouldn't even let you get on a bike without boots that covered your ankles, gloves, a jacket, and a helmet. They didn't make you wear more than jeans for legs though, just needed to be covered.
I would recommend getting leather and not the textile stuff. There's a reason why professionals wear leather and its required for tracks. It sucks to wear during the peak days of summer but it wont melt away
if when you go down.
If you do get textile because its cheaper and not as hot to wear in the summer, at least get the shit that has reinforced armor for all the high impact areas.
And something to plug your ears. If you want to be legal then just get plugs. I started wearing in ear headphones under my helmet and listening to music, which is illegal in Illinois but **** it - cant hear shit but wind anyways, on a low enough volume that I could still hear cars if I needed to but kept my ears from bleeding because of wind noise, not literally but its way too ****ing loud and I dont care how quiet companies claim their helmets to be.