Ladies Teknic Sevilla Motorcycle Jacket Just $64.99 At New Enough!

Yup… You did read the entry title correctly, New Enough has the following jackets on closeout at just

$64.99!

The review on the New Enough website says

The Women’s Sevilla jacket offers the features you would find in an expensive touring jacket, but at an affordable price (while closeout supplies last).

This would be a good choice for use in a wide range of weather conditions from cold and wet to warm and dry. The jacket offers waterproof construction by way of a mid-liner. Use of a mid-liner keeps water out effectively but the shell material of the jacket gets wet.

Although the jacket has some large vents the mid-liner won’t allow free flow of air all the way through the jacket to your skin so I wouldn’t rely on this jacket for the hottest weather conditions. For cooler weather, a full sleeve insulated liner is included.

The liner is relatively thick and should work quite well. One neat feature that this jacket has that would be handy for touring is the liner pouch. When not in use the liner can be folded into a pouch that can be worn as a fanny pack (nice when storage space is an issue).

This jacket also offers quality protection. The shoulders and elbows are equipped with removable CE approved armor, and a removable CE approved backpad is also included. For comfort, the jacket has adjustable sleeves, wrist closures and an adjustable waist.

The jacket features are as follows

600D Cordura outer shell construction

Anatomical pre-curved ladies sports cut

2 front zippered air vents with rear exhaust vent

100% waterproof and windproof Hydroguard liner

Airmesh lined collar with neoprene edge and front

Knox® CE approved armor in elbows and shoulders

Knox® CE approved back armor

Teknic hidden triple storm flap over front zipper

2 front pockets and 2 internal pockets

All zippers are genuine YKK zippers

8 inch zipper connector

5 oz Polyfil insulated zip-out full sleeve liner

Reflective 3M™ anthracite piping for night time visibility

Teknic Freestyle Textile Jacket – Just $59.99 From New Enough

The Teknic Freestyle Jacket is on closeout at New Enough for the absolutely amazing price of

$59.99!!!

At almost 75% off MSRP, these jackets are an absolute bargain!

The shoulders and elbows of the jacket have built-in heavy-duty “GP” type armour. The armour is comprised of a hard outer shell with softer padding underneath. This type armour is commonly used in racing suits. The lower back and kidneys are protected by an external back protector.

Nearly any rider could make good use of a jacket like this, and at this price, consider these for gifts, passenger gear or back-up gear.

Good grief, the armour system alone is worth the price!

Use the drop down menu on the product page to view the sizes and colours remaining. Most all sizes in five colours remain.

Just click on the photos to be taken to their site for more details.

The jacket features are as follows

• 600D soft touch Cordura® short jacket with 15º forward arm rotation

• Powerskin II™ waterproof/breathable Z liner

• Labyrinth waterproof entry system™

• Exterior Airblade™ shoulder system

• Exterior CE approved elbow armour and kidney belt

• Memory foam chest inserts

• Taffeta interior lining

• Underarm zipper vents, upper chest vents and rear exhaust vent for maximum airflow

• Zip-out polyfil quilted vest liner

• TASC (Teknic® advanced seam construction). Rows of hidden stitching providing maximum seam strength

• YKk® Japanese nylon zippers

• Airmesh-lined collar

• Soft neoprene edge collar

• Reflective 3M™ anthracite piping

• Adjustable arm cinch straps

• Snap adjustment waist belts, cuffs and collar

• 2 large cotton lined pockets with waterproof tri-fold entry

• 1 baseball cap pocket

• 1 interior mesh pocket

Track Day Taster Sessions – Just £20 A Pop

This is a ‘not to be missed offer’ if you fancy trying a track day and have never done one before. Motorsport Vision are offering Track Day taster sessions for just £20!!!!

The special offer ‘taster’ sessions available at Brands Hatch, Snetterton and Cadwell Park and, starting from Thursday 12th March, will give you the opportunity to experience the thrill of a track day without the expense of a full day on your first outing.

In exchange for your £20 you will get a full safety briefing, including circuit riding techniques, and is followed by a 20 minute session out on the track on your own bike.  The Track Day Organiser at MSV, Alex Baker, has said

”There are many people out there that would like to experience the thrill of taking their car or bike round a famous race track, but don’t want to commit to a full day’s experience at their first attempt. These taster events give those people the chance to try it for a remarkably low price.”

Click on the following links for each track to be taken to Motorsport Visions website where you will find more details

Brands Hatch Thursday 12 March From 4:30pm

Snetterton Wednesday 18 March From 5:00pm

Cadwell Park Saturday 21 March From 5:00pm

Snetterton Saturday 11 April All day

Save Up To £80 On HJC Helmets At M&P

How about this for a deal?

M & P practically giving away some of the HJC crash helmet range for the absolutely stunning price of £30!!!

