Roo

[agcstoat]

Pootled down to Exmouth this morning to be measured up by the nice people at BKS. I am now waiting for a 2-piece SPS (touring) suit in black Kangaroo leather.
The quality of construction of their leathers has to be seen to be appreciated - well worth the money - and very safe, if the local Plod are to anything to go by...

Not quite sure why I was specific about the colour, since all bike leathers are black by default.

 

[polecat]

Pootled down to Exmouth this morning to be measured up by the nice people at BKS. I am now waiting for a 2-piece SPS (touring) suit in black Kangaroo leather.
The quality of construction of their leathers has to be seen to be appreciated - well worth the money - and very safe, if the local Plod are to anything to go by...

Not quite sure why I was specific about the colour, since all bike leathers are black by default.

I bet it looked better on the kangaroo than it will on you.

 

[Big Si]

Pootled down to Exmouth this morning to be measured up by the nice people at BKS. I am now waiting for a 2-piece SPS (touring) suit in black Kangaroo leather.
The quality of construction of their leathers has to be seen to be appreciated - well worth the money - and very safe, if the local Plod are to anything to go by...

Not quite sure why I was specific about the colour, since all bike leathers are black by default.

I thought Kangaroos were a sort of beige colour?

Is this new black kangaroo the result of some cruel experimental breeding programme?

 

[agcstoat]

I bet it looked better on the kangaroo than it will on you.

Oh, I dunno - I look quite dashing in my gimp suit...

 

[agcstoat]

I thought Kangaroos were a sort of beige colour?

Silly man - they dye them first!

 

[sanqhar]

BKS

I bought a BKS two piece suit back in 1993 and have put about 150,000 miles on it. A few years ago I bought an ex prototype Goretex textile jacket at the NEC (I'm about the same size as Brian Sansom for whom it was originally measured) and that has been brilliant as well. I got them to change the zip together zips on my original suit so the original leather trousers zip to the new textile jacket as well as the original leather jacket (their zips had changed in the 10 years between buying the original suit and buying the jacket).

I used to commute approx 60 miles a day summer and winter as well as holidays etc.

I have been retired about 4 years and now do under 2,000 miles a year. When I put the suit on it's still like a second skin and I can walk around all day in it.

I would heartily recommend them. If you can afford it, buy it.

tom

 

[Glyno]

Silly man - they kill them first!

Fixed it for yer

 

[travelman]

it'll probably make it easier to just HOP on your bike for a quick spin than before.

 

[Paul Young]

Is this new black kangaroo the result of some cruel experimental breeding programme?

Darth Skippy...?

 

[GSTourer]

Why are you all being so Rood, are you all just kangaroo wallabe's ????