Fully kitted up

[Incorrigible]

Just been to Guildford to get my leathers back from being altered

Quite pricy £160 but apparently the armour in my particular leathers is a bit of a pain, I had the thighs and the claves shortened and taken in and the leather behind the knee replaced with stretchy stuff

First impressions excellent (only done 20 miles though) huge improvement

The company is "nine lives" 01483 454441 reccomended

[Steve_T]

Let the track day season commence! BTW do they just alter leathers, or do they do custom suits too?

[fergus]

Debbie @ Leather workshop (google it) will alter an off the peg suit to fit like a custom suit. Highly recommended. She does most of the work for the magazine guys and also for a lot of national and intl. racers!

[Incorrigible]

Fergus, I tried her after you reccomended her, couldn't get through this other place was reccomended by the people I got the bike from

Steve, I think they do custom suits, dunno, give then a ring.

[fergus]

Beware that to acheive an off the peg look (i.e. loads of overlaid colurs, stripes, etc) on a custom suit can get very expensive very quickly. This is why most custom suits often appear quite plain in their design! Feel the differnce in weight and you can see that custom suits often offer superior protection. Weight isn't obviously the only factor here though!

[Incorrigible]

fergus said:

Beware that to acheive an off the peg look (i.e. loads of overlaid colurs, stripes, etc) on a custom suit can get very expensive very quickly. This is why most custom suits often appear quite plain in their design! Feel the differnce in weight and you can see that custom suits often offer superior protection. Weight isn't obviously the only factor here though!

OTOH find an off the peg suit in a sale with a jacket that fits (well it used to) and trousers a bit too bit (long) and get them altered might work out OK, mine have got all the armourlite inserts in which I reckon should be pretty good for road riding, I'm not expecting too many offs on the track either (call me a big puff if you like)

[fergus]

Mate!

I'm not going to call anyone a puff, as they might batter me. Each to their own anyway!

PS what does OTOH mean (BTW)?

[Incorrigible]

fergus said:

I'm not going to call anyone a puff, as they might batter me. Each to their own anyway! PS what does OTOH mean (BTW)?

let's just hope I don't need to find out how good the protection is

OTOH = on the other hand IYKWIM

[Mad Dave]

Good stuff Incorrigible - im fully kitted out now too - ended up buying the Hein Gericke 'tribal Evo' 2-piece design suit + hein Gericke gore sport gloves. I look incredibly stupid in them as im tall and thin, and the tight fitting nature of the suit accentuates this!! LOL

[a j]

fergus said:

Debbie @ Leather workshop (google it) will alter an off the peg suit to fit like a custom suit. Highly recommended. She does most of the work for the magazine guys and also for a lot of national and intl. racers!

Is she the lady thats works out of Frontiers on a Saturday? If so she quoted to alter my leathers for £80. Which was to put a different collar on and shorten the cuff lengh i didnt think was too bad? I have heard nine lives are a little on the expensive side, shame as i live in Guildford.

[tizer2000uk]

Nine lives are a bit pricey but will do a professional job, their custom suits are damn amazing and the quality will outshine any off the peg stuff by quite a margin!

[TonyOut]

Try Crowtree, they are awesome and will do a fully armoured made to measure suit designed exactly as you want for £800 (Made to measure starts at £440, but I wanted extras).

You get to choose the colours, everything.