Take a look at the chart below and you will see that you can save up to a MASSIVE £79 on the normal retail price.  The HJC helmets did quite well in the Sharp Helmet Safety Rating tests and are a perfect choice if you are shopping for your first helmet or just looking for a replacement in these cash strapped times.

The helmets which are being discounted include the following

The Eve helmet in both pink and purple,

The Myth helmet in black or blue

and the Session helmet in blue, black or red

To check out the details on the site just click on the item description in the chart below and it will take you straight to their website.  Don’t delay though as there is limited stock, and at these prices I very much doubt they will have them for long!

Part Number	Description	Size	Sale Price	SRP
226810	HJC CL-ST Mosaic Matt Graphic	XLarge	£30	£79
227387	HJC CL-ST Eve Helmet Purple	XSmall	£30	£79
227389	HJC CL-ST Eve Helmet Purple	Medium	£30	£79
227390	HJC CL-ST Eve Helmet Purple	Large	£30	£79
227391	HJC CL-ST Eve Helmet Pink	XSmall	£30	£79
227393	HJC CL-ST Eve Helmet Pink	Medium	£30	£79
808196	CS-12 SESSION RED MC1	XSmall	£30	£79
808200	CS-12 SESSION RED MC1	XLarge	£30	£79
808197	CS-12 SESSION RED MC1	Small	£30	£79
808198	CS-12 SESSION RED MC1	Medium	£30	£79
808199	CS-12 SESSION RED MC1	Large	£30	£79
218710	CS-12 Session Black MC-5	XSmall	£30	£79
218711	CS-12 Session Black MC-5	Small	£30	£79
218712	CS-12 Session Black MC-5	Medium	£30	£79
218709	CS-12 Session Blue MC-2	XLarge	£30	£79
218707	CS-12 Session Blue MC-2	Medium	£30	£79
218708	CS-12 Session Blue MC-2	Large	£30	£79
218713	CS-12 Session Black MC-5	Large	£30	£79
221167	CL-ST Myth Helmet Black	XLarge	£30	£119
221163	CL-ST Myth Helmet Black	XSmall	£30	£119
221162	CL-ST Myth Helmet Blue	XLarge	£30	£119
221161	CL-ST Myth Helmet Blue	Large	£30	£119
221160	CL-ST Myth Helmet Blue	Medium	£30	£119
221159	CL-ST Myth Helmet Blue	Small	£30	£119
221158	CL-ST Myth Helmet Blue	XSmall	£30	£119

Save £££’s On Helmets At Hein Gericke

As of 20th February and until the 1st March 2009 you can save up to £80 on the price of the new range of 2008/2009 helmets if you shop at Hein Gericke.  And not only are these discounts available instore you can also get them if you buy via mail order or from their online catalogue!

So have a look at the helmets they stock and you can save the following amounts on their listed prices

£100 – £200 = £20 DISCOUNT!

£200 – £400 = £40 DISCOUNT!

£400+ = £80 DISCOUNT!

The discounts are not available on previously discounted items, non stock items nor are they valid with any other offer but never the less they represent a big saving on the price of a new helmet.

So if you are in the market for a new helmet, maybe for the fast approaching riding season, it is definately worth looking either in one of their stores or at their online store

New Hein Gericke Catalogue Out Now

To help celebrate the launch of their new 2009 catalogue each Hein Gericke store is holding a special open day on Saturday 28th February where you can grab a copy of the new catalogue and possibly a whole lot more!!

There are several £1000 GOLD TICKETS hidden in catalogues around the country and if you are lucky enough to find one you can spend the £1000 on the HG stock item or items of your choice.  How cool is that?

PLUS…

If you take your old catalogue along with you and swap it for one of their lovely shiny new ones they will give you a fiver off any purchase over £30 on the day*!!

So if you are in the market for some new kit, pop into their stores and if you are really lucky you may just get it for free with the £1000 voucher!

For a full list of the New Catalogue Launch Promotions check out this link

Catalogue Launch Events

* valid against purchases of £30 and over, cannot be used on previously discounted items or in conjunction with any other offer.

HOT NEWS – New Motorcycle Test Implementation Date Changes

I was at one of my local bike shops, who also does training,  this morning and was reliably informed that the FINAL date for taking the old motorcycle test has been put back now until FRIDAY 24th APRIL.

Apparently this is to allow for the implementation of the new test to come in more smoothly!

So if you are looking at trying to take your motorcycle test before the new one comes into effect it now looks like you have a few extra weeks in which to take the old style test.

Ring your local training school now if you want to be in with a chance of getting your test booked before Friday April 24th, they are getting booked solid.

Bike Theft Foiled By Lucky(?) Breakdown

I just had to giggle about this piece of news that I came across today, talk about being glad that your motorbike broke down!

A certain gentleman called Mark Machae of Worcester went to have a look at a motorbike and after viewing the machine for a while asked if he could take it for a test ride as he definately wanted to buy it.  Like most sensible owners, the person selling the bike told him that he could provided he handed over the £1200 asking price.

Which he did, in a brown envelope!

Unfortunately the stash of £20 notes turned out to be photocopies and Mr Machae was in fact stealing the bike!

But all was not lost!

Luckily, or unluckily for Mr Machae, the bike broke down on the test ride and he was caught thanks to DNA evidence gained from a hair in a baseball cap, left at the scene of the theft, which forensic experts were able to match to Mr Machae.   Mr Machae was sentenced to 4 months in prison, suspended for 2 years as well as being subject to a drug rehab requirement and was also ordered to pay £300 compensation.

Most of us are less than happy if our bikes break down, but I can bet you anything you like the owner was VERY glad of this breakdown.

I know I would have been if someone was was trying to nick my bike!

If you are selling a motorbike and someone wants to have a test ride make sure you really check any cash handed over as you may unwittingly be the victim of a similar scam.  And you probably won’t be lucky enough to have your bike break down on the test ride.

Demand For Second Hand Motorcycles Is Up

The following bit of information is good news for the second hand bike market but bad news for those in the UK  looking to get a second hand motorbike at a bargain price during the recession.

Apparently a major motorcycle auction company has revealed that there is a lot of interest shown at their monthly auction sales from European buyers.  While this may benefit those selling a bike,  it will keep the prices up due to the increase in demand from Europe, as well as those looking to purchase a motorbike as a cheaper form of everyday transport.

As the Euro is so strong, when compared with the pound at the moment, these European buyers are looking to pick up high value perfomance sportbikes and tourers  cheaply here and export them to Europe.

You can find bikes at good prices out there, but you do have to hunt around for them.  Compared with last year there doesn’t even seem to be much of a difference in the prices on auction sites such as Ebay, to be honest.

More and more people are switching to motorcycles and scooters as a cheaper form of transport, especially with the downturn in the economy at the moment.  The current prices in the second hand motorbike market are reflecting this but if you are looking to swap from 4 wheels to 2, you can still find good bikes out there at good prices.  Just be prepared to look around a bit for them that little bit more.

EU Legislation Places Motorbikes In Harms Way! Cars Must Have Daytime Running Lights!

While researching the origins of the proposals to introduce the new motorcycle test, I came across some details of an EU legislation which comes into effect as of 7th February 2011, and which will undoubtedly result in an increase in motorcycle accidents and rider deaths. 

The ‘brainwave’ is that all new small delivery vans and cars MUST be fitted with Daytime Running Lights.  By August 2012 ALL new vehicles, including lorry’s and buses, will have to be fitted with them. 

In other words cars and vans will be running round with lights on all the time as the EU believes,

The DRLs will greatly increase the visibility of motor vehicles to other road users.

and they believe it will improve road safety!

And when I saw that phrase I can honestly say my reaction was “WTF!!!  What about motorbikes running with lights on to make US more visible?”

This EU legislation will put motorcyclists in danger as we, with our smaller profile, will become even more invisible than we are now as the EU believes they need to make LARGER vehicles more visible to each other! Like they aren’t visible enough already, it must take a complete numpty not to see a lorry or a bus!!!

Britain did oppose the directive but, because of majority voting by European transport ministers, was unable to prevent the approval of the legislation.

The UK’s Transport Minister at the time of the early EU discussions on the matter, Stephen Ladyman, said

This directive will kill a lot of motorcyclists. They use daytime lights to make them easier to see, but if cars are using them as well, motorbikes will just blur into the background

And the UK Motorcycle Action Groups president, Ian Mutch, added this,

This is EU lunacy at its cynical worst and a red herring that distracts attention from the real causes of accidents between cars and vulnerable targets, such as motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians.

I can’t quite believe this!  The EU introduces changes to the UK motorcycle test to make us better riders, and to try and reduce motorcycle accidents and fatalities, and then introduces legislation which will help to make us even more invisible out on the roads!

Are these guys living on the same planet as the rest of us?

Are they thinking straight, in fact are they thinking at all? 

Where the heck is the logic in their decision?

Is there any logic? 

I really have no idea!

Have a think about this.. How many times do you hear a car driver in an accident say to the other vehicles driver “Sorry mate, I didn’t see you!”.  I bet you any money you like, you won’t hear it said any where near as many times as motorcyclists hear it!!

Please feel free to add a comment to this, I would LOVE to hear what you think about it!

Sources

Europe Mandates Daytime Running Lights From 2011. HA EU Watch

The EU and You: How The EU Affects Everyday Life In The UK, (page12). openeurope.org.